Priestcraft defended. A sermon occasioned by the expulsion of six young gentlemen from the University of Oxford, for praying, reading, and expounding the Scriptures. By the ShaverG. Keith, in Gracechurch-Street, J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard, and J. Gurney, at No. 54, in Holbourn, 1771 - Methodism - 48 pages |
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... death , and fewer ftill who were given to the furgeons . Well , what fhould he do , think you ? why , my beloved , being bleft with better ftars at his nativity than his predeceffors , he took their confufed and immethodical practices ...
... death , and fewer ftill who were given to the furgeons . Well , what fhould he do , think you ? why , my beloved , being bleft with better ftars at his nativity than his predeceffors , he took their confufed and immethodical practices ...
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... death to all diffenters : It seems this prince was too eafy ; and like fome of our for- · mer princes in England , was fo much afraid of the clergy , that he was obliged to conform , and fo efpoufed an act of uniformity which the clergy ...
... death to all diffenters : It seems this prince was too eafy ; and like fome of our for- · mer princes in England , was fo much afraid of the clergy , that he was obliged to conform , and fo efpoufed an act of uniformity which the clergy ...
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... all the inns and outs might have fretted themselves to death , without being able to do any thing against this prime mi- nifter , this fame Daniel , the king's favourite , if if they had not applied to the principal cler- gy [ 25 ]
... all the inns and outs might have fretted themselves to death , without being able to do any thing against this prime mi- nifter , this fame Daniel , the king's favourite , if if they had not applied to the principal cler- gy [ 25 ]
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... death without expelling him . Now left any should object to the clergy having the honour of devifing this fcheme , becaufe there is no notice taken of them in the history , let it be observed , that it was ne- ver known that many great ...
... death without expelling him . Now left any should object to the clergy having the honour of devifing this fcheme , becaufe there is no notice taken of them in the history , let it be observed , that it was ne- ver known that many great ...
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... death for praying , reading , and expounding the fcrip- tures ; but our univerfities have no fuch law , or it is no way doubtful but that the fame zeal which will , under a proteftant government , expel the students of the univerfity ...
... death for praying , reading , and expounding the fcrip- tures ; but our univerfities have no fuch law , or it is no way doubtful but that the fame zeal which will , under a proteftant government , expel the students of the univerfity ...
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Page 28 - Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house ; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
Page 20 - Dr. , [Dixon,] one of the heads of houses present, observed, that as these six gentlemen were expelled for having too much religion, it would be very proper to inquire into the conduct of some who had too little ; and Mr.
Page 35 - And in thofe days, when the number of the difciples was " multiplied, and the word of God increafed, and the " number of the difciples multiplied in Jerufalem greatly, " and a great company of the priefts were obedient to the
Page 20 - ... orator of the university gives a full account of the case of Mr. W — 11 — ng, a friend of his oratorship's, who was charged upon oath with the above said contempt of the scripture, and ridicule of the miracles of Moses and Christ. The proofs were so point blank against the said Rev. Mr.