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... Despotism begins to rouse Parliament . Accession of Charles I. Despotic Principles of the High Church Party The Parliament begins to defend Liberty , Civil and Re- ligious . 1633 The Book of Sports revived 2820 29 30 32 32 84 35 36 37 ...
... Despotism begins to rouse Parliament . Accession of Charles I. Despotic Principles of the High Church Party The Parliament begins to defend Liberty , Civil and Re- ligious . 1633 The Book of Sports revived 2820 29 30 32 32 84 35 36 37 ...
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... despotism , under which the people must sink into utter degradation , or against which they are provoked , from time to time , to rise in all the dangerous fierceness of revolutionary con- vulsion . But it is enough merely to suggest ...
... despotism , under which the people must sink into utter degradation , or against which they are provoked , from time to time , to rise in all the dangerous fierceness of revolutionary con- vulsion . But it is enough merely to suggest ...
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... despot did not perceive that the private use of the Scriptures would soon teach his people the right of private judgment also in matters of religion , which all his boasted supremacy would not long be able to control . By this Act it ...
... despot did not perceive that the private use of the Scriptures would soon teach his people the right of private judgment also in matters of religion , which all his boasted supremacy would not long be able to control . By this Act it ...
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... despotism , they succeeded in overthrowing a Church whose scriptural simplicity and purity they might have rejoiced to imitate , and in setting up human inven- tions , in which pride and selfishness might glory ; giving , likewise , an ...
... despotism , they succeeded in overthrowing a Church whose scriptural simplicity and purity they might have rejoiced to imitate , and in setting up human inven- tions , in which pride and selfishness might glory ; giving , likewise , an ...
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... despotism were perpe- trated , both in England and in Scotland ; especially in the latter country , when Prelacy was forced upon it by the treacherous tyranny of King James . Some of the reformed divines were next appointed to revise ...
... despotism were perpe- trated , both in England and in Scotland ; especially in the latter country , when Prelacy was forced upon it by the treacherous tyranny of King James . Some of the reformed divines were next appointed to revise ...
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Page 123 - GOD, endeavour, in our several places and callings, 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...
Page 324 - The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the Use of the Church of England, together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches, and the Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests and Deacons...
Page 123 - Deans, Deans and Chapters, Archdeacons, and all other ecclesiastical officers depending on that hierarchy), superstition, heresy, schism, profaneness, and whatsoever shall be found to be contrary to sound doctrine and the power of godliness lest we partake in other men's sins, and thereby be in danger to receive of their plagues ; and that the Lord may be one, and His name one in the three kingdoms.
Page 88 - And the better to effect the intended reformation, we desire there may be a general synod of the most grave, pious, learned and judicious divines of this island ; assisted with some from foreign parts, professing the same religion with us, who may consider of all things necessary for the peace and good government of the Church...
Page 348 - God alone is Lord of the conscience, and hath left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men which are in any thing contrary to his word, or beside it, in matters of faith or worship.
Page 124 - III. We shall with the same sincerity, reality and constancy, in our several vocations, endeavour with our estates and lives mutually to preserve the rights and privileges of the Parliaments, and the liberties of the kingdoms...
Page 122 - A solemn League and Covenant for reformation and defence of religion, the honour and happiness of the King, and the peace and safety of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Page 124 - IV. We shall also with all faithfulness endeavour the discovery of all such as have been, or shall be, incendiaries, malignants, or evil instruments, by hindering the reformation of religion, dividing the king from his people, or one of the kingdoms from another...
Page 77 - I, AB, do in the Presence of Almighty God promise, vow and protest, To maintain and defend as far as lawfully I may, with my life, power and estate, the True Reformed Protestant Religion, expressed in the Doctrine of the Church of England, against all Popery and Popish Innovations...
Page 361 - These angels and men thus predestinated, and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed, and their number is so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.