A Life of Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury, Volum 3

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The University Press, 1907 - 586 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 484 - The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart, And saveth such as are of a contrite spirit.
Pàgina 20 - We do also resolve to protect and preserve the government of the Church of Scotland, as it is settled by law...
Pàgina xxxvi - History of his own Times ' is very entertaining. The style, indeed, is mere chit-chat. I do not believe that Burnet intentionally lied; but he was so much prejudiced, that he took no pains to find out the truth. He was like a man who resolves to regulate his time by a certain watch; but will not inquire whether the watch is right or not.
Pàgina xlv - I never found a disposition to superstition in my temper ; I was rather inclined to be philosophical upon all occasions. Yet I must confess, that this strange ordering of the winds and seasons, just to change as our affairs required it, could not but make deep impressions on me, as well as on all that observed it.
Pàgina 11 - ... the preservation of the reformed religion in the church of Scotland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, against our common enemies; the reformation of religion in the kingdoms of England and Ireland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, according to the Word of God, and the example of the best reformed churches...
Pàgina 231 - He thrusts about and justles into fame. Frontless and satire-proof, he scours the streets, And runs an Indian muck at all he meets.
Pàgina 109 - A vindication of the authority, constitution, and laws of the church and state of Scotland : in four conferences, wherein the answer to the dialogues betwixt the conformist and the nonconformist is examined.
Pàgina 230 - A portly prince, and goodly to the sight, He seemed a son of Anak for his height: Like those whom stature did to crowns prefer; Black-browed and bluff, like Homer's Jupiter; Broad-backed and brawny built for love's delight, 1145 A prophet formed to make a female proselyte.
Pàgina xlii - He made a very ill appearance: he was very big: his hair red, hanging oddly about him: his tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked to: and his whole manner was rough and boisterous, and very unfit for a court.
Pàgina 524 - A Rational Method for proving the Truth of the Christian Religion, as it is professed in the Church of England. In answer to.

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