Essays on Various Subjects, Volume 2

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Page 287 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Page 80 - Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
Page 117 - Scriptures contain all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 147 - GENERAL Councils may not be gathered together without the commandment and will of Princes. And when they be gathered together, (forasmuch as they be an assembly of men, whereof all be not governed with the Spirit and Word of God,) they may err, and sometimes have erred, even in things pertaining unto God. Wherefore things ordained by them as necessary to salvation have neither strength nor authority, unless it may be declared that they be taken out of holy Scripture.
Page 424 - Art thou called being a servant ? care not for it : but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.
Page 384 - Gospel command us to continue, a perpetual memory of that his precious death until his coming again; hear us, O merciful Father, we most humbly beseech thee, and grant that we, receiving these thy creatures of bread and wine, according to thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ's holy institution, in remembrance of his death and passion, may be partakers of his most blessed Body and Blood...
Page 36 - A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject ; 1 1 Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
Page 306 - Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. I am the Vine ; you the branches. He that abideth in Me and I in him, the same beareth much fruit : for without Me you can do nothing.
Page 382 - That thereby no adoration is intended, or ought to be done, either unto the sacramental bread or wine, there bodily received, or unto any corporal presence of Christ's natural flesh and blood. For the sacramental bread and wine remain still in their very natural substances, and therefore may not be adored ; (for that were idolatry, to be abhorred of all faithful Christians...
Page 406 - And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

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