Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, Volume 1J. Miller, 1809 |
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... 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 to be no ministers , and shortly ...
... 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 to be no ministers , and shortly ...
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... better lighted , than by those luminaries that God hath set up to shine to us far nearer hand . And what reformation he wrought for his own time , it will not be amiss to consider ; he appointed certain times for fasts and feasts ...
... better lighted , than by those luminaries that God hath set up to shine to us far nearer hand . And what reformation he wrought for his own time , it will not be amiss to consider ; he appointed certain times for fasts and feasts ...
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... better clothes : her chaste and modest vail , surrounded with celestial beams , they overlaid with wanton tresses , and in a flaring tire bespeckled her with all the gaudy allurements of a whore . Thus flourished the church with ...
... better clothes : her chaste and modest vail , surrounded with celestial beams , they overlaid with wanton tresses , and in a flaring tire bespeckled her with all the gaudy allurements of a whore . Thus flourished the church with ...
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... better account of their reading , than by divulging needless tractates stuff- ed with specious names of Ignatius and Polycarpus ; with fragments of old martyrologies and legends , to distract and stagger the multitude of credulous ...
... better account of their reading , than by divulging needless tractates stuff- ed with specious names of Ignatius and Polycarpus ; with fragments of old martyrologies and legends , to distract and stagger the multitude of credulous ...
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... such as they had gathered from the Bible . " Since therefore , antiquity itself hath turned over the controversy to that sovereign book which we had fondly straggled from , we shall do better not to detain 40 Of Prelatical Episcopacy .
... such as they had gathered from the Bible . " Since therefore , antiquity itself hath turned over the controversy to that sovereign book which we had fondly straggled from , we shall do better not to detain 40 Of Prelatical Episcopacy .
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