Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion, and Other Various Occurrences in the Church of England, During Queen Elizabeth's Happy Reign: pt. 1. Introduction to this history. Annals of the reformation of religion under Queen Elizabeth

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At the Clarendon Press, 1824
 

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Page 323 - God speed the plough, written under in great letters, knowing that none hinder the plough more than rebels, who will neither go to the plough themselves, nor suffer other that would go unto it.
Page 322 - Highness's dominions and countries, as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes as temporal, and that no foreign prince, person, prelate, State or potentate hath or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence or authority ecclesiastical or spiritual within...
Page 237 - Mr Speaker, coming from the Queen's Majesty, declared her Highness' pleasure to be that, for her good will to the House, she did revoke her two former commandments, requiring the House no further at this time to proceed in the matter : which revocation was taken of all the House most joyfully with most hearty prayer and thanks for the same.
Page 371 - Wherefore, her Majesty would have all her loving subjects to understand, that, as long as they shall openly continue in the observation of her laws, and shall not wilfully and manifestly break them by their open actions, her Majesty's meaning is, not to have any of them molested by any inquisition or examination of their consciences in causes of religion; but will accept and entreat them as her good and obedient subjects.
Page 393 - Marie's time, and were chosen thereto for no other cause, or were then most esteemed for being hot and earnest in the other religion, and now remain unplaced and uncalled to credit, will think themselves discredited, and all their doings defaced, and study all the ways they can to maintain their former doings, and despise all this alteration.
Page 91 - Yea I believe, that beside her perfect readiness in Latin, Italian, French, and Spanish, she readeth here now at Windsor more Greek every day than some prebendary of this church doth read Latin in a whole week.
Page 146 - Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.
Page 395 - And contrary, as those men must be based, so must her highnesses old and sure servants, who have tarryed with her, and not shrunk in the last storms, be advanced with authority and credit : that the world may see that her highness is not unkind nor unmindful. And throughout all England such persons as are known to be sure in religion, every one, according to his ability to serve in the commonwealth, to be set in place. Whom, if in the cause of...
Page 308 - Have a care over my people. You have my people — do you that, which I ought to do. They are my people. Every man oppresseth and spoileth them without mercy. They cannot revenge their quarrel, nor help themselves. See unto them — see unto them, for they are my charge.
Page 131 - ... shall happen any contempt or irreverence to be used in the ceremonies or rites of the Church, by the misusing of the orders appointed in this book : The Queen's Majesty may by the like advice of the said...

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