Cobbett's Legacy to Parsons, Or, Have the Clergy of the Established Church an Equitable Right to the Tithes: Or to Any Other Thing Called Church Property, Greater Than the Dissenters Have to the Same? and Ought There, Or Ought There Not, to be a Separation of the Church from the State? : in Six Letters ...

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Published at 11, Bolt-Court, Fleet-Street, 1835 - Church and state - 190 pages

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Page 105 - For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment ; and ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place ; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool : are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts...
Page 107 - Matrimony; which is an honourable estate, instituted of God in the time of man's innocency, signifying unto us the mystical union that is betwixt Christ and his Church; which holy estate Christ adorned and beautified with his presence, and first miracle that he wrought, in Cana of Galilee...
Page 118 - WILL you then give your faithful diligence always so to minister the Doctrine and Sacraments, and the Discipline of Christ, as the Lord hath commanded, and as this Church and Realm hath received the same...
Page 99 - OUR Lord Jesus Christ, who hath left power to his church to absolve all sinners who truly repent and believe in him, of his great mercy forgive thee thine offences ! And by his authority committed to me, I absolve thee from all thy sins, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
Page 129 - Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks? Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.
Page 24 - ... might impugn the same ; offering ourselves, and promising by this our supplication, that, for a token and knowledge of our said repentance, we be, and shall be always, ready, under and with the...
Page 177 - The Book of the Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, after the use of the Church of England.
Page 178 - Baptist next coming, be bounden to say and use the matins, evensong, celebration of the Lord's Supper, and administration of each of the sacraments, and all their common and open prayer...
Page 179 - ... in and throughout this Act, is meant that prayer which is for other to come unto, or hear, either in common churches or private chapels or oratories, commonly called the service of the Church...
Page 14 - Church, should draw and make one convenient and meet order, rite and fashion of common and open Prayer and administration of the Sacraments...

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