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LONDON CHURCHES BEFORE THE GRT Wilberforce Jenkinson,Society for Promoting Christian Knowledg No preview available - 2016 |
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1636 the income Abbey Abbot afterwards Allhallows alluded ancient annexed Archbishop Archbishop Laud Archbishop of Canterbury arches bell Ben Jonson Bishop of London building built buried called Canterbury Cathedral chantry Charles choir Chronicle church dedicated church was burnt church was rebuilt churchyard cloisters Dean Diary died Dugdale Earl early Eastcheap Edward VI epitaph erected Fire founded Friars Fuller Gothic hath Hennessy Henry VIII Inigo Jones James King known Lane later Margaret mentioned monument nave Newcourt Norman north side Novum Repertorium old church parish church parishioners parson patronage Paul's Paules Peter Pope Nicholas Pope Nicholas IV preached priest priory Queen Elizabeth Queen Mary record rector reign of Edward Richard Royal Saint sermon shews Sir John Sir Richard Baker south side spire steeple stone stood Stow says Stow writes Street Taxatio Temple thirteenth century Thomas Thomas Fuller tower vicar Westminster William
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Page 250 - While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands ; He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed.
Page 36 - The daring flames peeped in and saw from far The awful beauties of the sacred quire,; But, since it was profaned by civil war, Heaven thought it fit to have it purged by fire.
Page 47 - Westminster, when all the faith and religion that shall be there canonized, is not sufficient without plain convincement, and the charity of patient instruction, to supple the least bruise of conscience, to edify the meanest Christian, who desires to walk in the spirit, and not in the letter of human trust, for all the num.ber of voices that can be there made ; no, though Harry the Seventh himself there, with all his liege tombs about him, should lend them voices from the dead, to swell their number.
Page 244 - When Time, swift both of foot and feather, May bear them the Sexton knows not whither ? — What care I then, tho' my last sleep Be in the desart, or in the deep ; No lamp, nor taper, day and night, To give my charnel chargeable light ? I have there, like quantity of ground ; And at the last day I shall be found*.
Page 93 - Glory be to the Father, &c." after he had read the two psalms : but the people had been so little used to it, that they could not tell what to answer. This...
Page 35 - Now shalt thou stand though sword, or time, or fire, Or zeal more fierce than they, thy fall conspire, Secure, whilst thee the best of poets sings, Preserved from ruin by the best of kings.
Page 46 - Neither is God appointed and confined, where and out of what place these his chosen shall be first heard to speak ; for he sees not as man sees, chooses not as man chooses, lest we should devote ourselves again to set places, and assemblies, and outward callings of men, planting our faith one while in the old Convocation house, and another while in the chapel at Westminster...
Page 55 - Here's an acre sown indeed With the richest, royallest seed That the earth did e'er suck in Since the first man died for sin: Here the bones of birth have cried 'Though gods they were, as men they died!
Page 16 - The next day after his burial, some unknown friend, some one of the many lovers and admirers of his virtue and learning, writ this epitaph with a coal* on the wall over his grave : — Reader! I am to let thee know, Donne's body only lies below ; For, could the grave his soul comprise, Earth would be richer than the skies...
Page 93 - Put on my new scallop, which is very fine. To church, and there saw the first time Mr. Mills in a surplice; but it seemed absurd for him to pull it over his ears in the reading-pew, after he had done, before all the church, to go up to the pulpit to preach without it.