 | Robert Vaughan, John Wycliffe - Lollards - 1828 - 472 pages
...ligious possessioners, are so occupied in heart " about worldly lordships, and with pleas of busi" ness, that no habit of devotion, of praying, of " thoughtfulness...gospel, nor visiting ' ' and comforting of poor men . ' 'i5 The consequence accordingly, of tolerating churchmen, as " rich " clerks of the chancery, of... | |
 | Charles Webb Le Bas - Reformers - 1832 - 422 pages
...habit of devotion, of praying, of thoughtfulness on heavenly things, on the sins of their own heart, or those of other men, may be preserved ; neither may...Gospel, nor visiting and comforting of poor men." And the miserable effect of this desertion of their sacred ministry, he describes to be, that the churchmen,... | |
 | Charles Webb Le Bas - Reformers - 1832 - 414 pages
...habit of devotion, of praying, of thoughtfulness on heavenly things, on the sins of their own heart, or those of other men, may be preserved ; neither may they be found studying and preaching.of the Gospel, nor visiting and comforting of poor men." And the miserable effect of this... | |
 | Sarus Adrian J. de Ruever Groneman - 1837 - 312 pages
...no habit of devotion , of praying, of thoughtfulness on heavenly things, on the sins of their oюn heart , or on those of other men , may be preserved...wilfull poverty , and discreet penance and ghostly trat eile. Vid. Vaughan. Vol. I. p. 3!5. Festive et vеrе alibi depinxit principum eui temporis clericorum... | |
 | Enoch Pond - 1841 - 216 pages
...of devotion, of praying, of thoughtfulness on heavenly things, on the sins of their own hearts, or those of other men, may be preserved. Neither may...gospel, nor visiting and comforting of poor men." The consequence, he says, is, that those churchmen who become " rich clerks of chancery, of the common... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - Spain - 1847 - 294 pages
...worldly lordships and with pleas of business, that no habit of devotion, of praying, of though tfulness on Heavenly things, on the sins of their own heart...Gospel, nor visiting and comforting of poor men." This is not at all exaggerated, so far as we can read ; men were priests chiefly that they might be... | |
 | 1851 - 202 pages
...state to be filled up from among the ranks of the laity. The man who dared to complain that " prelates and great religious possessioners are so occupied...gospel, nor visiting and comforting of poor men," could hardly hope to escape the deep resentment of his own order. He was misunderstood, misrepresented,... | |
 | August Neander - Church history - 1854 - 456 pages
...prelates and great religious possessioners are so occupied in heart about worldly lordships and with plans of business, that no habit of devotion, of praying,...gospel, nor visiting and comforting of poor men." In a manuseript of " Feigned Contemplative Life," he says : " they resemble bailiffs rather than bishops... | |
 | August Neander - Church history - 1858 - 730 pages
...thoughtfulness on heavenly things, on the sins of their own heart, or on those of other men, may bo preserved ; neither may they be found studying and...gospel, nor visiting and comforting of poor men."* In a manuscript of " Feigned Contemplative Life," he says: "They resemble bailiffs rather than bishops... | |
 | August Neander - Church history - 1872 - 464 pages
...religious possessioners are so occupied in heart about worldly lordships and with plans of business,-that no habit of devotion, of praying, of thoughtfulness...gospel, nor visiting and comforting of poor men." In a manuscript of " Feigned Contemplative Life," he says : " they resemble bailiffs rather than bishops... | |
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In another treatise he complains that " prelates and great religious possessioners are so occupied in heart about worldly lordships and with plans of business, that no habit of devotion, of praying, of thoughtfulness on heavenly things, on the sins of... 
