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Página 32 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge., and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate...
Página 180 - And where heretofore there hath been great diversity in saying and singing in churches within this realm, some following Salisbury use, some Hereford use, some the use of Bangor, some of York, and some of Lincoln, now from henceforth all the whole realm shall have but one use.
Página 188 - The sacraments were not ordained of Christ to be gazed upon, or to be carried about; but that we should duly use them. And in such only as worthily receive the same, they have a wholesome effect or operation: but they that receive them unworthily purchase to themselves damnation, as St. Paul saith.
Página 198 - And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, And shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, And gather together the dispersed of Judah From the four corners of the earth. The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, And the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, And Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
Página 131 - Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters ? 3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels ? how much more things that pertain to this life?
Página 57 - The spirit of the nine British Bishops who, on the bank of the Severn, under what was called St. Augustine's Oak, held their conference with the great Gregory's great missionary— that spirit of the old British Bishops revived and lived again in Cranmer and Ridley and Latimer. The heart of the oak was British ; and only sheltered Augustine for a time. Its root was in its native soil. And from the Severn to the sea, and over the seas to us, and over all seas, as the Church of England goes with English...
Página 168 - Christ his own self, and from the primitive and catholic church; and we are come, as near as we possibly could, to the church of the apostles and of the old catholic bishops and fathers...
Página 148 - Why else was this nation chosen before any other, that out of her as out of Sion should be proclaimed and sounded forth the first tidings and trumpet of reformation to all Europe ? And had it not been the obstinate perverseness of our prelates against the divine and admirable spirit of...
Página 33 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
Página 124 - Hildebrand was proclaiming, that the Church should be separated from the State, and the State be subordinated to ecclesiastical rule.

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