The Speech of Mr. John Checkley: Upon His Trial at Boston in 1724

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H.B. Dawson, 1868 - Всего страниц: 31
 

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Стр. 11 - But know, that I alone am king of me. I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Стр. 25 - Oath to maintain and preserve inviolably the said Settlement of the Church of England and the Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government thereof as by Law established within the Kingdoms of England and Ireland the Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed and the Territories thereunto belonging.
Стр. 22 - And by this addition the party might by his own private opinion, take some of them to be against the word of God, and by this means diversity of opinions should not be avoided, which was the scope of the statute, and the very act itself made touching subscription hereby of none effect.
Стр. 21 - ... by the authority of this present parliament, that every person under the degree of a bishop, which doth or shall pretend to be a priest or minister of God's Holy Word and Sacraments, by reason of any other form of institution, consecration, or ordering, than the form set forth by parliament in the time of the late King of most worthy memory, King Edward the Sixth, or now used in the reign of our most gracious sovereign lady...
Стр. 12 - I say of the manner of proceeding, auferat oblivio, si potest, si non utcumque silentium tegat. For the more high and absolute the jurisdiction of the court is, the more just and honourable it ought to be in the proceedings, and to give example of justice to inferior courts.
Стр. 28 - Checkley) be a false and scandalous libel ; Then we find the said Checkley guilty of all and every Part of the Indictment (excepting that supposed to traduce and draw into dispute the undoubted Right and Title of our Sovereign Lord, King George, to the Kingdoms of Great-Britain and Ireland, and the territories thereto belonging.) But if the said Book, containing a discourse concerning Episcopacy, as aforesaid, be not a false and scandalous Libel ; Then we find him not guilty. "Att*- Samuel Tyley,...
Стр. 27 - And to demonftrate to your Honours that their Worfhips defigned to amend the Indictment in that Particular, they ordered the Attorney-General to infift upon thofe three Claufes only (pretended to be) againft the Government. The Jury found me guilty of imagining and contriving, by the Subtilty of Arguments, to traduce the Title of His prefent Majejly.
Стр. 22 - Who likewife, in the Eye of the Law of England, is mere laicus, not in Holy Orders, but a mere Lay-Man. Since then the Laws of England allow no Minifter to be Orthodox, but he who is Epifcopally Ordained, and who fubfcribes the abovefaid three Articles, which is a Minifter of the Church of England.
Стр. 31 - It's therefore considered by the Court, that the said John Checkley shall pay a Fine of Fifty Pounds to the King, and enter into Recognizance in the sum of One Hundred Pounds, with two Sureties in the Sum of Fifty Pounds each, for his good Behaviour for six Months, and also pay costs of prosecution, standing committed until this Sentence be performed.
Стр. 9 - World, & fee if this Clue will not lead them up to the Divifion of the Nations after the Flood, which I am fure no man (Who has feen that account which holy Scripture gives us of it) will venture to fay was done by the People,

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