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Page 506 - Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy. What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.
Page 369 - For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding ; that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God...
Page 278 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 32 - Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith ? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it ? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
Page 501 - Lord God! Eternal and Almighty Father, we acknowledge and confess before Thy holy Majesty that we are poor sinners...
Page 429 - Scotland, etc. surrender unto the queen's majesty all matter of claim, and unto the heirs of her body; and in consideration thereof, the Scottish queen's interest should be acknowledged in default of heirs of the body of the queen's majesty. Well, God send our mistress a husband, and by time a son, that we may hope our posterity shall have a masculine succession.
Page 99 - The characters of princes, too, especially among their contemporaries, depend, not only upon their talents for government, but upon their qualities as men. Francis, notwithstanding the many errors conspicuous in his foreign policy and domestic administration, was, nevertheless, humane, beneficent, generous.
Page 324 - Duo d'Alve traietoit des moyens pour exterminer tous les suspects de la Religion en France, en ce Pays et par toute la...
Page 77 - The attempt has been made to hinder the work, under cover of the authority of Parliament ; but our most generous King has become in this matter the defender of CHRIST'S cause, declaring it to be his pleasure that his kingdom shall hear the Word of GOD freely, and without hindrance, in the language...
Page 174 - Our fathers have shown us how to live in accordance with the word of God and of our mother Holy Church. In that church I am resolved to live and die, and I am determined to prove that I am entitled to be called Very Christian. I notify you that it is my will that these errors be driven from my kingdom. Nor shall I excuse any from the task. Were one of my arms infected with this poison, I should out it off! Were my own children contaminated, I should immolate them ! * I therefore now impose this duty...
Bibliographic information
| Title | History of the Rise of the Huguenots of France, Volume 1 History of the Rise of the Huguenots of France, Henry Martyn Baird |
| Author | Henry Martyn Baird |
| Publisher | Hodder and Stoughton, 1880 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jul 25, 2005 |
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