Gentleman's Magazine Library: Staffordshire. Suffolk

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E. Stock, 1899

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Page 245 - In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.
Page 275 - The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart : and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
Page 162 - ... God the searcher of all hearts, take thee CD, for my wedded Wife ; and do also in the presence of God, and before these witnesses, promise to be unto thee a loving and faithful Husband.
Page 274 - Surely the Lord is in this place. This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
Page 251 - There was a fair Rood Loft, with the Rood, Mary and John, of every side, and with a fair pair of organs standing thereby ; which loft extended all the breadth of the Church, and on Good Friday, a Priest, then standing by the Rood, sang the Passion. The side thereof, towards the body of the church, in twelve partitions in boards, was fair painted with the images of the twelve Apostles.
Page 246 - That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.
Page 176 - Providence for his sins, he made in the hour of danger a solemn vow to amend his life; in pursuance of which, as soon as he had landed, he repaired to Bury to perform his devotions at the shrine of St. Edmund. Soon after the treaty concluded by...
Page 251 - Quire was a fair planted frame of timber, to be set up about Maunday Thursday, with holes for a number of fair tapers to stand in before the sepulchre, and to be lighted in service time.
Page 247 - Quod fuit esse — quod est ; Quod non fuit esse — quod esse. Esse quod est — uon esse quod est : Non est — erit — esse.

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