The Life and Acts of John Whitgift, D.D., the Third and Last Lord Archbishop of Canterbury in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth: The life and acts of John Whitgift, Book 4Clarendon Press, 1822 |
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Page 52 - Finally brethren, farewell : be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace ; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
Page 49 - And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
Page 526 - ... confer, treat, debate, consider, consult, and agree of and upon, such canons, orders, ordinances and constitutions, as they should think necessary, fit and convenient, for the honour and service of Almighty God, the good and quiet of the church, and the better government thereof...
Page 358 - The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it. And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.
Page 358 - And after that, he gave unto them judges, about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.
Page 149 - THOUGH for no other cause, yet for this ; that posterity may know we have not loosely through silence permitted things to pass away as in a dream, there shall be for men's information extant thus much concerning the present state of the Church of God established amongst us, and their careful endeavour which would have upheld the same.
Page 522 - God here established ; neither in the doctrine, which appeared to be sincere, nor in the forms and rites, which were justified out of the practice of the primitive Church. Notwithstanding we thought meet, with consent of the bishops and other learned men there present, that some small things might rather be explained, than changed ; not that the same might not very well have been borne with...
Page 186 - Eliz. for writing and publishing sundry seditious books and pamphlets, tending to the slander of the queen and government...
Page 48 - BUT there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Page 528 - The ordinary Bible read in the Church, commonly called the Bishops Bible, to be followed, and as little altered as the Truth of the original will permit.