 | George Punchard - Church history - 1865 - 618 pages
...which was before precious to both clergy and laity, is rendered, as it were, the common jest of both. The jewel of the church is turned into the sport of the people, and what was hitherto the principal gift of the clergy and divines, is made forever common... | |
 | John Brown - 1866 - 602 pages
...which was before precious both to clergy and laity is rendered, as it were, the common j«t of both. hortly after we h people ; and what had hitherto been the choice gift of the clergy and of divine« is made for ever... | |
 | O'dell Travers Hill - Monasticism and religious orders - 1867 - 564 pages
...dangerous as this. " The Gospel pearl is cast abroad, and trodden under foot of swine," they said. " The jewel of the Church is turned into the sport of the laity." They had nothing to do but to throw up their orders, for the Church had no need of them. Wiclif merely... | |
 | 1871 - 588 pages
...enemies were busy, and they said : ' The gospel pearl is cast abroad, and trodden under foot of swine ; the jewel of the Church is turned into the sport of the laity.' But Wycliffe replied, that ' the laws of the bishops were not matters of faith, and that the apostles... | |
 | John Dowling - Papacy - 1871 - 962 pages
...which was before precious both to clergy and laity, is rendered as it were the common jest of both ! The jewel of the church is turned into the sport of the people, and what was hitherto the principal gift of the clergy and divines, is made for ever common... | |
 | England - 1873 - 664 pages
...; and that which used to bo precious to both clergy and laity, is made, as it were, the common je*t of both, and the jewel of the Church is turned into the sport of the laity." In what light Wycliffo was held by the Romish Church, was seen at his death more than during his life.... | |
 | George Mather (Wesleyan minister.) - 1874 - 176 pages
...and that which was before precious to both clergy, is rendered as it were the common jest of both. The jewel of the Church is turned into the sport of the people, and what was hitherto the principal gift of the clergy and divines is made for ever common... | |
 | William Marshall - Great Britain - 1875 - 338 pages
...; and that which used to be precious to both clergy and laity is made, as it were, the common jest of both ; and the jewel of the Church is turned into the sport of the people ; and that which was before the chief talent of the clergy and doctors of the Church, is made... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1876 - 954 pages
...which was before precious both to clergy and laity, is rendered, as it were, the common jest of both. The jewel of the church is turned into the sport of the people, and what had hitherto been the choice gift of the clergy and of divines, is made for ever common... | |
 | M. J. Guest - Great Britain - 1879 - 700 pages
...which was before precious both to clergy and laity is rendered, as it were, the common jest of both ! The jewel of the Church is turned into the sport of the people, and what was hitherto the principal gift of the clergy and divines is made for ever common... | |
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... clergy and laity, is rendered as it were the common jest of both ! The jewel of the church is turned into the sport of the people, and what was hitherto the principal gift of the clergy and divines, is made for ever common to the laity. 
