| Joseph Milner - Church history - 1812 - 666 pages
...thought to be good reasoning by the ecclesiastics of that day. " Christ, "says he, " committed the Gospel to the clergy and doctors of the Church, that they might minister it to the laity and weaker persons, according to the exigency of times * Knyghton, tie Event.... | |
| George Stokes - 1825 - 176 pages
...the Ecclesiastics of that day reasoned on this subject. " Christ" (says one of them) " committed the Gospel to the Clergy and Doctors of the Church, that they might minister it to the laity and weaker persons, according as the times and people's wants might require;... | |
| John Fry - Church history - 1825 - 642 pages
...Wickliff, what was thought to be good reasoning by the ecclesiastics of those days3. " Christ committed the Gospel to the clergy and doctors of the church, that they might minister it to the laity and weaker persons, according to the exigency of times and persons' wants... | |
| 1829 - 192 pages
...reader. " Christ," says a learned canon of Leicester, and a contemporary of our Reformer, " committed the gospel to the clergy and doctors of the Church, that they might minister it to the laity and weaker persons, according to the exigency of the times and person's wants... | |
| Hallifield Cosgayne O'Donnoghue - 1830 - 428 pages
...Ecclesiastics of this day reasoned on this subject : — "Christ," says one of them, "committed the Gospel to the Clergy and Doctors of the Church, that they might minister it to the laity and weaker persons, according as the times and people's wants might require;... | |
| Robert Vaughan - 1831 - 458 pages
...order to the inspired records, quite as well as any modern writer. Adverting to the zeal of Wycliflfe in rendering the scriptures the property of the people,...to " weaker persons, according to the state of the " It is a carions production, and ' • Baber. Historical Account and has heen twice printed. The refc-... | |
| 1831 - 544 pages
...contemporary of Wickliff, contains evidence upon this subject too decisive not to be repeated here. He says, " Christ delivered his gospel to the clergy and doctors...according to the state of the times, and the wants of man. But this master John Wickliff translated it out of Latin into English, and thus laid it more open... | |
| Charles Webb Le Bas - 1832 - 408 pages
...Knyghton alone is sufficient to overthrow it. "Christ," says the zealous Romanist, " committed the Gospel to the clergy and doctors of the Church, that they might minister it to the laity, and weaker persons, according to the exigency of times, and the wants of... | |
| Englishmen - 1836 - 254 pages
...in England, p. 163. is said of them by an adversary : " Christ," observes Knyghton, " committed the gospel to the clergy and doctors of the church that they might minister it to the laity and weaker persons, according to the exigency of times and persons' wants... | |
| American and Foreign Bible Society - Bible - 1837 - 372 pages
...will show how hitterly the Clergy of the 14th century were opposed to the translation of the Bihle. " Christ delivered his Gospel to the Clergy and Doctors...Church, that they might administer to the laity and weaker persons, according to the state of the times and the wants of men. But this master John Wycliffe... | |
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