 | John Milner - 1802 - 496 pages
...have embraced the gofpel, in order to make off the yoke of difcipline, and the obligation of fading, penance, &c. which lay upon them in the time of Popery ; and to live at their pleafure, enjoying their lufl and lawlefs appetites without controul. They therefore lend a willing... | |
 | William Richards - 1812 - 632 pages
...reformer, is to the same effect, "The greater part of the people" (says he) "seem only to have em-, braced the gospel, in order to shake off the yoke of discipline,...enjoying their lust and lawless appetites without controul. They therefore lend a willing ear to the doctrine that we are justified by faith plane and... | |
 | William Eusebius Andrews - 1817 - 512 pages
...were in the time of popery.'' The famous Bucer, an immediate disciple of Luther, writes thus: — " The greater part of the people seem only to have embraced the gospef, in order to shake offthe yoke of discipline, and the obligation of fasting, penance, &c. which... | |
 | England - 1822 - 780 pages
...superstition, to launch out more freely into every kind of lasciviousness ?"(4) And Bucer observes, that " the greater part of the people seem only to have embraced...off the yoke of discipline, and the obligation of fast, ing and penance, which lay upon them in the time of Popery, and to live at their pleasure, enjoy... | |
 | English literature - 1824 - 798 pages
...out more freely into ever kind of lasciviousness V " The greater part of the people," says Bucer, " seem only to have embraced the Gospel, in order to...yoke of discipline, and the obligation of fasting and penance, which lay upon them in the time of Popery, and to live at their pleasure, enjoying their... | |
 | Scotland - 1822 - 828 pages
...superstition, to launch out more freely into every kind of lasciviousness ?"(4) And Bueer observes, that " the greater part of the people seem only to have embraced...yoke of discipline, and the obligation of fasting and penance, which lay upon them in the time of Popery, and to live at their pleasure, enjoying their... | |
 | John Milner - 1827 - 620 pages
...whole business of the pretended Reformation was an Indulgence for libertinism. His words are these : ' The greater part of the people seem only to have embraced...obligation of fasting, penance, &c. which lay upon them in Popery, and to live at their pleasure, enjoying their lusts and lawless appetites, without controul.... | |
 | Russel Canfield - Universalism - 1827 - 268 pages
...much better was Luther's opinion of his own pure doctrine, than is yours of Universalism ? Bucer. " The greater part of the people seem only to have embraced...order to shake off the yoke of discipline, and the obligations of fasting, which lay upon them in time of popery ; and to live at their pleasure, enjoying... | |
 | John Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury - Anglican Communion - 1828 - 818 pages
...vice, than they were in the time of Popery.'—' The greater part of the people,' says Martin Bucer, ' seem only to have embraced the gospel in order to...obligation of fasting, penance, &c. which lay upon them in Popery, and to live at their pleasure, enjoying their lawless appetites without control. Hence must,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1833 - 370 pages
...consequences of this doctrine are thus described by one of Luther's own disciples, llartin Bucer : — " The greater part of the people seem only to have embraced...at their pleasure, enjoying their lust and lawless appetite without control. They therefore lend a willing ear to the doctrine that we are justified by... | |
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Thev therefore lend a willing ear to the doctrine that we are justified by faith alone, and not by good works, having no relish for them... 
