Robert Sanderson: Chaplain to King Charles the First, Regius Professor of Divinity, Oxford, and Bishop of Lincoln

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S.P.C.K., 1924 - 196 pages
 

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Page 17 - The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear : for several virtues Have I liked several women ; never any With so full soul, but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil : but you, O you, So perfect, and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best.
Page 117 - And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
Page 188 - I commend my soul into the hands of Almighty God as of a faithful Creator, which I humbly beseech Him mercifully to accept, looking upon it not as it is in itself, infinitely polluted with sin, but as it is redeemed and purged with the precious blood of His only beloved Son, and my most sweet Saviour Jesus Christ...
Page 46 - God hath over all: and by the natural law, whereunto he hath made all subject, the lawful power of making laws to command whole politic societies of men belongeth so properly unto the same entire societies, that for any prince or potentate of what kind soever upon earth to exercise the same of himself, and not either by express commission immediately and personally received from God, or else by authority derived at the first from their consent upon whose persons they impose laws, it is no better...
Page 97 - ... a spirit of puritanical disaffection. This procedure, which was wholly founded on the canon law, consisted in a series of interrogations, so comprehensive as to embrace the whole scope of clerical uniformity, yet so precise and minute as to leave no room for evasion, to which the suspected party was bound to answer upon oath.
Page 36 - We see the experiment of it daily in the grafting of trees, a crabstock, if it have a cion of some delicate apple artfully grafted in it ; look what branches are suffered to grow out of the stock itself, they will all follow the nature of the stock, and if they bring forth any fruit at all, it will be sour and styptic.
Page 5 - Good Doctor, give me my sermon ; and know, that neither you nor any man living, shall ever persuade me to preach again without my books.
Page 31 - Calling is necessary in regard of the Public. God hath made us sociable creatures, contrived us into policies, and societies, and commonwealths; made us fellowmembers of one body, and every one another's members. As therefore we are not born, so neither must we live, to and for ourselves alone; but our parents, and friends, and...
Page 177 - Preface, to do that which, according to her best understanding, might most tend to the preservation of peace and unity in the Church; the procuring of reverence, and the exciting of piety and devotion in the worship of God; and, finally, the cutting off occasion, from them that seek occasion, of cavil or quarrel against her Liturgy.
Page 188 - I do profess that, as I have lived, so I desire, and, by the grace of God, resolve to die in the communion of the Catholic Church of Christ, and a true son of the Church of England...

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