History of the Christian Church, Volume 2T. Y. Crowell & Company, 1894 - Church history |
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Page 162 - No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold, or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed, nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Page 511 - What shall I, frail man, be pleading ? Who for me be interceding ? When the just are mercy needing.
Page 513 - Worthless are my prayers and sighing, Yet, good Lord, in grace complying, Rescue me from fires undying. With Thy favoured sheep, O place me. Nor among the goats abase me ; But to Thy right hand upraise me.
Page 498 - Faithful cross ! above all other, One and only noble tree ! None in foliage, none in blossom, None in fruit thy peers may be : Sweetest wood, and sweetest iron ! Sweetest weight is hung on thee.
Page 8 - Silence is proclaimed by the priests, who have on this occasion a coercive power. Then the king, or chief, and such others as are conspicuous for age, birth, military renown, or eloquence, are heard ; and gain attention rather from their ability to persuade, than their authority to command. If a proposal displease, the assembly reject it by an inarticulate murmur ; if it prove agreeable, they clash their javelins ; for the most honorable expression of assent among them is the sound of arms.
Page 494 - THE day of resurrection ! Earth, tell it out abroad ; The Passover of gladness, The Passover of God. From death to life eternal, From earth unto the sky, Our Christ hath brought us over With hymns of victory.
Page 29 - Your words and promises are very fair, but as they are new to us, and of uncertain import, I cannot approve of them so far as to forsake that which I have so long followed with the whole English nation.
Page 62 - He stands alone like a beacon upon a waste, or a rock in the broad ocean.
Page 31 - ... abroad. The sparrow, I say, flying in at one door and immediately out at another, whilst he is within is safe from the wintry storm ; but after a short space of fair weather, he immediately vanishes out of your sight into the dark winter from whence he had emerged.
Page 275 - Commit thy way unto the Lord, and put thy trust in him, and he shall bring it to pass.