 I frequently staid at home to catechise and instruct my family, those exercises universally ceasing in the parish churches, so as people had no principles, and grew very ignorant of even the common points of Christianity ; all devotion being now placed...  The Church Quarterly Review - Page 3021908Full view - About this book
 | 1818 - 606 pages
...churches, so as people had no principles, and grew very ignorant of even the common points of Christianity, all devotion being now placed in hearing sermons and...discourses of speculative and notional things.' The following extracts show strikingly the spirit of those unhappy times. ' 4 Dec. Going this day to our... | |
 | 1818 - 574 pages
...churches, so as people had no principles, and grew very ignorant of even the common points of Christianity, all devotion being now placed in hearing sermons and discourses of speculative and notional things." But Mr. Evelyn, attached as he was to the Church of his nation, to the spiritual sublimity of its doctrinas,... | |
 | 1819 - 780 pages
...Churches, so as people had no principles, and grew very ignorant of even Ihe common points of Christianity, all devotion being now placed in hearing sermons and discourses of speculative and notional things.'* p. 287. (To lie concluded in our next.) 54". Address f font the Committee of the Society for superseding... | |
 | 1819 - 708 pages
...had no principles, and grew very ignorant of even the common points of Chr isiianity, all de. voiiun being now placed in hearing sermons and discourses of speculative and notional things." p. 387. ( To be concluded in our next.) 5\. Address from the Committee of the Socif/y for superseding... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1823 - 636 pages
...churches, so as people had no principles, and grew very ignorant of even the common points of Christiamty, all devotion being now placed in hearing sermons and discourses of speculative and notional things.' It was one of the fantastic opinions of former times that poison never insinuates itself so quickly,... | |
 | Richard Brindley Hone - 1833 - 414 pages
...[rudiments of Christian knowledge], and grew very ignorant of even the common points of christianity, all devotion being now placed in hearing sermons,...and discourses of speculative and notional things." " There being no such thing as church anniversaries in the parochial assemblies," he kept Christmas-day,... | |
 | 1838 - 950 pages
...first elements of divine knowledge], and grew very ignorant of even the common points of Christianity, all devotion being now placed in hearing sermons and discourses of speculative and notional things." It is bad for the interests of a Church when any one of its ordinances is entirely disused. Catechiting... | |
 | 1839 - 736 pages
...churches, so as people had no principles, and grew very ignorant of even the common points of Christianity, all devotion being now placed in hearing sermons and discourses of speculative and notional things." Evelyn's Memoirs, vol. ip 287. 1818. truths he would inforce so far prevailed over his otherwise insuperable... | |
 | Edward Berens - 1841 - 286 pages
...so as people had no principles, and grew very ignorant of even the common points of Christianity ; all devotion being now placed in hearing sermons and discourses of speculative and notional things." November 27. " This day came forth the Protector's edict or proclamation, prohibiting all Ministers... | |
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