Priestcraft defended. A sermon occasioned by the expulsion of six young gentlemen from the University of Oxford, for praying, reading, and expounding the Scriptures. By the ShaverG. Keith, in Gracechurch-Street, J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard, and J. Gurney, at No. 54, in Holbourn, 1771 - 48 pages |
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... doctor is himself tinctured with methodistical tenets ; for no body , now - a - days , befides methodists , & c . confiders the thirty - nine articles of the éstablished church as any teft of doctrine : as for the clergy , it is well ...
... doctor is himself tinctured with methodistical tenets ; for no body , now - a - days , befides methodists , & c . confiders the thirty - nine articles of the éstablished church as any teft of doctrine : as for the clergy , it is well ...
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... Doctor Nowel's learned answer to that pro- phane fon of our Alma Mater , called Pietas Oxonienfis , it is evidently much more fafe , and lefs impious , to ridicule the miracles of Mofes , and of Chrift , than to pray in pri- vate houses ...
... Doctor Nowel's learned answer to that pro- phane fon of our Alma Mater , called Pietas Oxonienfis , it is evidently much more fafe , and lefs impious , to ridicule the miracles of Mofes , and of Chrift , than to pray in pri- vate houses ...
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... doctor have the colleges to ftand empty , think you ? But we learn that this motion was over - ruled , the V - C - r ... Doctors of the established church at Babylon are recorded ; concerning which I would make the following notes . I ...
... doctor have the colleges to ftand empty , think you ? But we learn that this motion was over - ruled , the V - C - r ... Doctors of the established church at Babylon are recorded ; concerning which I would make the following notes . I ...
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... doctors of divinity are with us in our universities : fe- condly , there were aftrologers , or men of learned fciences , much the fame with our mafters of arts : thirdly , there were forcerers , who , I fuppofe , were either fellows of ...
... doctors of divinity are with us in our universities : fe- condly , there were aftrologers , or men of learned fciences , much the fame with our mafters of arts : thirdly , there were forcerers , who , I fuppofe , were either fellows of ...
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... doctors the magicians , the maf- ters of the art of aftrology , & c . & c . no fooner embarked in the popular caufe , but they were more than a match for the favourite , who had fallen by means of their reverences , if the Almighty had ...
... doctors the magicians , the maf- ters of the art of aftrology , & c . & c . no fooner embarked in the popular caufe , but they were more than a match for the favourite , who had fallen by means of their reverences , if the Almighty had ...
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Page 28 - Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house ; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
Page 20 - Dr. , [Dixon,] one of the heads of houses present, observed, that as these six gentlemen were expelled for having too much religion, it would be very proper to inquire into the conduct of some who had too little ; and Mr.
Page 35 - And in thofe days, when the number of the difciples was " multiplied, and the word of God increafed, and the " number of the difciples multiplied in Jerufalem greatly, " and a great company of the priefts were obedient to the
Page 20 - ... orator of the university gives a full account of the case of Mr. W — 11 — ng, a friend of his oratorship's, who was charged upon oath with the above said contempt of the scripture, and ridicule of the miracles of Moses and Christ. The proofs were so point blank against the said Rev. Mr.