The Harleian Miscellany, Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as Well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford's Library, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes, Volume 11

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R. Dutton, 1810 - Great Britain
 

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Page 151 - Council, and to all that are put in authority under her, that they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to the maintenance of thy true religion and virtue. Give grace, O heavenly Father, to all Bishops and Curates, that they may both by their life and doctrine set forth thy true and lively Word, and rightly and duly administer thy holy Sacraments...
Page 348 - Christ crucified, and manfully to fight under his banner against sin, the world, and the devil, and to continue his faithful soldier and servant unto thy life's end. Amen.
Page 34 - ... the woods, and up the rocks and hills. as we perceived when we employed him to catch goats for us : we had a bull-dog, which we sent with several of our nimblest runners, to help him in catching goats ; but he distanced and tired both the dog and the men, caught the goats, and brought them to us on his back.
Page 35 - The winter lasts no longer than June and July, and is not then severe, there being only a small frost, and a little hail ; but sometimes great rains. The heat of the summer is equally moderate ; and there is not much thunder, or tempestuous weather of any sort.
Page 348 - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God : but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Page 413 - ... many rare engines, not known then in these parts — as the art to...
Page 33 - ... without discovering him. He told us that he was born at Largo in the county of Fife in Scotland, and was bred a sailor from his youth. The reason of his being left here was a difference betwixt him and his Captain...
Page 34 - When his powder failed, he took them by speed of foot.; for his way of living, continual exercise of walking and running, cleared him of all gross humours ; so that he ran with wonderful swiftness through the woods, and up the rocks and hills, as we...
Page 457 - God shall appear, we shall be like him, and shall see him as he is; therefore every one that hath this hope, purifieth himself, even as he is pure. We cannot see God as he is, without being like him; it is impossible to be like him, without being purified not only from acts of injustice, but also from...
Page 33 - At first he never ate anything till hunger constrained him, partly for grief, and partly for want of bread and salt. Nor did he go to bed till he could watch no longer; the...

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