A Plea for the Abolition of Tests in the University of Oxford

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Wheeler and Day, 1864 - 103

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Strona 34 - WILL you be diligent in prayers, and in reading of the Holy Scriptures, and in such studies as help to the knowledge of the same, laying aside the study of the world and the flesh?
Strona 15 - That for the present, though some differences have been ill raised, yet we take comfort in this, that all clergymen within our realm, have always most willingly subscribed to the articles established ; which is an argument to us, that they all agree in the true, usual, literal meaning of the said articles...
Strona 10 - Sir, said I, because we were so occupied in other matters, that we had no time to examine them how they agreed with the word of God: What, said he, surely you mistook the matter, you will refer yourselves wholly to us therein?
Strona 36 - Rochelle , as was rumoured to be designed, had sanctioned his position ) , but pronounced a solemn decree, that it is in no case lawful for subjects to make use of force against their princes , or to appear offensively or defensively in the
Strona 10 - I, because we were so occupied in other matters, that we had no time to examine them how they agreed with the word of God: What, said he, surely you mistook the matter, you will refer yourselves wholly to us therein? No, by the faith I bear to God...
Strona 10 - God, said I, we will pass nothing before we understand what it is; for that were but to make you popes; make you popes who list, said I, for we will make you none.
Strona 10 - Assent and subscribe to all the ARTICLES OF RELIGION which only concern the confession of the true Christian faith and the doctrine of the Sacraments...
Strona 15 - ... subscribed to the Articles established; which is an argument to us that they all agree in the true, usual, literal meaning of the said Articles; and that even in those curious points in which the present differences lie, men of all sorts take the Articles of the Church of England to be for them; which is an argument again, that none of them intend any desertion of the Articles established.
Strona 83 - ... belongs to the Church of the past; the Church of the future will practically dispense with it. The Creeds, those monuments of its ancient sway, may still be retained, upon archaeological principles, or as a point of ecclesiastical honour. But in the real life and heart of the Church, dogma will be by degrees " thrown into the background, and may in the end pass practically out of view h.
Strona 19 - God in the way he thought the best, was shot down by a godless soldiery hounded on by bishops styling themselves the successors of the Apostles ; when Ireland was oppressed by a penal code which bribed the child to apostasy by enabling him, as a reward, to strip his father of his property, and not only of his inherited property, but of that which he might himself acquire ; when immorality and infidelity went hand in hand with spiritual slavery ; and, while Baxter and Calamy lay in prison for their...

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