The Church Under Queen Elizabeth: An Historical Sketch, Том 2

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W. H. Allen, 1880

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Сторінка 146 - Forgery — I blush for the honour of Protestantism while I write it — seems to have been peculiar to the reformed ... I look in vain for one of those accursed outrages of imposition amongst the disciples of Popery.
Сторінка 212 - Queen, considering the great peril she is subject unto hourly so long as the said Queen shall live. Wherein, besides a kind of lack of love towards her, she noteth greatly that you have not that care of your own particular safeties, or rather of the preservation of religion and the public good, and prosperity of your country...
Сторінка 296 - Church-land, added to an ancient and just inheritance, hath proved like a moth fretting a garment, and secretly consumed both ; or like the eagle that stole a coal from the altar, and thereby set her nest on fire, which consumed both her young eagles, and herself that stole it..f.
Сторінка 344 - 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.
Сторінка 190 - Buxtons, but also presented with a very rare present, we should do him great wrong, holding him in that place of favour we do, in case we should not let you understand in how thankful sort we accept the same at both your hands, not as done unto him but to our own self, reputing him as another...
Сторінка 127 - ... the most learned colleges in Italy. That men of the slightest learning, and the most ignorant of the common people, were mad for a new, or super, or re-reformation of religion ; and that in this they appeared like that man, who would never cease to whet and whet his knife, till there was no steel left to make it useful.
Сторінка 56 - ... him, that he thought they meant to make him away in that manner. Before he went to the rack, he used to fall down at the rack-house door upon both knees to commend himself to God's mercy; and upon the rack he called continually upon God, repeating often the holy name of Jesus.
Сторінка 37 - Into thy hands I commend my spirit : for thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, thou God of truth.
Сторінка 214 - I would not fail, according to your directions, to return my answer with all possible speed; which [I] shall deliver unto you with great grief and bitterness of mind, in that I am so unhappy...
Сторінка 209 - About one day before his death, Dr. Saravia, who knew the very secrets of his soul, (for they were supposed to be confessors to each other) came to him, and after a conference of the benefit, the necessity, and safety of the Church's absolution, it was resolved that the Doctor should give him both that and the sacrament the day following.

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