An Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of James I. and Charles I. and of the Lives of Oliver Cromwell and Charles II...: From Original Writers and State-papers, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1814 |
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Page xii
... never to put on the priest , is the sure means of preserving a state from those storms and hurricanes , which the dogmatical spi- rit of divines is continually labouring to conjure up ? Had Charles the first had the wisdom and prudence ...
... never to put on the priest , is the sure means of preserving a state from those storms and hurricanes , which the dogmatical spi- rit of divines is continually labouring to conjure up ? Had Charles the first had the wisdom and prudence ...
Page xxi
... never had hand in contriving or acting his death , as I am scandalized , but the contrary , to my mean power . " Which , if true ; no wonder he should think the act of indemnity would have included him , as well as others , as he ...
... never had hand in contriving or acting his death , as I am scandalized , but the contrary , to my mean power . " Which , if true ; no wonder he should think the act of indemnity would have included him , as well as others , as he ...
Page xxix
... never thought too soft ; they were both enemies to the republican party , though not equally furious and violent . Add to this , that neither of them , as far as appears , knew any thing of Peters themselves ; and therefore what they ...
... never thought too soft ; they were both enemies to the republican party , though not equally furious and violent . Add to this , that neither of them , as far as appears , knew any thing of Peters themselves ; and therefore what they ...
Page xxxi
... never accused of person- al vices ; they were men who made high pretensions to religion ; and the cause they fought for , they talked of ( if they did not think it to be ) as the cause of God . Now , with what face could they have done ...
... never accused of person- al vices ; they were men who made high pretensions to religion ; and the cause they fought for , they talked of ( if they did not think it to be ) as the cause of God . Now , with what face could they have done ...
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... never to have been forgotten , nor forgiven , especially as it was offered by one who was secretary to Cromwell , and who had spent the best part of his life in the service . of the anti - royalists . But yet Milton was preserved as to ...
... never to have been forgotten , nor forgiven , especially as it was offered by one who was secretary to Cromwell , and who had spent the best part of his life in the service . of the anti - royalists . But yet Milton was preserved as to ...
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Page 90 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few.
Page 153 - Religion agreed upon by the archbishops and bishops of both provinces, and the whole clergy in the convocation holden at London in the year of our Lord God...
Page 45 - Sathan are most certainly practised, and that the instruments thereof merits most severely to be punished : against the damnable opinions of two principally in our age, whereof the one called Scot, an Englishman, is not ashamed in public print to deny that there can be such a thing as witchcraft ; and so maintains the old error of the Sadducees in denying of spirits.
Page 102 - Then Jack and Tom and Will and Dick shall meet, and at their pleasures censure me and my Council and all our proceedings. Then Will shall stand up and say, 'It must be thus'; then Dick shall reply and say, 'Nay, marry, but we will have it thus.
Page 48 - ... take up any dead man, woman, or child out of his, her, or their grave, or any other place where the dead body resteth, or the skin, bone, or any other part of any dead person...
Page 222 - Kings are justly called Gods, for that they exercise a manner or resemblance of Divine power upon earth. For if you will consider the Attributes to God, you shall see how they agree in the person of a King.
Page 228 - And although we cannot allow of the style, calling it your ancient and undoubted right and inheritance, but could rather have wished that ye had said that your privileges were derived from the grace and permission of our ancestors and us...
Page 30 - I charge you, my good people, ministers, doctors, elders, nobles, gentlemen and barons, to stand to your purity, and to exhort the people to do the same, and I forsooth, so long as I brook my life and crown, shall maintain the same against all deadly.
Page 45 - The fearful abounding, at this time, in this country, of these detestable slaves of the devil, the witches or enchanters, hath moved me (beloved reader) to dispatch, in post, this following Treatise of mine, not in any wise (as I protest) to serve for a...
Page 271 - Whosoever shall hereafter affirm, that the form of God's worship in the Church of England, established by law, and contained in the Book of Common Prayer and Administration of Sacraments, is a corrupt, superstitious, or unlawful worship of God, or containeth any thing in it that is repugnant to the Scriptures...