Wayside Sketches in Ecclesiastical History: Nine Lectures

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Longmans, Green, and Company, 1906 - Christian biography - 230 pages
 

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Page 194 - Hooker boasted of with much joy and gratitude when he saw his mother and friends ; and at the bishop's parting with him, the bishop gave him good counsel and his benediction, but forgot to give him money, which when the bishop had considered, he sent a servant in all haste to call Richard back to him ; and at Richard's return the bishop said to him, " Richard, I sent for you back to lend you a horse, which hath carried me many a mile, and, I thank God, with much ease...
Page 196 - That he was meditating the number and nature of Angels, and their blessed obedience and order, without which, peace could not be in Heaven: and Oh! that it might be so on Earth!
Page 23 - Principibus tamen e cunctis non defuit unus, me puero, ut memini, ductor fortissimus armis, conditor et legum, celeberrimus ore manuque, consultor patriae, sed non consultor habendae religionis, amans ter centum millia divum.
Page 219 - ... saving when the said Holy Communion is to be administered : at which time the same shall be placed in so good sort within the church or chancel, as thereby the minister may be more conveniently heard of the communicants in his prayer and ministration, and the communicants also more conveniently, and in more number, may communicate with the said minister...
Page 147 - If thy heart were sincere and upright, then every creature would be unto thee a mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine. There is no creature so small and abject, that it representeth not the goodness of God.
Page 219 - Table in every church be decently made, and set in the place where the altar stood, and there commonly covered as thereto belongeth, and as shall be appointed by the visitors ; and so to stand, saving when the Communion of the Sacrament is to be distributed : at which time the same shall be so placed in good sort within the chancel, as whereby the minister may be more conveniently heard of the communicants in his prayer and ministration, and the communicants also more conveniently, and in more number,...
Page 152 - No man hath so in his heart a sympathy with the passion of Christ, as he who hath suffered the like himself. The cross therefore is always ready, and every where waits for thee. Thou canst not escape it whithersoever thou runnest ; for wheresoever thou goest, thou carriest thyself with thee, and shalt ever find thyself.
Page 219 - The Table. at the Communion-time having a fair white linen cloth upon it, shall stand in the Body of the Church, or in the Chancel, where Morning and Evening Prayer are appointed to be said.
Page 149 - The poetry of simple homely lives was not discerned by any one before Prudentius and Paulinus, two Christian poets. Simple homely facts were neglected in the same way by the great thinkers of antiquity. Inductive science is the child of the Gospel, and it rests upon that truth which a Kempis learned from Simplicity, "that every creature is a mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine.
Page 200 - Whether it be defended by God's law, that if it so fortuned that all the bishops and priests of a region were dead ; and that the word of God should remain there unpreached ; and the sacrament of baptism and others unministered ; that the King of that region should make bishops and priests to supply the same or no?

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