History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth, Volume 3

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Page 34 - I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
Page 459 - My lord, if it were not to satisfy the world, and my realm, I would not do tluit I must do this day for none earthly thing...
Page 81 - I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men ; for kings, and for all that are in authority ; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
Page 239 - Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to his disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
Page 74 - Every parson or proprietary of every parish church within this realm shall, on this side of the feast of St. Peter ad Vincula next coming, provide a book of the whole Bible, both in Latin and also in English, and lay the same in the quire, for every man that will to read and look therein ; and shall discourage no man from reading any part of the Bible, but rather comfort, exhort, and admonish every man to read the same, as the very word of God and the spiritual food of man's soul...
Page 67 - Item, that it is offered unto all men, as well infants as such as have the use of reason, that by baptism they shall have remission of sins, and the grace and favour of God, according to the saying of Christ . . . Whosoever believeth and is baptized shall be saved...
Page 61 - It was as lawful to baptize in a tub of water at home or in a ditch by the wayside as in a font of stone in the church. The water in the font was but a thing conjured.
Page 499 - I adsure you I liked her so ill, and so far contrary to that she was praised, that I was woe that ever she came into England...
Page 81 - The peculiar genius — if such a word may be permitted — which breathes through it — the mingled tenderness and majesty — the Saxon simplicity — the preternatural grandeur — unequalled, unapproached, in the attempted improvements of modern scholars — all are here, and bear the impress of the mind of one man — William Tyndal.
Page 226 - ... the great mercy and benignity of the prince, should and might feel what it is to have such a traitor to their kinsLet him man.

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