The Reformers: Lectures Delivered in St. James' Church, Paisley, by Ministers of the United Presbyterian Church, Etc

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J. Maclehose & Sons, 1885 - 470 pages
 

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Page 304 - The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.
Page 303 - Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither!" and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, "Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant." But he knoweth not that the dead are there ; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
Page 40 - ... 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.
Page 176 - I long that the husbandman should sing portions of them to himself as he follows the plough, that the weaver should hum them to the tune of his shuttle, that the traveller should beguile with these stories the tedium of his journey.
Page 421 - Whereat the said John, abashed, burst forth in most abundant ' tears, and withdrew himself to his chamber. His countenance ' and behaviour, from that day till the day that he was compelled ' to present himself to the public place of preaching, did sufficiently ' declare the grief and trouble of his heart ; for no man saw any ' sign of mirth in him, neither yet had he pleasure to accompany
Page 170 - ... more frequently than against those, who, at the instigation of the devil, and not having the fear of God before their eyes, do feloniously and maliciously attempt to lessen and impair St.
Page 454 - Knox is said to have inculcated, " that the best way to keep the rooks from returning, was to pull down their nests.
Page 181 - Goethe — says of Luther that he threw back the intellectual progress of mankind for centuries by calling in the passions of the multitude to decide on subjects which ought to have been left to the learned.
Page 172 - Saviour shall interrupt them with this answer, Woe unto you, scribes and pharisees, hypocrites, verily I know you not; I left you but one precept, of loving one another, which I do not hear any one plead he has faithfully discharged: I told you plainly in my gospel, without any parable, that my father's kingdom was prepared not for such as should lay claim to it by austerities, prayers, or fastings, but for those who should render themselves worthy of it by the exercise of faith, and the offices...
Page 217 - A Christian man is the most free lord of all, and subject to none; a Christian man is the most dutiful servant of all, and subject to 'every one.

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