The Reformation: A Religious and Historical SketchJ. Murray, 1901 - 362 pages |
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Page 280 - And in these our doings we condemn no other nations, nor prescribe any thing but to our own people only : For we think it convenient that every country should use such Ceremonies as they shall think best to the setting forth of God's Honour and Glory...
Page 62 - Enter not into judgment with thy servant, O LORD; for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Page 279 - they are made members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven...
Page 324 - As for the fear of danger that may come to me," continued he, " let no man be solicitous ; for my life is in the custody of Him whose glory I seek. I desire the hand nor weapon of no man to defend me. I only crave audience ; which, if it be denied here unto me at this time, I must seek where I may have it.
Page 275 - ... have always in a readiness, such comfortable places and sentences of Scripture, as do set forth the mercy, benefits, and goodness of Almighty God towards all penitent and believing persons, that they may, at all times (when necessity shall require), promptly comfort their flock with the lively word of God, which is the only stay of man's conscience.
Page 324 - And as for the fear of danger that may come to me, let no man be solist 3 ; for my life is in the custody of Him whose glory I seek ; and therefore I cannot so fear their boast nor tyranny, that I will cease from doing my duty, when of his mercy He offereth the occasion.
Page 324 - ... from the which I was reft by the tyranny of France, by procurement of the Bishops, as ye all well enough know. How long I continued prisoner, what torment I sustained in the galleys, and what were the sobs of my heart, is now no time to recite. This only I cannot conceal, which more than one have heard me say, when the body was far absent from Scotland, that my assured hope was, in open audience, to preach in Saint Andrews before I departed this life.
Page 29 - All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
Page 24 - The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth have been set on edge.
Page 280 - Moreover, the number and hardness of the rules called the Pie, and the manifold changings of the service, was the cause that to turn the book only was so hard and intricate a matter, that many times there was more business to find out what should be read than to read it when it was found out.