The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest, Volume 2B. Tauchnitz, 1849 - London (England) |
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Page 195 - you mark the word? And yet more particular is the next verse, wherein it is said: — 'Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.' And then Cometh the denunciation of divine anger against such offenders, in these awful words : — 'For all that do these things are an abomination unto
Page 195 - and because of these abominations, the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.' Again, it is said in Leviticus, that 'the Lord setteth his face against such, to cut them off.' And in Exodus, the law is expressly laid down thus
Page 264 - and ither sports, therewith used, provided the same be had in due and convenient time, without impediment or neglect of divine service. And our will further is, that women shall have leave to carry rushes to the church, for the decoring of it, according to auld custom. But we prohibit all unlawful games on Sundays, as bear-baiting and bull-baiting, interludes, and, by the common
Page 264 - for when," he continued, loudly and emphatically — "when shall the common people have leave to exercise, if not upon Sundays and holidays, seeing they must labour, and win their living on all other days?
Page 5 - form : and even some of the best, that their patience may be tried before the world as Job's was tried. For why may not God use any kind of extraordinary punishment, when it pleases Him, as well as the ordinary rods of sickness, or other adversities
Page 5 - that, of any thing that the devil and his wicked instruments can do against us, for we daily fight against him in a hundred other ways, and therefore as a valiant captain affrays no more being at the combat, nor stays from his purpose for the rummishing shot of a cannon, nor the small clack of a pistolet
Page 5 - are three kind of folks who may be tempted or troubled: the wicked for their horrible sins, to punish them in the like measure ; the godly that are sleeping in any great sins or infirmities, and weakness in faith, to waken them up the faster by such
Page 303 - thy service straight he will commend These foresters, and charge them to attend Thy pleasure in this park, and show such sport To the chief huntsman and thy princely court, As the small circle of this round affords. And be more ready than he was in words."*
Page 302 - And now the landlord of this ancient Tower, Thrice fortunate to see this happy hour, Whose trembling heart thy presence sets on fire,
Page 176 - and whom he had invited to Downham for a few weeks' hunting, and had never been able to get rid of him since. Lawrence Fogg liked his quarters immensely, and determined to remain in them ; and as a means to so desirable an end, he studied all the squire's weak points