Commentaries on the Life and Reign of Charles the First, King of England, Volume 3

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H. Colburn, 1830 - Great Britain

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Page 314 - Now- therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear ? But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
Page 300 - If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord...
Page 68 - Rebus in adversis facile est contemnere vitam ; Fortiter ille facit, qui miser esse potest...
Page 257 - ... other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker, but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Page 69 - if you call this a treaty, consider whether it be not like the fray in the comedy where the man comes out and says, ' There has been a fray and no fray ;' and being asked how that could be, ' why,' says he, ' there hath been three blows given, and I had them all.
Page 89 - I shall not instance an abstruse author, wherein the king might be less conversant, but one whom we well know was the closet companion of these his solitudes, William Shakespeare...
Page 123 - ... as if you believe that I should be capable to shew them to any, only to Lord Jermyn to uncypher them, my head not suffering me to do it myself; but, if it please you, I will do it, and none in the world shall see them. Be kind to me, or you kill me. I have already affliction enough to fear, which without you I could not do, but your service surmounts all.
Page 47 - No churchman had it since Henry 7's time. I pray God bless him, to carry it so, that the Church may have honour, and the king and the state service and contentment by it. And now if the church will not hold up themselves, under God, I can do no more.
Page 300 - If thou restrain thy foot from the Sabbath ; From doing thy pleasure on my holy day : And shalt call the Sabbath, a delight; And the holy feast of JEHOVAH, honourable : And shalt honour it, by refraining from thy purpose, From pursuing thy pleasure, and from speaking vain words ; 14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in JEHOVAH...
Page 430 - I keep Laud back from all place of rule and authority because I find he hath a restless spirit, and cannot see when matters are well, but loves to toss and change, and to bring things to a pitch of reformation floating in his own brain, which may endanger the steadfastness of that which is in a good pass, God be praised.

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