 | 692 pages
...service that men may attain to on earth,' is said to he, to ' preach the word of God. This serviee falls peculiarly to priests, and therefore God more straightly demands it of them. Herehy, should they produce children to God, and that is the ei1d for which God has wedded the church.... | |
 | Robert Vaughan - 1828 - 488 pages
...impression made by Wycliffe and his |'fa. followers on the mind of his contemporaries, may VreacWn be attributed, in a great degree, to their peculiar...children to " God, and that is the end for which God has i4 Homily on Philippians, c. iii. " Epistola ad Simplices Sacerdotcs. " wedded the church. Lovely it... | |
 | Thomas Murray - 1829 - 198 pages
...of Scotland, 4t, 45. God. This service falls peculiarly to priests ; and therefore God more directly demands it of them. Hereby should they produce children...that is the end for which God has wedded the church, and for this cause Jesus Christ occupied himself most in preaching, and thus did his apostles, —... | |
 | Margaret Coxe - Reformation - 1840 - 282 pages
...the following extracts from his writings : " The highest service that men may attain to on earth, is to preach the word of God. This service falls peculiarly to priests, and therefore God most straightly demands it of them. Hereby should they raise up children to God, and that is the end... | |
 | Enoch Pond - 1841 - 216 pages
...the following extracts from his writings : " The highest service that men may attain to on earth, is to preach the word of God. This service falls peculiarly to priests, and therefore God most straitly demands it of them. Hereby should they raise up children to God ; and that is the end... | |
 | Samuel Hibbert - Manchester (England) - 1848 - 238 pages
...service," remarked Wycliffe, "which men may attain upon earth is to preach the word of God, — which service falls peculiarly to priests, and therefore God more straightly demands it of them." Lancashire owes its proselytism to the missionary labours of the learned Dr. Hereford and Master John... | |
 | August Neander - Church history - 1854 - 456 pages
...against the monks2 — he says — " The highest service that men can arrive at on earth is to prcach the word of God. This service falls peculiarly to priests, and therefore God more straitly demands it of them. Hereby should they produce children to God, and that is the end for which... | |
 | August Neander - Christianity - 1855 - 608 pages
...unpublished tract against the monks 4 —he says—" The highest service that men can arrive at on earth is to preach the word of God. This service falls peculiarly to priests, and therefore God more straitly demands it of them. Hereby should they produce children to God, and that is the end for which... | |
 | Mrs. Hannah O'Brien Chaplin Conant - Bible - 1856 - 500 pages
...prohibition. " The highest service to which man may attain on earth " — such are his noble words — " is to preach the word of God. This service falls peculiarly to priests, and therefore God more straitly demands it of them.. Hereby should they produce children to God, and this is the end for which... | |
 | Hannah Chaplin Conant - Bible - 1856 - 504 pages
...service to which man may attain on earth '" — such are his noble words — " is to preach the icord of God. This service falls peculiarly to priests, and therefore God more straitly demands it of them. Hereby should they produce children to God, and this is the end for which... | |
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In an unpublished tract against the monks.J he says, " The highest service that men can arrive at on earth is to preach the word of God. This service falls peculiarly to priests, and therefore God more straitly demands it of them. Hereby should they produce... 
