A Statement of Some Reasons for Continuing to Protestants the Whole Legislature of Great Britain and Ireland: In Reply to the Considerations of the Reverend John Davison |
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... better placed than that Church which may now almost be called its rival , we are not therefore to weaken our Church , and endanger its position , when we know that many Dissenters would seek to destroy the ascendancy of our Church ...
... better placed than that Church which may now almost be called its rival , we are not therefore to weaken our Church , and endanger its position , when we know that many Dissenters would seek to destroy the ascendancy of our Church ...
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... better adapted for that purpose , so steadily kept in view . After a succession of such changes , it may happen that every expedient , that is to say , every law of those once co - existent together , may have been changed , and yet the ...
... better adapted for that purpose , so steadily kept in view . After a succession of such changes , it may happen that every expedient , that is to say , every law of those once co - existent together , may have been changed , and yet the ...
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... the means of , a better acquaintance with his duties . But the assumption of an anomaly , without any qualifying epithet , is unfair , and tends to beg the question : it implies , " that all men have an equal right to be 41 [ VIII .
... the means of , a better acquaintance with his duties . But the assumption of an anomaly , without any qualifying epithet , is unfair , and tends to beg the question : it implies , " that all men have an equal right to be 41 [ VIII .
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... better off , than our neighbours . It must be added , that Great Britain is the strong hold of Protestantism , and has received an important trust from the King of Kings ; for the due discharge of which , her legislators are more ...
... better off , than our neighbours . It must be added , that Great Britain is the strong hold of Protestantism , and has received an important trust from the King of Kings ; for the due discharge of which , her legislators are more ...
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... better than by providing for the end that Protestant majority is valuable for , and continuing Papists , as we find them , incapa- ble of election . " XIII . Whether , therefore , it is reasonable to anticipate the loss of Protestant ...
... better than by providing for the end that Protestant majority is valuable for , and continuing Papists , as we find them , incapa- ble of election . " XIII . Whether , therefore , it is reasonable to anticipate the loss of Protestant ...
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Page 13 - Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same? — The king or queen shall say, I solemnly promise so to do.
Page 13 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by the law? And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them? King or queen: All this I promise to do.
Page 66 - If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed : for he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
Page 7 - Majesty the chief government, by which titles we understand the minds of some slanderous folks to be offended, we give not to our princes the ministering either of God's word or of the Sacraments...
Page 68 - But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth ; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. 21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.
Page 19 - Papist, shall be excluded, and be for ever incapable to inherit, possess, or enjoy the Crown and government of this realm, and Ireland, and the dominions thereunto belonging, or any part of the same, or to have, use, or...
Page 10 - Subject, is and stands limited to the Princess Sophia, electoress and duchess dowager of Hanover, and the heirs of her body, being Protestants. And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear, according to these express words by me spoken, and according to the plain and common sense and understanding of the same words, without any equivocation, mental evasion, or secret reservation whatsoever ; and I do make this recognition, acknowledgment, abjuration, renunciation, and promise,...
Page 66 - That it be the fifth Article of Union, That the Churches of England and Ireland, as now by law established, be united into one Protestant Episcopal Church, to be called, ' The United Church of England and Ireland...
Page 7 - God's Word, or of the Sacraments, the which thing the Injunctions also lately set forth by Elizabeth our Queen do most plainly testify ; but that only prerogative, which we see to have been given always to all godly Princes in holy Scriptures by God himself; that is, that they should rule all estates and degrees committed to their charge by God, whether they be ecclesiastical or temporal, and restrain with the civil sword the stubborn and evil doers.
Page 10 - I, AB, do truly and sincerely acknowledge, profess, testify and declare in my conscience before God and the world that our sovereign Lord King...