 | James Nichols - 1824 - 474 páginas
...so much an excuse for them, as a great matter of caution to others, how they at first emhroil puhlic affairs, and enter on the weighty matters of reforming Church or State, though with a good design enough, hut yet hy methods illegal and untried. It is only God can say to the waves, Hitherto... | |
 | William Fleetwood (bp. of Ely.) - 1854 - 404 páginas
...so much an excuse for them, as a great matter of caution to others, how they at first embroil public affairs, and enter on the weighty matters of reforming church or state, though with a good design enough, but yet by methods illegal and untried. It is only God can say to the waves, Hitherto... | |
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I see no reason to believe that any single man or party whatever could intend, at first, the evils they afterwards effected ; but I do not see that this is so much an excuse for them, as a great matter of caution to others, how they at first... 