The Early English Church

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J. Burns, 1841 - 390 pages
 

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Page 331 - John. It is the curse of kings, to be attended By slaves, that take their humours for a warrant To break within the bloody house of life ; And, on the winking of authority, To understand a law ; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when, perchance, it frowns More upon humour, than advis'd respect.
Page 371 - Grant, O Lord, we beseech thee, that the course of this world may be so peaceably ordered by thy governance that thy Church may joyfully serve thee in all godly quietness ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 321 - No more of that. I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Page 110 - On a buoy in the storm it floated and swung, And over the waves its warning rung. When the Rock was hid by the surge's swell, The mariners heard the warning Bell ; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blest the Abbot of Aberbrothok.
Page 370 - O God, we have heard with our ears, and our fathers have declared unto us, the noble works that Thou didst in their days, and in the old time before them.
Page 8 - Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
Page 367 - King, and of 200 to Cromwell. He is commended for being an old worthy man, a good housekeeper, and one that daily fed many poor people. To this Latimer adds: "Alas, my good Lord!
Page 191 - Perkin, for a perfume before him as he went, caused to be published a proclamation* of this tenor following, in the name of Richard, Duke of York, true inheritor of the crown of England : " It hath pleased God, who putteth down the mighty from their seat, and exalteth the humble, and...
Page 303 - After a disagreement, to be reconciled before the going down of the sun. And never to despair of the mercy of God.
Page 314 - Butter of kine and milk of sheep, With fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, And goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; And thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.

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