The Historic Note-book: With an Appendix of Battles |
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Page 516 - And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
Page 310 - And being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. For John truly baptized with water ; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
Page 212 - I, AB, do declare that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take arms against the king, and that I do abhor that traitorous position of taking arms by his authority against his person or against those that are commissioned by him...
Page 332 - Those five commonly called Sacraments, that is to say, Confirmation, Penance, Orders, Matrimony, and extreme Unction, are not to be counted for Sacraments of the Gospel, being such as have grown partly of the corrupt following of the Apostles, partly are states of life allowed in the Scriptures; but yet have not like nature of Sacraments with Baptism, and the Lord's Supper, for that they have not any visible sign or ceremony ordained of God.
Page 73 - I shall see him, but not now; I shall behold him, but not nigh : there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel...
Page 245 - ... declared themselves to be of the royal party, should be decimated, that is, pay a tenth part of all that estate which they had left, to support the charge which the commonwealth was put to, by the unquietness of their temper, and the just cause of jealousy which they had administered.
Page 34 - And if by grace, then it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
Page 118 - Family Shakspeare : In which nothing is added to the Original Text ; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud.
Page 484 - That the squares of the times of the revolutions of the planets are as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun.
Page 495 - ... the badge and character of the Church of England, of submitting to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake...