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Popular passages
Page 162 - Take heed to yourselves, and to the whole flock, wherein the Holy Ghost hath placed you bishops, to rule the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Page 148 - And if any of the Bread and Wine remain unconsecrated, the Curate shall have it to his own use: but if any remain of that which was consecrated, it shall not be carried out of the Church, but the Priest and such other of the Communicants as he shall then call unto him., shall, immediately after the Blessing, reverently eat and drink the same.
Page 156 - ... so that laity and clergy, learned and unlearned, all ages, sects, and degrees of men, women, and children, of whole Christendom (a horrible and most dreadful thing to think), have been at once drowned in abominable idolatry, of all other vices most detested of God and most damnable to man, and that by the space of eight hundred years and more...
Page 3 - Church, and split by the divorce of antagonistic wills? He who holds not this unity, holds not the law of God, holds not the faith of Father and Son, holds not the truth unto salvation.
Page 161 - Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it, and to thee I will give the keys of the kingdom of heaven'?
Page 359 - ... contented with a little ardour in the early time of life; active, perhaps, to pursue, but not so fit to weigh and revise. He that would make a real progress in knowledge must dedicate his age as, well as youth, the later growth as well as first fruits, at the altar of Truth1." These words were written by a man who had spent the best years of his life in work of practical philanthropy. We cannot say of Berkeley, as we might of Aristotle or of Spinoza, that for him knowledge constituted the sole...
Page 163 - If you answer, that the church of Rome is not of God, but a malignant church ; then it will follow, that we, the inhabitants of this realm, have not as yet received any benefit of Christ; seeing we have received no gospel, or other doctrine, nor no other sacraments, but what was sent unto us from the church of Rome.
Page 54 - Canterbury, had been guilty of rebellion, contumacy, and treason, that his bones should be publicly burnt, to admonish the living of their duty by the punishment of the dead ; and that the offerings which had been made at his shrine, the personal property of the reputed saint, should be forfeited to the crown.
Page 127 - That if the king's grace, being supreme head of the Church of England, did choose, denominate, and elect any layman (being learned) to be a bishop ; that he, so chosen (without mention made of any orders) should be as good a bishop as he is, or the best in England."!
Page 55 - ... by the Bishop of Rome as the champion of his usurped authority, the King's Majesty thought it expedient to declare to his loving subjects that he was no saint, but rather a rebel and traitor to his Prince, and therefore strictly charged and commanded that he should not be esteemed or called a saint ; that all images and pictures of him should be destroyed, the festivals in his honour be abolished, and his name and remembrance be erased out of all...