The Independent Whig: Or, A Defence of Primitive Christianity, and of Our Ecclesiastical Establishment, Against the Exorbitant Claims and Enchroachments of Fanatical and Disaffected Clergymen ..., Volumen4John Trenchard, Thomas Gordon J. Peele, 1752 Vol. 2 contains also "The Craftsman: a sermon, or paraphrase ... composed in the style of the late Daniel Burgess," and other additional papers. |
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Página 43 - Landowners in England to Nakedness, and want of Bread. Their misery which seemed complete, had yet a heavy Aggravation ; Their Estates were granted to the Favourites and Champions of the Usurper, desperate Adventurers, and the needy Hunters of Fortune. These Upstarts and Spoilers were incredibly exalted. Some of them rioted in the Revenues of whole Counties ; many of them counted their Manors by Hundreds. Others were made Lords of Cities, others Proprietors of great Towns ; the rest Commanded strong...
Página 58 - I should be glad if you could find some way to furnish the Earl of Antrim with arms, though he be a Roman Catholic ; for he may be of much use to me at 1 Earl of Strafford's Letters, vol.
Página 136 - Amen. 5. Cursed is he that believes priests can forgive sins whether the sinner repent or not : or that there is any power in earth or heaven that can forgive sins, without a hearty repentance and serious purpose of amendment. R. Amen.
Página 146 - Pope can give to any, upon any account whatsoever, dispensation to lie or swear falsely ; or that it is lawful for any, at the last hour, to protest himself innocent in case he be guilty.
Página 3 - ... ladies on the steps of the altar, and was famous for all diabolical excesses. This infernal father of Christendom was deposed by a council, summoned and supported by the Emperor Otho, A deposition, which the same keen churchman Baronius is not ashamed to censure as an act of presumption, as passing judgment upon one whom no man on earth had a right to judge. So that he was accounted a regular and genuine pope ; and if he was, why may not the worst and most accursed being be one ? Boniface the...
Página 6 - St. Anthony preaching to the fishes, St. Francis to the beasts, and neither congregation willing to depart, 'till the saints had blessed them : the wet habits of friars hung upon the sun-beams : the monks entertained in heaven under the blessed virgin's robes : a nun sweetening a vessel of sour wine, and her image upon an empty tub filling it with oil, and continuing it full for some months, for the use of the convent : St. Dominic forcing the devil, in the shape of a monkey, to hold his candle,...
Página 7 - ... the great proofs that the Roman church is the true church. But these fooleries and frauds, however subversive of religion, and the genuine marks of imposture, are pardonable, in comparison of her bloody and persecuting spirit, the consequence of her cruel want of charity, the most signal Christian virtue. She damns all who are not of her horrid communion, and murders, or would murder, all that she damns; witness her universal practice, and constant massacres, at Paris, in Ireland, her crusades...
Página 39 - I will give the following extract. " William the Norman, improperly called ConquerOr, invaded England at the Head of Forces mixed and collected from many countries, most of them needy Adventurers, Allured by Promises of Plunder and Settlements in this Kingdom, which when subdued, was to be turned into Spoil, and parted amongst the Spoilers, with proper Preference and Allotment to the principal Spoiler. He seized a great Number of Estates with as little Ceremony...
Página 43 - ... made Lords of Cities, others Proprietors of great Towns ; the rest Commanded strong Forts and Castles, now purposely built to insure the everlasting Bondage of the wretched English. All these lofty Upstarts had it now in their Option, to starve, or to feed, the genuine Lords and Owners ; I mean such of them as the cruel mercy of the Invader had left to live bereft of Dignity and Bread. When William had, as it were, extinguished the English Nobility and Landholders, he extended his Savage Scheme...
Página 45 - ... were, extinguished the English Nobility and Landholders, he extended his Savage Scheme to the English Clergy, despising their Privileges, trampling upon their Charters, and subjecting them to what burdens he pleased, and put Normans in their room. Some he banished, others he imprisoned, and supplied all the vacancies with strangers, Creatures of his Own, or of the Pope. Such was the return to the English Clergy for their early submission to him, and their Treachery to their Country.