The Elizabethan Religious Settlement: A Study of Contemporary Documents

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G. Bell, 1907 - 595 páginas
 

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Página 88 - THE body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was given for thee, preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life ! Take and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for thee ; and feed on him in thy heart by faith with thanksgiving.
Página 19 - Provided always, and be it enacted, that such ornaments of the church and of the ministers thereof shall be retained and be in use as was in this Church of England by authority of parliament in the second year of the reign of King Edward the Sixth until other order shall be therein taken by the authority of the queen's majesty, with the advice of her commissioners appointed and authorized under the great seal of England for causes ecclesiastical or of the metropolitan of this realm.
Página 19 - That such Ornaments of the Church and of the Ministers thereof, shall be retained and be in use, as was in this Church of England by authority of Parliament, in the second year of the reign of King Edward the Sixth...
Página 27 - We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord. THAT it may please Thee to keep and strengthen in the true worshipping of Thee, in righteousness and holiness of life, Thy servant Victoria, our most gracious Queen and governor ; We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
Página 406 - The scenic apparatus of divine worship is now under agitation; and those very things which you and I have so often laughed at, are now seriously and solemnly entertained by certain persons (for we are not consulted) as if the Christian religion could not exist without something tawdry.
Página 249 - If not what it had been in its essence, it could retain the form of what it had been — the form which made it respectable, without the power which made it dangerous. The image, in its outward aspect, could be made to correspond with the parent tree ; and to sustain the illusion, it was necessary to provide bishops who could appear to have inherited their powers by the approved method, as successors of the apostles.
Página 508 - For as soon as they had once commenced singing in public, in only one little church in London, immediately not only the churches in the neighbourhood, but even the towns far distant, began to vie with each other in the same practice. You may now sometimes see at Paul's Cross, after the service, six thousand persons, old and young, of both sexes, all singing together and praising God.
Página 326 - I am informed that the greatest part of our gentlemen are not well affected to godly religion, and that amongst the people there are many remanents of the old superstitions. They keep holydays and fasts abrogated ; they offer money, eggs, etc., at the burial of their dead ; they pray on beads, etc. ; so as this seemeth to be, as it were, another Church, rather than a member of the rest.
Página 522 - Easter; and indeed he lies not, for he has a quarrel to the Sacrament. He would make a bad martyr, and a good traveller, for his conscience is so large he could never wander out of it, and in Constantinople would be circumcised with a reservation.
Página 16 - English; until consultation may be had by parliament, by her Majesty and her three estates of this realm, for the better conciliation and accord of such causes as at this present are moved in matters and ceremonies of religion.

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