The supremacy question, or, Justice to the Church of EnglandFrancis and John Rivington, 1847 - 80 pages |
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Page 54 - For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts.
Page 39 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth ; I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Page 77 - These canons, being a hundred and forty-one, were collected by bishop Bancroft out of the articles, injunctions, and synodical acts, passed and published in the reigns of king Edward VI. and queen Elizabeth.
Page 75 - Provided also, that such canons, constitutions, ordinances, and synodals provincial, being already made, which be not contrariant or repugnant to the laws, statutes, and customs of this realm, nor to the damage or hurt of the King's prerogative royal, shall now still be used and executed as they were afore the making of this act...
Page 5 - Will you be ready with all faithful diligence, to banish and drive away all erroneous and strange doctrines, contrary to God's word...
Page 76 - King's prerogative royal, shall now still be used and executed, as they were afore the making of this act, till such time as they be viewed, searched, or otherwise ordered and determined by the said two and thirty persons, or the more part of them, according to the tenor, form, and effect, of this present act.
Page 76 - ... and then, to compare the same with the common law, and with the statute law, and with the law concerning the king's prerogative (which is also part of the common law), and from thence will come out the genuine law of the Church.
Page 78 - I needed not to have done, and you have forced me to say, I wish I had not ; you have dipped too deep in what all kings reserve among the arcana imperil ; and whatever aversion you may profess against God's being the author of sin, you have stumbled upon the threshold of that opinion, in saying, upon the matter, th.it even tyranny is God's authority, and should be remembered as such.
Page 68 - whether the bishop of Rome has, in the word of God, any greater jurisdiction in the realm of England than any other foreign bishop ? " It was determined in the negative.
Page 40 - Cease, I beseech thee, and remember that thou art a mortal man. Fear the day of judgment, and against it keep thyself pure. Do not interfere with Church matters, nor give us commandment concerning them ; but rather do thou learn these things from us. To thee God has committed the empire; to us He has entrusted the churches : and as he who should rob thee of thy power, resisteth that God who ordained thee, so be thou afraid, lest, arrogating to thyself the things of the Church, tbou become guilty...