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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... find that out . Well I paid and I read to no purpose for a long while ; till at last I chanced to Spy An Extract of a Letter from Oxford , and I wot it pleafed me mightily . A 2 It It told us how that , Six young men were THE ...
... find that out . Well I paid and I read to no purpose for a long while ; till at last I chanced to Spy An Extract of a Letter from Oxford , and I wot it pleafed me mightily . A 2 It It told us how that , Six young men were THE ...
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... , at the Printing- Office , White - Friars , Fleet - Street . Wherein , if you will pull your news- papers out of your pockets , you may read with me the following paragraph . EXTRACT EXTRACT of a LETTER from OXFORD . On Friday last A ...
... , at the Printing- Office , White - Friars , Fleet - Street . Wherein , if you will pull your news- papers out of your pockets , you may read with me the following paragraph . EXTRACT EXTRACT of a LETTER from OXFORD . On Friday last A ...
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John Macgowan. EXTRACT of a LETTER from OXFORD . On Friday last fix ftudents belonging to Edmund- Hall were expelled the University , after an bearing of feveral hours before Mr. Vice Chan- cellor , and fome of the Heads of Houses , for ...
John Macgowan. EXTRACT of a LETTER from OXFORD . On Friday last fix ftudents belonging to Edmund- Hall were expelled the University , after an bearing of feveral hours before Mr. Vice Chan- cellor , and fome of the Heads of Houses , for ...
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... Last Friday , the act and deed of Pro- teftant Divines . 1 III . Six Students ! -What a miracle was it , my beloved , that , out of fo many hundreds of students as are at Oxford , only Six should be found guilty of praying , reading ...
... Last Friday , the act and deed of Pro- teftant Divines . 1 III . Six Students ! -What a miracle was it , my beloved , that , out of fo many hundreds of students as are at Oxford , only Six should be found guilty of praying , reading ...
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... intermixed with feverity . The gentleness was his , and the feverity belonged to their reverences . But the methodists continued obftinate , and at last overcame the parfons , N parfons . If you'll read the chapter through , you'll [ 24 ]
... intermixed with feverity . The gentleness was his , and the feverity belonged to their reverences . But the methodists continued obftinate , and at last overcame the parfons , N parfons . If you'll read the chapter through , you'll [ 24 ]
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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.