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As success therefore declared for the parliamentary forces , the opposition to the hierarchy increased in - vio . lence ; and the prelates themselves , by their want 1 1 > of discretion , hastened their own fall . xxvi INTRODUCTION .
As success therefore declared for the parliamentary forces , the opposition to the hierarchy increased in - vio . lence ; and the prelates themselves , by their want 1 1 > of discretion , hastened their own fall . xxvi INTRODUCTION .
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... at which all the succeeding reformers more effectually lighted their tapers , was to his countrymen but a short blaze , soon damped and stifled by the pope and prelates for six or seven kinge reigns ; yet methinks the precedency ...
... at which all the succeeding reformers more effectually lighted their tapers , was to his countrymen but a short blaze , soon damped and stifled by the pope and prelates for six or seven kinge reigns ; yet methinks the precedency ...
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ing at rovers ; in this we are no better than a schism from all the reformation , and a sore scandal to them : for while we hold ordination to belong only to bishops , as our prelates do , we must of necessity hold also their ministers ...
ing at rovers ; in this we are no better than a schism from all the reformation , and a sore scandal to them : for while we hold ordination to belong only to bishops , as our prelates do , we must of necessity hold also their ministers ...
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... projects : but if a toleration for mass were to be begged of the king for his sister Mary , lest Charles the Fifth should be angry ; who but the grave prelates , Cranmer and Ridley , ' must be sent to extort it from the young king ?
... projects : but if a toleration for mass were to be begged of the king for his sister Mary , lest Charles the Fifth should be angry ; who but the grave prelates , Cranmer and Ridley , ' must be sent to extort it from the young king ?
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those halting and timeserving prelates , that after much bold importunity , they went their way not without shame and tears . Nor was this the first time that they discovered to be followers of this world ; for when the protector's ...
those halting and timeserving prelates , that after much bold importunity , they went their way not without shame and tears . Nor was this the first time that they discovered to be followers of this world ; for when the protector's ...
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| Title | Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, Volume 1 Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, George Burnett |
| Author | John Milton |
| Translated by | George Burnett |
| Publisher | J. Miller, 1809 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 15 Feb 2019 |
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