...speaks by the special assistance of God,s Spirit," said he ; "I protest my heart melteth for joy that Almighty God, of his singular mercy, has given us such a king as since Christ,s time has not been." In his gushing sycophancy the bishop forgot Nero, of the first century,...

...;" and the Bishop of London fell upon his knees and said : " 1 protest my heart melteth for joy that Almighty God, of his singular mercy, has given us such a king as since Christ's time has not been." A brilliant modern English writer, expressing the verdict of history, says of that king: " He was cunning,...

...the bishop of London fell upon his knees and said, " I protest my heart melts within me for joy that Almighty God, of His singular mercy, has given us...such a King as, since Christ's time, has not been." This was the beginning of those royal and prelatical revilings and persecutions of the Puritans by...

...repulsive creature, "I protest my heart melreth with joy The Stuart Divine Right of Kings 301 that almighty God, of his singular mercy, has given us such a king, as since Christ's time the like hath not been." It was the leaguing of this bogus kingcraft and this bogus priestcraft, the...

...Bancroft, Bishop of London, fell upon his knees, and said, " 1 protest my heart ineltetli with joy, that Almighty God, of his singular mercy, has given us such a king, that since Christ's time has not been;" and Whitgift, in an ecstasy cried out, " That his majesty spake...

...which we have quoted above, fell on his knees and cried, ' I protest my heart melteth for joy, that Almighty God, ' of his singular mercy, has given us such a king, as since Christ's ' time hath not been;' and when the old Archbishop was so transported as to cry out, after another absolutist...