The Independent Whig: Or, A Defence of Primitive Christianity, and of Our Ecclesiastical Establishment, Against the Exorbitant Claims and Encroachments of Fanatical and Disaffected Clergymen, Volumen3

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J. Peele, 1741
 

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Página 287 - Nay, common Fame is more than ordinarily false, if none of them have found a way to reconcile the Opinions of Rome to the Preferments of England ; and to be so absolutely, directly and cordially Papists, that it is all that Fifteen hundred pounds a year can do to keep them from confessing it.
Página 287 - Speaker, to go yet further, some of them have " so industriously laboured to deduce themselves from " Rome, that they have given great suspicion that in " gratitude they desire to return thither, or at least to " meet it half-way. Some have evidently laboured to " bring in an English, though not a Roman, Popery;
Página 199 - Archbishop of Canterbury, proving that his grace cannot be the author of the Letter to an eminent Presbyterian clergyman in Swisserland, in which the present state of Religion in England is blackened and exposed, and the present ministry are misrepresented and traduced,
Página 400 - Cbefter ; by his entering into a Treaty with the Rebels, after he had engaged his Faith to the Parliament to the contrary ; and bringing over many Thoufands of them to fight againft his People.
Página 362 - Between law and violence, between right and tyranny, there is no medium, no more than between juftice and oppreffion. If king Charles had no right to act thus, then his acting thus was tyranny. If he had a right, of what force are laws and oaths ; and where is our conftitution, the boafted rights of Englijhmen and our ancient Magna Charta? Why was his foa king James turned out ? why declared to have forfeited ? And I would afk the admirers and defenders of king Charles I.
Página 242 - ... lay than in the duties of the text, ' To fear the Lord, and the king, and not to meddle with them that are given to change.
Página 286 - ... opprobrious epithets ; and, quitting his place, laid violent hands on them in the face of the congregation, and rent their clothes. One Candlemas day, he had lighted up 300 wax candles in honour of Our Lady, three score of which he had placed on and about the altar. He denied the royal supremacy, insisting that the King had no more power over the church than the boy who rubbed his horse's heels...
Página 401 - German horfe, to force his arbitrary taxes; but this matter taking wind, and, being examined by the parliament, orders were fent to countermand them. In the...
Página 398 - ... the fame time into a war with France and Spain, upon the private piques of Buckingham, who managed them to the eternal difhonour and reproach of the Englifh nation.
Página 287 - It feemed, fays he, their work (the bimops) to try how much of a 'papift might be brought in without popery, and to deftroy as much as they could of the gofpel, without bringing themfelves into danger of being deftroyed by the law.

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