A Retrospect of the Religious Life of England: Or, the Church, Puritanism, and Free Inquiry

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Trübner & Company, 1876 - 372 Seiten

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Seite 24 - ALTHOUGH in the visible Church the evil be ever mingled with the good, and sometimes the evil have chief authority in the ministration of the Word and Sacraments ; yet forasmuch as they do not the same in their own name, but in Christ's...
Seite 263 - But, above all, he excelled in prayer. The inwardness and weight of his spirit, the reverence and solemnity of his address and behaviour, and the fewness and fulness of his words, have often struck even strangers with admiration, as they used to reach others with consolation. The most awful, living, reverent frame I ever felt or beheld, I must say, was his in prayer.
Seite 100 - For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
Seite 23 - ... unfeigned assent and consent to the use of all things in the said book contained and prescribed, in these words and no other : — " I, AB, do here declare my unfeigned assent and consent to all and everything contained and prescribed in and by the book intituled the Book of Common Prayer...
Seite 187 - Oft listening how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn, From the side of some hoar hill, Through the high wood echoing shrill.
Seite 24 - The visible church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Seite 33 - VIII. cap. 14.] commonly known by the name of the bloody statute, or the statute of the six articles ; it was entitled, An act for abolishing Diversity of Opinions in certain Articles concerning Christian Religion.
Seite 136 - A toleration is the grand design of the devil — his masterpiece, and chief engine he works by at this time, to uphold his tottering kingdom. It is the most compendious, ready, sure way to destroy all religion, lay all waste, and bring in all evil. It is a most transcendent, catholic, and fundamental evil for this kingdom of any that can be imagined.
Seite 268 - Anima Mundi: or an historical narration of the opinions of the ancients concerning man's soul after this life: according to unenlightened nature.
Seite 57 - RELIGION which only concern the confession of the true Christian faith and the doctrine of the Sacraments...

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