An ecclesiastical history of Scotland, in a series of letters1788 |
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Page 122 - Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona ; for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Page 433 - That no man is without sin so long as he liveth ; 4. That every true Christian " may know himself to be in a state of grace ; 5. That a man is not justified by works, but " by faith only ; 6. That good works make not a good man, but that a good man doeth good
Page 460 - ... so that the King, as far as I can see, is of force driven to use the bishops and his clergy, as his only ministers, for the direction of his realm. They be the men of wit and policy that I see here" — ' Letters and Negociations,
Page 292 - Divine Omnipotence, transubstantiated into His Body, and the wine into His Blood ; that, for completing the mysterious union between Christ and His Church, we may receive His human nature, as He was pleased to take ours.
Page 219 - Thou fhalt make me hear of joy and gladnefs : that the bones which Thou haft broken may rejoice Turn Thy face from my fins : and put out all my mifdeeds.
Page 452 - From that time anyone who denied the king to be the Supreme Head of the Church of England was liable to a traitor's death.
Page 433 - That no man is without sin altogether, so long as he liveth. 4. That every true Christian may know himself to be in a state of grace. 5. That a man is not justified by works, but by faith only. 6. That good works make not a good man, but that a good man...
Page 432 - he lived bishop of this see, and was herein most unfortunate, that under the shadow of his authority many good men were put to death for the cause of religion, though he himself was neither violently set, nor much solicitous (as it was thought) how matters went in the church.
Page 295 - Chrift, and fhall deny v>nrx^ " that wonderful and fingular converfion of the •' whole fubftance of the bread into the body, " and of the whole fubftance of the wine into " the blood, the fpecies only of the bread ancl ** wine remaining, which converfion the Catholic " church has for weighty reafons called Tranfub" ftantiaticn, let him be Anathema.
Page 442 - King's favourite, in conjunction with the Archbifhop of Canterbury, or any other Englifh Prelate, to examine...