The Christian reader, ed. by G.B. Gibbons and T. Gibbons, Volume 2George Buckmaster Gibbons 1843 |
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... reform itself , and then it would have stood secure , for it is not more true that Christ is the Saviour of the world , than that the covetousness , venality , uncleanness , and frauds of Rome have brought this storm upon her . This my ...
... reform itself , and then it would have stood secure , for it is not more true that Christ is the Saviour of the world , than that the covetousness , venality , uncleanness , and frauds of Rome have brought this storm upon her . This my ...
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... reform the church , but never mind it now , my friend , Harry is the dear reformer , and he will beard the bishop of Rome , until he shrink from all controversy with an English king ; and , believe me that since the pope argues sword in ...
... reform the church , but never mind it now , my friend , Harry is the dear reformer , and he will beard the bishop of Rome , until he shrink from all controversy with an English king ; and , believe me that since the pope argues sword in ...
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... reform he had some support from pope Innocent IV . , whom he had known in his youth ; but either his love of money , or his necessities ( for he was at war with the Italian states ) , drove him , for filthy lucre's sake , to take part ...
... reform he had some support from pope Innocent IV . , whom he had known in his youth ; but either his love of money , or his necessities ( for he was at war with the Italian states ) , drove him , for filthy lucre's sake , to take part ...
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... reform might have been safe and salu- tary . The despotism of his father was a thing un- known to him ; the violence of Rome had subsided in defeat ; and that state of calm deliberation and devotion , in which alone reform of church or ...
... reform might have been safe and salu- tary . The despotism of his father was a thing un- known to him ; the violence of Rome had subsided in defeat ; and that state of calm deliberation and devotion , in which alone reform of church or ...
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George Buckmaster Gibbons. " tempted , was allowed us for a time . Reform is a great national operation , ' if I may use a surgical expression , and the first element necessary to its success is ' peace and order . ' There must be no ...
George Buckmaster Gibbons. " tempted , was allowed us for a time . Reform is a great national operation , ' if I may use a surgical expression , and the first element necessary to its success is ' peace and order . ' There must be no ...
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Page 235 - And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.
Page 256 - Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him ; He hath put Him to grief : when Thou shalt make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the pleasure of the LOUD shall prosper in His hand.
Page 256 - All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
Page 257 - Create in me a clean heart, O God ; And renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence ; And take not thy holy spirit from me.
Page 255 - Who hath believed our report ? And to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed ? for he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground : he hath no form nor comeliness ; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Page 24 - tis said, Before was never made, But when of old the sons of morning sung While the Creator great His constellations set, And the well-balanced world on hinges hung, And cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the weltering waves their oozy channel keep.
Page 24 - Full little thought they then That the mighty Pan Was kindly come to live with them below; Pethaps their loves or else their sheep, Was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.
Page 24 - Once bless our human ears, If ye have power to touch our senses so; And let your silver chime Move in melodious time; And let the...
Page 283 - Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh...
Page 157 - And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.