The Miseries and Great Hardships of the Inferior Clergy in and about London: and a Modest Plea for Their Rights and Better Usage. In a Letter to a Right Reverend Prelate. By the Reverend Mr. Tho. StackhouseJ. Roberts, 1737 - 178 pages |
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... Opinion , as Job xxix . when he puts on Righteousness and Judgment for a Robe and Diadem ; as when he is a Father to the Poor , and the Caufe that he knows not , fearcheth out ; as when he breaks the Jaws of 14 , & c . Epifcopus ...
... Opinion , as Job xxix . when he puts on Righteousness and Judgment for a Robe and Diadem ; as when he is a Father to the Poor , and the Caufe that he knows not , fearcheth out ; as when he breaks the Jaws of 14 , & c . Epifcopus ...
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... Opinion in the Conclufion : " Since all the Returns of Obedience and Sub- " miffion , of Efteem and Support , are declared " in Scripture to be due to the Clergy , on the " Account of their watching over , and feeding " the Flock of God ...
... Opinion in the Conclufion : " Since all the Returns of Obedience and Sub- " miffion , of Efteem and Support , are declared " in Scripture to be due to the Clergy , on the " Account of their watching over , and feeding " the Flock of God ...
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... Opinion , according to their proper Value ; thofe that are before him in the Race of Wealth and Honour , he emulates ; but those that are behind him , he despises * : Ecclef . ix . Never confidering , that the Race is not always to the ...
... Opinion , according to their proper Value ; thofe that are before him in the Race of Wealth and Honour , he emulates ; but those that are behind him , he despises * : Ecclef . ix . Never confidering , that the Race is not always to the ...
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... Opinion of the primitive Church , that ought to bring us a little nearer to your Lordship's Situation , than we seem to be at prefent ; fomething in the Titles of Honour that were given to Presbyters of old , and in the Thrones whereon ...
... Opinion of the primitive Church , that ought to bring us a little nearer to your Lordship's Situation , than we seem to be at prefent ; fomething in the Titles of Honour that were given to Presbyters of old , and in the Thrones whereon ...
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... Opinions of Mankind ; even wife People will follow the Vulgar in efteeming Men accord- ing to their Riches , Dignities and Honours , and fuch other things as are without them , not- withstanding the manifeft Abfurdity of the thing . And ...
... Opinions of Mankind ; even wife People will follow the Vulgar in efteeming Men accord- ing to their Riches , Dignities and Honours , and fuch other things as are without them , not- withstanding the manifeft Abfurdity of the thing . And ...
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Page 139 - And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church : but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
Page 20 - I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Page 108 - The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
Page 27 - Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind ; neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
Page 152 - Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel...
Page 118 - And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty : thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress : of that wherewith the Lord thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
Page 28 - Be to the flock of Christ a shepherd, not a wolf; feed them, devour them not. Hold up the weak, heal the sick, bind up the broken, bring again the outcasts, seek the lost.
Page 159 - Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the Cross of Christ: whose; end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things...
Page 43 - Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.
Page 52 - But as a dog that turns the spit Bestirs himself, and plies his feet To climb the wheel, but all in vain, His own weight brings him down again: And still he's in the self-same place Where at his setting out he was...