The Zurich Letters: Comprising the Correspondence of Several English Bishops and Others, with Some of the Helvetian Reformers, During the Early Part of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, Volum 1

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University Press, 1842
 

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Pàgina 172 - For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
Pàgina 172 - But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
Pàgina 180 - Christ's natural flesh and blood, for the sacramental bread and wine remain still in their very natural substances, and therefore may not be adored (for that were idolatry, to be abhorred of all faithful Christians), and the natural body and blood of our Saviour Christ are in heaven, and not here ; it being against the truth of Christ's natural body to be at one time in more places than one.
Pàgina 180 - Christ's natural Flesh and Blood. For the Sacramental Bread and Wine remain still in their very natural substances, and therefore may not be adored ; (for that were idolatry, to be abhorred of all faithful Christians...
Pàgina 23 - The scenic apparatus of divine worship is now under agitation; and those very things which you and I have so often laughed at, are now seriously and solemnly entertained by certain persons (for we are not consulted) as if the Christian religion could not exist without something tawdry.
Pàgina 169 - We, who are now bishops, on our first return, and before we entered on our ministry, contended2 long and earnestly for the removal of those things that have occasioned the present dispute ; but as we were unable to prevail, either with the queen or the parliament, we judged it best, after a consultation on the subject, not to desert our churches for the sake of a few ceremonies...
Pàgina 180 - ... it is hereby declared, that thereby no adoration is intended, or ought to be done, either unto the sacramental bread and wine there bodily received, or unto any corporal presence of Christ's natural flesh and blood.
Pàgina 202 - ... occasionally even in ships, they have held their meetings and administered the sacraments. Besides this, they have ordained ministers, elders, and deacons, after their own way, and have even excommunicated some who had seceded from their church.
Pàgina 71 - Mass priests, and the devil. For they perceive that by these means, the sacred discourses sink more deeply into the minds of men, and that their kingdom is weakened and shaken at almost every 1 Chron. Belg., No. DCCCXXIV, ii, p. 643. note.
Pàgina 202 - The number of this sect is about two hundred, but consisting of more women than men. The privy council have lately committed the heads of this faction to prison, and are using every means to put a timely stop to this sect*.

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