The Life and Letters of Robert Leighton: Restoration Bishop of Dunblane and Archbishop of GlasgowHodder and Stoughton, 1903 - 607 páginas |
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Alexander Leighton appointed Archbishop Archbishop of Glasgow Assembly authority Baillie Bishop Bishop of Dunblane blessed brethren Burnet Calvinism Catholic Charles Christ Christian Church of Scotland clergy Colledge Commission Commissioners conscience Council Covenanters declared desire desyre diocese Divine doctrine Douay Dunblane Earl of Lothian ecclesiastical Edinburgh endeavour England English Episcopacy Episcopal faith father Glasgow grace hath heart History holy Ibid James Jansenism Jansenists Jesuits John King King's Kirk Laud Lauderdale League and Covenant letter liberty Lichton Lightoun live London Lord meet mind ministers ministry moderate Montrose Newbattle Newbotle ordained parish Parliament party peace persons piety Port-Royal prayer preach Prelacy presbyters Presbytery present Protestant Protestantism Puritan Reformation regarded religion religious Restoration Robert Leighton Scots Scottish Scripture sermons soul spirit Synod theology ther things Thomas à Kempis thought tion tyme words worship
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Página 184 - GOD, endeavour, in our several places and callings, the preservation of the reformed religion in the Church of Scotland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, against our common enemies ; the reformation of religion in the kingdoms of England and Ireland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, according to the word of GOD, and the example of the best reformed Churches...
Página 194 - But we do hope to find out all your tricks, Your plots and packing, worse than those of Trent, That so the Parliament May, with their wholesome and preventive shears, Clip your phylacteries, though baulk your ears, And succour our just fears, When they shall read this clearly in your charge — New PRESBYTER is but old PRIEST writ large.
Página 67 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Página 373 - Finally brethren, farewell : be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace ; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
Página 185 - God, the good of the kingdoms, and the honour of the king; but shall all the days of our lives zealously and constantly continue therein against all opposition, and promote the same according to our power, against all lets and impediments whatsoever; and what we are not able ourselves to suppress or overcome, we shall reveal and make known, that it may be timely prevented or removed: all which we shall do as in the sight of God.
Página 67 - O' the world are that ? What use of swells and falls From Levites' choir, Priests' cries, and trumpet-calls ? XII.
Página 42 - ... the church; to whose service, by the intentions of my parents and friends, I was destined of a child, and in mine own resolutions, till coming to some maturity of years, and perceiving what tyranny had invaded the church, that he who would take orders must subscribe slave, and take an oath withal ; which unless he took with a conscience that would retch, he must either strait perjure, or split his faith; I thought it better to prefer a blameless silence, before the sacred office of speaking,...
Página 184 - God, and the example of the best reformed churches ; and we shall endeavour to bring the churches of God in the three kingdoms to the nearest conjunction and uniformity in religion, confession of faith, form of church government, directory for worship, and catechising; that we, and our posterity after us, may, as brethren, live in faith and love, and the Lord may delight to dwell in the midst of us.
Página 58 - Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...