 | Rupert James Rowton - 1869 - 454 стор.
...scattered, and scarce the being of a God known to these ignorant and barbarous people." "Your majesty may believe it that upon the face of the earth where...is not a church in so miserable a case, the misery whereof con sisteth in these three particulars, the ruin of the temples themselves, the want of good... | |
 | Robert King - 1869 - 890 стор.
...may be formed as to what must have been the case elsewhere. In fact, adds this writer, "your majesty may believe it, that upon the face of the earth, where...professed, there is not a Church in so miserable a ease ; the misery of which consisteth in these three particulars : — the ruin of the rery temples... | |
 | Mary Francis Cusack - 1875 - 742 стор.
...sees, declaring that if he told all he should make " too long a libel of his letter. But your Majesty may believe it, that, upon the face of the earth where...professed, there is not a Church in so miserable a case." A Protestant nobleman, after citing some extracts from this document, concludes thus : " Such was the... | |
 | Joseph H. Beale - 1884 - 1180 стор.
...sees, declaring that if he told all he should make " too long a libel of his letter. But your majesty may believe it, that, upon the face of the earth where...professed, there is not a church in so miserable a case." It should be observed, however, that Sir Henry Sidney's remarks apply exclusively to the Protestant... | |
 | Richard Bagwell - 1885 - 414 стор.
...Queen with too many details, left her to guess what the dry tree was like. ' Your Majesty may believe that upon the face of the earth, where Christ is professed, there is not a church in so miserable a case.' With ruinous churches, want of labourers for the vineyard, and want of means to pay them, Sidney had... | |
 | John Thomas Ball - 1886 - 386 стор.
...their noisome neighbours " ; and then as to the entire Church, he emphatically declares "your Majesty may believe it, that upon the face of the earth, where...miserable a case ; the misery of which consisteth in these particulars : the ruin of the very -temples themselves ; the want of good ministers to serve in them... | |
 | J. A. Fox - 1890 - 470 стор.
...1576, says : — " The Church [the Protestant Established] is foul deformed, " and cruelly crushed ; upon the face of the earth, where Christ " is professed,...there is not a Church in so miserable a case. "... The most part of such English ministers as came over " here [to Ireland] are either unlearned or of bad... | |
 | John Thomas Ball - 1890 - 422 стор.
...his conclusion from the whole investigation was expressed in the emphatic words: . . . "Your Majesty may believe it, that upon the face of the earth where Christ is professed there Is not a Chureh in so miserable a case."* Spenser spoke even more harshly than Sidney of the clergy : " Whatever... | |
 | Henry Clay Sheldon - 1894 - 630 стор.
...wanting, as appears from this testimony of Sir Henry Sidney in a letter to Queen Elizabeth, in 1575 : " Upon the face of the earth, where Christ is professed, there is not a Church, your Majesty may believe, in so miserable a case : the misery of which consisteth in these three particulars... | |
 | John Macbeth - 1899 - 348 стор.
...that the Sacrament of Baptism is not administered among them, and truly I believe it;" and he adds, "that upon the face of the earth, where Christ is...professed, there is not a Church in so miserable a case." Such was the condition of the Church after more than three centuries of Papal supremacy. The seventeen... | |
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But your Majesty may believe it, that upon the face of the earth, where Christ is professed, there is not a church in so miserable a case. 
