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... laws , with the sword always hanging over their heads , nothing could make them flinch from duty , or consent to obey man rather than God . In his correspondence with the government , the great father of the reformation in Ireland , Dr ...
... laws , with the sword always hanging over their heads , nothing could make them flinch from duty , or consent to obey man rather than God . In his correspondence with the government , the great father of the reformation in Ireland , Dr ...
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... laws , and cruel persecu- tions , and that the principal agents employed to establish it in Ireland , were men remarkable for their avarice and rapacity , their cruelty and immorality . What a contrast does its history present with that ...
... laws , and cruel persecu- tions , and that the principal agents employed to establish it in Ireland , were men remarkable for their avarice and rapacity , their cruelty and immorality . What a contrast does its history present with that ...
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... laws , and persecution , and the sword , have been in vain employed to separate them from the rock of Peter , and from the true faith , which overcometh the world . With profound respect , I have the honor to be Your very obedient ...
... laws , and persecution , and the sword , have been in vain employed to separate them from the rock of Peter , and from the true faith , which overcometh the world . With profound respect , I have the honor to be Your very obedient ...
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... laws - the offspring of a cruel and hypocritical despotism- had reduced our country at that period , will explain why the see of Dublin was so long deprived of pastors during the sixteenth century . At the same time every Irish Catholic ...
... laws - the offspring of a cruel and hypocritical despotism- had reduced our country at that period , will explain why the see of Dublin was so long deprived of pastors during the sixteenth century . At the same time every Irish Catholic ...
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... laws which made the great alteration in the state ecclesiastical . " * Phoenix , loc . cit . pag . 121 ; Harleian Miscel . , etc. † George Cromer , archbishop of Armagh . The parliament was summoned in 1536 , and the chief 6 [ INTROD ...
... laws which made the great alteration in the state ecclesiastical . " * Phoenix , loc . cit . pag . 121 ; Harleian Miscel . , etc. † George Cromer , archbishop of Armagh . The parliament was summoned in 1536 , and the chief 6 [ INTROD ...
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Page 164 - Let others better mould the running mass Of metals, and inform the breathing brass, And soften into flesh a marble face; Plead better at the bar; describe the skies, And when the stars descend, and when they rise: But, Rome! 'tis thine alone, with awful sway, « To rule mankind, and make the world obey, Disposing peace and war thy own majestic way; To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free: These are imperial arts, and worthy thee.
Page 9 - God, the increase of virtue in Christ's religion, and for the conservation of the peace, unity and tranquillity of this realm: any usage, custom, foreign laws, foreign authority, prescription or any other thing or things to the contrary hereof notwithstanding.
Page 121 - And sure it is yet a most beautiful and sweet country as any is under heaven, being stored throughout with many goodly rivers, replenished with all sorts of fish, most abundantly sprinkled with many very sweet islands and goodly lakes, like little inland seas...
Page 9 - And that our said sovereign lord, his heirs and successors kings of this realm, shall have full power and authority from time to time to visit, repress, redress, reform, order, correct, restrain and amend all such errors, heresies, abuses, offences, contempts and enormities, whatsoever they be, which by any manner spiritual authority or jurisdiction ought or may lawfully be reformed...
Page 109 - They were stoned, they were cut asunder, they were tempted, they were put to death by the sword, they wandered about in sheep-skins, in goat-skins, being in want, distressed, afflicted: of whom the world was not worthy ; wandering in deserts, in mountains, and in dens, and in caves of the earth.
Page 122 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 63 - Baptist next coming be bounden to say and use the Matins, Evensong, celebration of the Lord's Supper, and administration of each of the Sacraments, and all their Common and open Prayer, in such order and form as is mentioned in the said book...
Page 129 - And no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground.
Page 47 - I am here as another Micheas, and will lay down my life to prove all those things true which he hath taught out of the holy scripture. And to this combat I challenge you before God and all equal judges.
Page 124 - ... country. Besides this, such horrible and lamentable spectacles there are to behold, as the burning of villages, the ruin of churches, the wasting of such as have been good towns and castles : yea, the view of the bones and sculls of your dead subjects, who partly by murder, partly by famine, have died in the fields, as, in troth, hardly any Christian with dry eyes could behold.