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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... lives ; but his motion was over - ruled , and sentence pronounced aganft them . Dr. , one of the Heads of Houfes prefent , obferved , that as thefe fix gentlemen were expelled for having too much religion , it would be very proper to ...
... lives ; but his motion was over - ruled , and sentence pronounced aganft them . Dr. , one of the Heads of Houfes prefent , obferved , that as thefe fix gentlemen were expelled for having too much religion , it would be very proper to ...
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... lives are faid to have been very exemplary . I wish , my beloved , it had been no worse . But what was it then ? Was it fwearing , and fighting , and abufing their fellow ftudents ? No , for they fhunned the other students , as a wife ...
... lives are faid to have been very exemplary . I wish , my beloved , it had been no worse . But what was it then ? Was it fwearing , and fighting , and abufing their fellow ftudents ? No , for they fhunned the other students , as a wife ...
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... lives , as the text tells us he did , feeing the fense of the Univerfity was , that their pray- ing , reading , & c . was vicious . I fear me , my beloved , that if the Heads of Houfes do not keep a good look out after this fame doc ...
... lives , as the text tells us he did , feeing the fense of the Univerfity was , that their pray- ing , reading , & c . was vicious . I fear me , my beloved , that if the Heads of Houfes do not keep a good look out after this fame doc ...
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... lives . But he was not quite fo fiery , but gave them another trial , and ftrove to bring them over to the church by gentleness , intermixed with feverity . The gentleness was his , and the feverity belonged to their reverences . But ...
... lives . But he was not quite fo fiery , but gave them another trial , and ftrove to bring them over to the church by gentleness , intermixed with feverity . The gentleness was his , and the feverity belonged to their reverences . But ...
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... lives were faid to be pious and exemplary . II . They thought they might entrap him in fome matters concerning the law of his God . So likewife thefe young men , though they were no whoremafters , no gamblers , no drunkards , no ...
... lives were faid to be pious and exemplary . II . They thought they might entrap him in fome matters concerning the law of his God . So likewife thefe young men , though they were no whoremafters , no gamblers , no drunkards , no ...
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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.