The Condition of Catholics Under James I.: Father Gerard's Narrative of the Gunpowder PlotLongmans, Green, 1871 - 344 pages |
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Page 279 - Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort ; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
Page 70 - My lord, out of the love I bear to some of your friends, I have a care of your preservation. Therefore I would advise you, as you tender your life, to devise some excuse to shift off your attendance at this parliament. For God and man hath concurred to punish the wickedness of this time.
Page cclvii - It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him: if we suffer, we shall also reign with him...
Page lxii - He that shall deny Me before men, him will I deny before My Father Who is in Heaven.
Page 260 - I am come to send fire on the earth ; and what will I, if it be already kindled?
Page 92 - Yet it is true on the other side, that many honest men, blinded peradventure with some opinions of popery, as, if they be not sound in the questions of the real presence or in the number of the sacraments, or some such school question ; yet do they either not know, or at least not believe, all the true grounds of popery, which is indeed
Page ccix - ... they were printed, and can only join with the rest of the world in applauding the true and striking portraits which they present of old Scottish manners. I do not expect implicit reliance to be placed on my disavowal, because I know very well that he who is disposed not to own a work must necessarily deny it, and that otherwise his secret would be at the mercy of all who choose to ask the question, since silence in such a case must always pass for consent, or rather assent.
Page 72 - ... your country, where you may expect the event in safety. For though there be no appearance of any stir, yet, I say, they will receive a terrible blow this Parliament, and yet they shall not see who hurts them. This counsel is not to be contemned, because it may do you good, and can do you no harm: for the danger is past as soon as you have burned the letter.
Page 174 - Mr. Catesby took him aside, and had speech about somewhat to be done, so as first we might all take an oath of secrecy, which we resolved within two or three days to do; so as there we met behind St. Clement's. Mr. Catesby, Mr. Percy, Mr. Wright, Mr. Guy Fawkes, and myself ; and having upon a Primer given each other the oath of secrecy, in a chamber where no other body was, we went after into the next room and heard mass, and received the Blessed Sacrament upon the same.
Page 70 - I would advise you, as you tender your life, to devise some excuse to shift off your attendance at this parliament. For God and man have concurred to punish the wickedness of this time. And think not slightly of this advertisement ; but retire yourself into your country, where you may expect the event in safety. For, though there be no appearance of any stir, yet I say, they will receive a terrible blow this parliament ; and yet they shall not see who hurts them.