...give up the law, and serve Christ. In his fifth term he left Cambridge; and as he could not subscribe "to all and every thing contained in the book of Common Prayer," he offered himself to the London Missionary Society. He was accepted by the directors; he studied at...

...before the next twenty-fourth of August, openly and publicly declare his unfeigned assent and consent to all and every thing contained in the Book of Common Prayer, or shall, ipso facto, [by the act itself,] be deprived of all his benefices! Likewise, -if any dean,...

...every beneficed minister, every fellow of a college, and even every schoolmaster, should declare his assent to all and every thing contained in the " Book of Common Prayer," and that no one should hold any preferment without episcopal ordination. For their unwillingness to...

...of them episcopal ordination, and a declaration from the inmost soul of unfeigned assent and consent to all and every thing contained in the Book of Common Prayer. What was the effect of that law ? Bigotry prevailed. Great numbers conformed, ready to make any declaration...

...minister, every fellow of a college, and every schoolmaster, was required to declare his unfeigned assent to all and every thing contained in the book of common prayer ; and every minister was required publicly to declare, that it is not lawful, on any pretence whatever,...

...upon the clerical office in the Church of England, that an ' unfeigned assent 'and consent' are given 'to all and every thing contained in the ' Book of common Prayer,' may well make one stand aghast. " The terms exclude all degrees in conviction, all doubts, all scruples...

...Episcopalians and all other bodies, both as to their churches and their schools. have sworn assent and consent to all and every thing contained in the Book of Common Prayer, have confessed the galling bondage, to say nothing of the degradation and guilt, to which the unholy...

...minister, but fellow of a college, or even school-master, should declare his unfeigned assent and consent to all and every thing contained in the book of common prayer. These words, however capable of being eluded and explained away, as such subscriptions always are,...

...ministers of the church have been considerably relaxed : instead of the " unfeigned assent and consent to all and every thing " contained in the Book of Common Prayer, he is now only required to affirm — "I assent to the thirty- nine articles of religion and to the...

...Ihould imagine the clergy, who have folemnly fubfcribed the articles, and given their afTent and confeot to all and every thing contained in the book of Common Prayer, Ihould think it their duty, not only to examine the truth, but to vindicate their own fubCcription,...