A Plea for the Non-conformists: Shewing the True State of Their Case ...

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Página 71 - If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.
Página 81 - Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
Página 44 - But yet if there be any of you, who knoweth any impediment or notable crime in any of...
Página 82 - And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words that they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.
Página 56 - This presumptuous imposing of the senses of men upon the words of God, the special senses of men upon the general words of God, and laying them upon men's consciences together, under the equal penalty of death and damnation, this vain conceit that we can speak of the things of God better than in the words of God ; this deifying our own interpretations and tyrannous enforcing them upon others ; this restraining of the word of God from that latitude and generality, and the understandings of men from...
Página 45 - Father of heaven. Have mercy upon us. O God the Son, Redeemer of the world, Have mercy upon us.
Página 69 - I find them so curiously penned, so full of branches and circumstances, that I think the inquisition of Spain used not so many questions to comprehend and to trap their priests. I know your canonists can defend these with all their particles; but surely, under correction, this judicial and canonical sifting poor ministers is not to edify or reform.
Página 56 - ... deifying our own interpretations, and tyrannous enforcing them upon others: this restraining of the word of God from that latitude and generality, and the understandings of men from that liberty, wherein Christ and the apostles left them, is, and hath been, the only fountain of all the schisms of the church, and that which makes them immortal; the common incendiary of Christendom, and that which (as I said before} tears into pieces, not the coat, but the bowels and members of Christ.
Página 23 - Perfon tolerably well perfwaded of the lawfulnefs of what is to be done, but yet he doth not like or approve of it, he hath fome little Reafons and Exceptions againft it, it is not the beft and fittefr, a!) things conferred.
Página 66 - ... celebrated in the chapel with organs and other musical instruments, and the most excellent voices, both of men and children, that could be got in all the kingdom. The gentlemen and children in their surplices, and the priests in copes, as often as they attended the divine service at the holy altar.

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