The Ecclesiastical History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period to the Present Times, Volume 1Macmillan, 1875 - Church and state |
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... priesthood— Proposal to make soldiers bishops— Gross ignorance and incompetency of the clergy - State of the diocese of Meath - Unworthy bishops , Middleton , Sheyne , and others - Only four of the prelates could preach - Extraordinary ...
... priesthood— Proposal to make soldiers bishops— Gross ignorance and incompetency of the clergy - State of the diocese of Meath - Unworthy bishops , Middleton , Sheyne , and others - Only four of the prelates could preach - Extraordinary ...
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... priests - Character of the Papal clergy — Proclamation for their banishment ; its illegality - The Mandates ; their illegality - Many cities and towns refuse obedience - Recusants fined and imprisoned - Government cannot carry out its ...
... priests - Character of the Papal clergy — Proclamation for their banishment ; its illegality - The Mandates ; their illegality - Many cities and towns refuse obedience - Recusants fined and imprisoned - Government cannot carry out its ...
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... priests , and persons of every dignity were ordained - seven hundred bishops and three thousand priests were their number . " The wirters who make these announcements may have been desirous to exalt the fame of Patrick ; but , if they ...
... priests , and persons of every dignity were ordained - seven hundred bishops and three thousand priests were their number . " The wirters who make these announcements may have been desirous to exalt the fame of Patrick ; but , if they ...
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... priest , " says Dr. Lanigan , was too well acquainted with the discipline of the Church to imagine that he could inflict such a punish- ment as general excommunication . " - Ecc . Hist . ii . 279. Dr. Lanigan seems to have forgotten ...
... priest , " says Dr. Lanigan , was too well acquainted with the discipline of the Church to imagine that he could inflict such a punish- ment as general excommunication . " - Ecc . Hist . ii . 279. Dr. Lanigan seems to have forgotten ...
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... priesthood , were surrounded with a crowd of Hibernian scholars as a fierce boar in the midst of a growling ring of mastiffs — with his grammatical tooth at once ready for the onslaught , he scatters with ease the rebel phalanxes . " 2 ...
... priesthood , were surrounded with a crowd of Hibernian scholars as a fierce boar in the midst of a growling ring of mastiffs — with his grammatical tooth at once ready for the onslaught , he scatters with ease the rebel phalanxes . " 2 ...
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Page 122 - On Lough Neagh's bank as the fisherman strays, When the clear, cold eve's declining, He sees the round towers of other days, In the wave beneath him shining! Thus shall memory often, in dreams sublime, Catch a glimpse of the days that are over, Thus, sighing, look through the waves of time For the long-faded glories they cover!
Page 536 - The Church hath power to decree Rites or Ceremonies, and authority in Controversies of Faith: and yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God's Word written, neither may it so expound one place of Scripture, that it be repugnant to another.
Page 385 - I have commanded you, and lo ! I am with you alway, even to the end of the world.
Page 154 - GIVE ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubim, shine forth.
Page 535 - It is not lawful for any man to take upon him the office of public preaching, or ministering the Sacraments in the Congregation, before he be lawfully called, and sent to execute the same. And those we ought to judge lawfully called and sent, which be chosen and called to this work by men who have public authority given unto them in the Congregation, to call and send Ministers into the Lord's vineyard.
Page 529 - Works done before the grace of Christ, and the inspiration of his Spirit, are not pleasant to God, forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Jesus Christ...
Page 529 - THE Son, which is the Word of the Father, begotten from everlasting of the Father, the very and eternal God, of one substance with the Father, took man's nature in the womb of the Blessed Virgin, of her substance : so that two whole and perfect natures — that is to say, the Godhead and Manhood — were joined together in one Person, never to be divided ; whereof is one Christ, very God and very Man...
Page 154 - As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
Page 530 - They also are to be had accursed that presume to say, That every man shall be saved by the Law or Sect which he professeth, so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that Law, and the light of Nature. For Holy Scripture doth set out unto us only the Name of Jesus Christ, whereby men must be saved.
Page 450 - University," under the style and title of the " College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity near Dublin, founded by Queen Elizabeth.