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abbots abjured afterwards Anne Boleyn answered appear appointed Archbishop Archbishop of Canterbury attainted authority Bishop of London bishops Bonner brought bull burnt called Campeggio canons Canterbury cardinal censures Christ Church clergy Commons complained concerning condemned confessed confirmed convocation council court Cranmer Cromwell crown death declared denied desired dispensation divines divorce Duke of Norfolk Earl ecclesiastical emperor England English esteemed executed faith favour former France friars gave give given granted hands Henry VIII heresy heretics holy House House of Lords images judged King Henry king's supremacy legates letter Lords marriage married matter misprision of treason monasteries monks oath Oath of Succession opinion pardon Parliament person pope pope's power prayed preached pretended priests princes proceedings promised protector queen raised reason received Reformation reign religion resolved Rome sacrament Scotland Scriptures seemed sent sentence suppress supreme head temper things thought tion took transubstantiation Wolsey wrote
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Page 252 - No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Page 74 - Which was to the slander of the issue begotten between the king and her. By this strained interpretation her guilt was brought under the statute of the...
Page 17 - Courts of Princes, and aspired to the greatest offices. The " Abbots and Monks were wholly given...
Page 276 - He knew the harbours in all his dominions, with the depth of the water, and way of coming into them. He understood foreign affairs so well, that the ambassadors who were sent into England, published very extraordinary things of him in all the courts of Europe. He had great quickness of apprehension, but being distrustful of his memory, he took notes of everything he heard that was considerable, in Greek characters, that those about him might not understand what he writ, which he afterwards copied...
Page 42 - Render to Csesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.
Page 266 - How truly was it said of such extraordinary persons, that their lives are short, and seldom do they come to be old ! He gave us an essay of virtue, though he did not live to give a pattern of it. When the gravity of a King was needful, he carried himself like an old man ; and yet he was always affable and gentle, as became his age. He played on the lute ; he meddled in affairs of state ; and for bounty, he did in that emulate his father ; though he even, when he endeavoured to be too good, might...
Page 369 - Church in ecclesiastical hands, and the taking it out of lay hands, who have so long profaned it; and have exposed the authority of the Church, and the censures of it, chiefly excommunication, to the contempt of the nation; by which the reverence due to holy things is in so great a measure lost, and the dreadfulest of all censures is now become the most scorned and despised.
Page 204 - Christ had told his disciples, that when he was " taken from them, they should fast : so in the primitive church they ''fasted before Easter ; but the same number of days was not observed ' in all places ; afterwards, other rules and days were established ; but ' St. Austin complained, that many in his time placed all their religion ' in observing them. Fast-days are turned to a mockery in the church, of ' Rome, in which they dine on fish exquisitely drest, and drink wine.
Page v - ... hoodwink the world, and to deliver it up into the hands of the ambitious clergy ? What can we think of superstition and idolatry of Images, and all the other pomp of the Roman worship, but that by these things the people were to be kept up in a gross notion of religion as a splendid business, and that the priests have a trick of saving them, if they will but take care to humour them and leave that matter wholly in their hands ? And, to sum up all, what can we think of that constellation of prodigies...
Page 165 - The chancellor, who thought the precedence fell to him, by his office, since the archbishop did not meddle much in secular affairs, opposed this much, and said it was a change of the king's will, who had made them all equal in power and dignity ; and if any were raised above the rest in title it would not be possible to keep him within due bounds, since great titles make way for high power.