Fifty Years at Enst Brent: The Letters of George Anthony Denison, 1845-1896, Arehdeacon of Taunton

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J. Murray, 1902 - 393 páginas
 

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Página 371 - Not to covet nor desire other men's goods ; but to learn and labour truly to get mine own living, and to do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.
Página 53 - ... but only such as heretofore have been determined, ordered or adjudged to be heresy by the authority of the canonical Scriptures, or by the first four General Councils, or any of them, or by any other General Council wherein the same was declared heresy by the express and plain words of the said canonical Scriptures...
Página 222 - He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
Página 345 - God, thou that art the God of my health : and my tongue shall sing of thy righteousness.
Página 151 - 1. That in proceeding to consider the provisions of the bill for the Regulation of Public Worship, this House cannot do otherwise than take into view the lapse of more than two centuries since the enactment of the present Rubrics of the Common Prayer Book of the Church of England; the multitude of particulars embraced in the conduct of Divine service under their provisions ; the doubts occasionally attaching to their interpretation, and the number of points they are thought to leave undecided ;...
Página 87 - Edward vi., or of altar lights, the House considers that they should not be introduced into any parish church without reference to the Bishop, and that a similar reference should be made with regard to the introduction of incense in the simpler manner described in the Report. 3. That the House expresses its entire disapproval of the practice of censing persons and things...
Página 151 - 5. That, in the opinion of the House, it is also to be desired that the members of the Church, having a legitimate interest in her services, should receive ample protection against precipitate and arbitrary changes of established custom by the sole will of the clergyman and against the wishes locally prevalent among them, and that such protection does not appear to be afforded by the provisions of the Bill now before the House.
Página 74 - In 1847 he executed a deed conveying to trustees after the death of his wife $90,000 in American railroad stocks, the income to be applied in a way " most conducive to the spread of Christianity in its most simple and intelligible form, and to the unfettered exercise of the right of private judgment in matters of religion." The income from the funds was used for some time in forwarding the independent research of students for the ministry whose attainments were regarded as especially brilliant. In...
Página 379 - The First Fruits of the tomb ; For, as by man came death, by man Did resurrection come. 2 For, as in Adam all mankind Did guilt and death derive ; So, by the righteousness of Christ, Shall all be made alive. 3 If then ye risen are with Christ, Seek only how to get The things which are above, where Christ At God's right hand is set.
Página 151 - House is therefore reluctant to place in the hands of every single Bishop, on the motion of one or of three persons howsoever defined, greatly increased facilities towards procuring an absolute ruling of many points hitherto left open and reasonably allowing of diversity ; and thereby towards the establishment of an inflexible rule of uniformity throughout the land, to the prejudice, in matters indifferent, of the liberty now practically existing.

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