History of England and France Under the House of Lancaster: With an Introductory View of the Early Reformation

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John Murray, 1855 - 473 Seiten

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Seite 414 - In reply, the king granted that " from henceforth nothing be . enacted to the petitions of his commons that be contrary to their asking, whereby they should be bound without their assent...
Seite 410 - You would then have seen pillagers, active to do mischief, running through the town, slaying men, women and children, according to their orders. It was a most melancholy business; for all ranks, ages and sexes cast themselves on their knees before the prince, begging for mercy; but he was so inflamed with passion and revenge that he listened to none...
Seite 357 - drawen children fro Christ's religion into their private " order by hypocrisie, lesings, and steling. For they " tellen that their order is more holy than any other ; " that they shullen have higher degree in the bliss of " heaven than other men that been not therein ; and " seyn, that men of their order shullen never come to " hell, but shullen dome other men with Christ at
Seite 361 - More's bigotry exceeds that of most men. It is perhaps the most remarkable instance of the prostration of great faculties by superstition. One of his principal charges against Luther is his being an enemy of crusades against the Turks. His answer to Tindale is unrivalled in weakness and in zeal.
Seite 74 - ... into hell with themselves. For Christ saith plainly unto you, ' If one blind man leadeth another, they are like both to fall into the ditch...
Seite 28 - The opinions which they maintained even assumed a bolder form after Wycliffe's decease. They denied that there had been any Pope whose title to the office was valid since Sylvester in the fourth century. All indulgences they utterly rejected as corruption; confession and absolution they regarded as sinful, and even impious ; pilgrimages, the invocation of saints, the keeping of saints' days, the use of images in worship, they plainly treated as various forms of idolatry ; all Church dignities, from...
Seite 26 - Zuinglius, who had cost off errors of Romanism to which himself still adhered. The courage that inspired both reformers to break loose from the papacy, supported them in sustaining long continued conflicts with the secular arm. But Wycliffe, though he never made any recantation, yet showed a disposition to reconcile his doctrines with those of orthodox believers when he was abandoned by his patron, Lancaster ; whereas Luther never betrayed the least desire to soften the shades of his dissent: a merit...
Seite 357 - Chil" dren fro fader and moder, sometime such as ben unable " to the Order, and sometime such as shullen susteyn their "fader and moder by the commandment of God; and " thus they ben blasphemers takin upon full councel in " * douty things that ben not expressly commanded ne far- * doubtful.
Seite 354 - that he was wonderfully astonished at his most strong arguments, with the places of authority which he had gathered, with the vehemency and force of his reasons &c.

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