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" We were indeed amazed to see a poor commonalty so capable to argue upon points of government, and on the bounds to be set to the power of princes in matters of religion : upon all these topics they had texts of scripture at hand ; and were ready with... "
Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time: From the Restoration of King ... - Page 197
by Gilbert Burnet - 1850 - 949 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 192

1900 - 608 pages
...all these points they had texts of Scripture at hand, and were ready with their answers to anything that was said to them. This measure of knowledge was spread even amongst tha meanest of them, their cottagers and their servants. They were indeed vain of their knowledge,...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 5

Books - 1822 - 384 pages
...religion. " Upon all these topics they had texts of Scripture at hand ; and were ready with their answers to any thing that was said to them. This measure of...conceited of themselves ; and were full of a most intangled scrupulosity : so that they found or made difficulties in every point that could be laid...
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Retrospective Review, Volume 5

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1822 - 392 pages
...religion. " Upon all these topics they had texts of Scripture at hand ; and were ready with their answers to any thing that was said to them. This measure of...conceited of themselves ; and were full of a most intangled scrupulosity : so that they found or made difficulties in every point that could be laid...
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Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time: With the Suppressed ..., Volume 1

Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1823 - 642 pages
...religion : upon all these topics they had texts of scripture at hand; and were ready with their answers to any thing that was said to them. This measure of...found, or made, difficulties in every thing that could be laid before them. We staid about three months in the country : and in that time there was a stand...
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The Whole Works of Robert Leighton ...

Robert Leighton, James Aikman - Theology - 1832 - 758 pages
...religion ; upon all these topics they had texts of scripture at hand, and were ready with their answers to any thing that was said to them. This measure of...a most entangled scrupulosity, so that they found and made difficulties to every thing that could be laid before them." Another attempt was yet again...
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Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time: With Notes by the Earls ..., Volume 1

Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1833 - 676 pages
...religion : upon all these topics they had texts of scripture at hand ; and were ready with their answers to any thing that was said to them. This measure of...found, or made, difficulties in every thing that could be laid before them. We stayed about three months in the 1670. country: and in that time there was...
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Essays on the Apocalypse, with illustrations from English history

Richard Burdon Sanderson - Bible - 1838 - 286 pages
...religion : upon all these topics they had texts of Scripture at hand, and were ready with their answers to any thing that was said to them. This measure of knowledge was spread even amongst the meanest of them, their cottagers, and their servants. We staid about three months in the...
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Miscellaneous Writings, Chiefly Historical

Thomas M'Crie - Christian biography - 1841 - 704 pages
...of the Holy Ghost, they were edified."— ED.] This measure of knowledge was spread even among 'tki meanest of them, their cottagers, and their servants....found or made difficulties in every thing that could be laid before them.'"* The 'reader will observe that this extract refers to the very topics on which...
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Sketches of Scottish Church History: Embracing the Period from the ..., Volume 1

Thomas M'Crie - Reformation - 1841 - 602 pages
...religion, — upon all these topics they had texts of Scripture at hand, and were ready with their answers to any thing that was said to them. This measure of...meanest of them, their cottagers and their servants." * "So they returned disappointed of that senseless wyle, the like of which they never essayed, first...
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Annals of the Persecution in Scotland: From the Restoration to the Revolution

James Aikman - Persecution - 1842 - 604 pages
...religion. Upon all these topies they had texts of Scripture at hand, and were ready with their answers to any thing that was said to them. This measure of...meanest of them, their cottagers and their servants." Neither did the grand object to which these were preliminary, succeed any better. After several conferences,...
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