Historical references, in support of the Remarks on the erroneous opinions entertained respecting the Catholic religion

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Journal Office, 1827
 

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Сторінка 11 - For in his time the law did receive so sudden a perfection, that sir Matthew Hale does not scruple to affirm ', that more was done in the first thirteen years of his reign to settle and establish the distributive justice of the kingdom, than in all the ages since that time put together.
Сторінка 23 - ... statutes should be held forth for a terror only, but that no open persecution should be raised upon them ; — following therein, as he affirmed, the counsel sent unto the Queen by Charles the Emperor, at her first coming to the Crown ; by whom she was advised to create no trouble unto any man for matter of conscience...
Сторінка 92 - ... take it away, but what, by the law of the land, must withal take away their lives, and corrupt their blood.
Сторінка 90 - ... planted in us by the Author of our nature, and utterly incompatible with all religion, natural and revealed, and therefore a mere act of power, having neither the nature nor obligation of law.
Сторінка 28 - The See of Rome never taught that faith is not to be kept with the heterodox: that an oath to Kings separated from the Catholic Communion, can be violated: that it is lawful for the Bishop of Rome to invade their temporal rights and dominions. We, too, consider an attempt or design against the life of Kings and Princes, even under the pretext of religion, as a horrid and detestable crime.
Сторінка 87 - Sir Thomas, though we have not one word or deed of yours to object against you, yet we have your silence, which is an evident sign of the malice of your heart, because no dutiful subject, being lawfully asked this question, will refuse to answer it.
Сторінка 19 - Elizabeth expressly prohibited them from meddling either with state matters or ecclesiastical causes ; and she openly sent the members to prison who dared to transgress her imperial edict in these particulars. There passed few sessions of Parliament during her reign where there occur not instances of this arbitrary conduct. But...
Сторінка 90 - ... as contrary to the original inherent rights of human nature, which, as they are not derived from, nor held under, civil laws, by 110 civil laws can be taken away.
Сторінка 30 - God to touch their hearts out of his infinite mercy, and to make them sensible of the ill condition they are in, and bring them to such a temper that a legal parliament may be called, and that, amongst other things which may be necessary to be done, they will agree to...
Сторінка 17 - ... discretion. In a word, this court was a real inquisition ; attended with all the iniquities, as well .as cruelties, inseparable from that tribunal.

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