Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, Volume 40

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Chetham Society., 1856
 

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Page 121 - A Demonstration of the gross and fundamental errors of a late book, called, A plain account of the nature and end of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper.
Page 78 - For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
Page 122 - God bless the King, — I mean the Faith's Defender, God bless (no harm in blessing) the Pretender! But who Pretender is, and who the King, — God bless us all ! — that's quite another thing.
Page 13 - Shall shortly want the generous tear he pays ; Then from his closing eyes thy form shall part, And the last pang shall tear thee from his heart, Life's idle business at one gasp be o'er, The muse forgot, and thou beloved no more ! PKOLOGUE MR.
Page 101 - All I have seen of Morgan is in that pamphlet; and for my part I am amazed that any one should think it worth while to answer the most senseless and abandoned scribbler that ever came from Bedlam or the Mint. It seems Mr. Chandler either has or will answer him, being provoked and challenged to it by Morgan ; who gets his bread by this infamous practice.
Page 57 - Of so divine a Guest. Of so divine a Guest, Unworthy though I be; Yet has my heart no rest, Unless it come from Thee. Unless it come from Thee, In vain I look around; In all that I can see, No rest is to be found. No rest is to be found, But in Thy blessed love; O! let my wish be crowned, And send it from above!
Page 51 - Having been compelled by his necessities to contract, debts, and hunted, as is supposed, by the terriers of the law, he retired to a publick house on Tower-hill, where he is said to have died of want; or, as it is related by one of his biographers, by swallowing, after a long fast, a piece of bread which charity had supplied. He went out, as is reported, almost naked, in the rage of hunger, and...
Page 236 - Surely we read that no man can call Jesus Lord, but by the Holy Ghost; and that the natural man understandeth not the things of the Spirit, for they are spiritually discerned, Rom.
Page 97 - B. hinted at a time when the whole Christian Church almost was in the wrong, and then what must become of authority? And I said I did not apprehend that there had been such a time, thinking that he meant the Arian times, which were probably not so universal, as Dr. Deacon had[,] I believe[,] rightly observed once, viz. that it was only a flight of St. Jerome.
Page 182 - It is very observable, that there is not one command in all the Gospel for public worship ; and perhaps it is a duty that is least insisted upon in Scripture of any other. The frequent attendance at it is never so much as mentioned in all the New Testament. Whereas that religion or devotion which is to govern the ordinary actions of our life is to be found in almost every verse of Scripture.

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