 | 1849 - 814 pages
...from the Canon which records the principle on which, as we have so often shown, our reformers acted. " So far was it from the purpose of the Church of England...confesseth, it doth with reverence retain those ceremonies, which doth neither damage the Church of GOD, nor offend the minds of sober men, and only departeth... | |
 | William Maskell - 1849 - 324 pages
...experience, the reformations she had made. " The abuse of a thing doth not take away the lawful use of it. Nay, so far was it from the purpose of the church...in all things which they held and practised, that it doth with reverence retain those ceremonies, which do neither endamage the church of God, nor offend... | |
 | Catholic Church. Councils - 1850 - 440 pages
...of popery had once possessed it. But the abuse of a thing doth not take away the lawful use of it. Nay, so far was it from the purpose of the Church...confesseth, it doth with reverence retain those ceremo'nies, which do neither endamage the Church of God, nor offend the minds of sober men ; and only departed... | |
 | Charles Grevile Prideaux - 1850 - 482 pages
...of popery had once possessed it. But the abuse of a thing doth not take away the lawful use of it. Nay, so far was it from the purpose of the church...confesseth, it doth with reverence retain those ceremonies which do neither endamage the church of God nor offend the minds of sober men ; and only departed from... | |
 | Prayer (Book of common) (U.S. protest. episc. ch.) - 1850 - 826 pages
...of popery had once possessed it. But the abuse of a thing doth not take away the lawful use of it. er (Book of common) Chnrches of Italy, France, Spain, and Germany, or any such like Churches, in all things which they... | |
 | William James Early Bennett - 1851 - 260 pages
...this ? Then turn with me to the following testimonies. 1. The Convocation of 1603. (The 30th Canon.) " So far was it from the purpose of the Church of England...confesseth, it doth with reverence retain those ceremonies which do neither endamage the aw <HJ<7r/a*phurch of God nor offend the niinds^ofjober men ; and only... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward C. Walcott - 1851 - 412 pages
...Conf. ch. ii. § vp 72. i Thirty-fourth Article of Religion. ten to the Apostles whom they succeed. " So far was it from the purpose of the Church of England...Germany, or any such like Churches, in all things that they held and practised, that, as the Apology of the Church of England confesseth, it doth with... | |
 | Church of England - 1852 - 696 pages
...of Popery had once possessed it. But the abuse of a thing doth not take away the lawful use of it. Nay, so far was it from the purpose of the Church...confesseth, it doth with reverence retain those ceremonies, which do neither endamage the church of God, nor offend the minds of sober men ; and only departed... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1852 - 462 pages
...of a trne Church." iv. xix. 8. tom. ii. p. 373, ed. 1841, and in the CANONS (Canon 29) it is said, " So far was it from the purpose of the Church of England to forsake and reject the Churches of Italy," &c. d. 5. You speak of the Church of England as existing before Popery, and as holding the ancient... | |
 | William Ingraham Kip (bp. of California.) - 1853 - 318 pages
...abused, in the Church of Rome. Bcr THE ABUSE OF A THING DOES NOT TAKE AWAY THE LAWFUL DSE OF IT. Nay, 6O far was it from the purpose of the Church of England...confesseth, it doth with reverence retain those ceremonies which do neither endamage the Church of God, nor offend the minds of sober men ; and only departeth... | |
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Nay, so far was it from the purpose of the Church of England to forsake and reject the Churches of Italy, France, Spain, Germany, or any such like churches, in all things which they held and practised... 
