Antitrinitarian Biography, Or, Sketches of the Lives and Writings of Distinguished Antitrinitarians: Exhibiting a View of the State of the Unitarian Doctrine and Worship in the Principal Nations of Europe, from the Reformation to the Close of the Seventeenth Century : to which is Prefixed a History of Unitarianism in England During the Same Period, Volume 1

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Page 147 - ... unfeigned assent and consent to the use of all things in the said book contained and prescribed, in these words and no other : — " I, AB, do here declare my unfeigned assent and consent to all and everything contained and prescribed in and by the book intituled the Book of Common Prayer...
Page 119 - That such as profess faith in God by Jesus Christ (though differing in judgment from the doctrine, worship or discipline publicly held forth) shall not be restrained from, but shall be protected in, the profession of the faith and exercise of their religion; so as they abuse not this liberty to the civil injury of others and to the actual disturbance of the public peace on their parts : provided this liberty be not extended to Popery or Prelacy, nor to such as, under the profession of Christ, hold...
Page 138 - ... a Liberty to Tender Consciences and that no man shall be disquieted or called in question for differences of opinion in matters of religion which do not disturb the peace of the kingdom...
Page xxvi - They lived unknown, Till persecution dragg'd them into fame, And chased them up to heaven. Their ashes flew — No marble tells us whither. With their names No bard embalms and sanctifies his song: And history, so warm on meaner themes, Is cold on this.
Page 118 - That the Christian religion, as contained in the Scriptures, be held forth and recommended as the public profession of these nations ; and that, as soon as may be, a provision, less subject to scruple and contention, and more certain than the present...
Page 80 - Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same ; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and deliver them who, through fear of death, were all their life time subject to bondage.
Page 102 - A Testimony to the Truth of Jesus Christ, and to our Solemn League and Covenant; as also against the Errors, Heresies, and Blasphemies of these times, and the Toleration of them : wherein is inserted a Catalogue of the said Errors, &c.
Page 351 - twas no wonder, Since God3 the Dean had three, Sir, — And more by two than he Sir, For he had got but one. Now while these two were raging, — And in dispute engaging, The Master of the CHARTER* — Said both had caught a tartar, For Gods, Sir, there were...
Page 170 - ... the sacrament of the Lord's supper, according to the usage of the Church of England...

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