Miscellaneous Tracts ...

Voorkant
J. Churchill, 1714 - 562 pagina's
 

Overige edities - Alles bekijken

Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen

Populaire passages

Pagina 449 - Let the dogs' beards be made ! let the dogs' beards be made !" which is done by thrusting flaming furzes, fastened to a long pole, against their faces. And this inhumanity is commonly continued until their faces are burnt to a coal, and is always accompanied with such loud acclamations of joy, as are not to be heard upon any other occasion.
Pagina 190 - Temple ; and, as to those that sold pigeons, He commanded them to be gone with them, and, going up to the tables of the money-changers, He threw them down upon the ground, scattering about the money that was upon them. Now let us consider this fact, and we shall see that besides its being the greatest miracle that ever Christ wrought, for so St.
Pagina 108 - drawn up by the Archbishop of Valencia in 1602, when he was recommending the expulsion of Saracens from Spain. Referring to this he says, " that they [the Moriscos] commended nothing so much as that liberty of conscience in all matters of religion, which the Turks, and all other Mohammedans, suffer their subjects to enjoy...
Pagina 189 - Whip of them, he went about fhaking it at thofe Cattle, and Men, driving them all out of the Temple ; and as to thofe that fold Pigeons, he commanded them, to be gone with them ; and going up to the Tables of the Money-Changers, he threw them down upon the Ground, fcattering about the Money that was upon 'em.
Pagina 100 - ... This great prelate, who was brother to the Duke of Lerma, by whom the king for some years before and for some years after the expulsion was absolutely governed, was so zealous to have the whole race of the Moriscoes extinguished, that he opposed the detaining of their children who were under seven years of age ; affirming that of the two he judged it more advisable to cut the throats of all the Moriscoes, men, women, and children, than to have any of their children left in Spain, to defile the...
Pagina 190 - ... a manner, none of them offering to lay hold of Him, or denying to obey Him, notwithstanding they were at that time contriving His death ; being a thing that nothing but the Almighty God could have done...
Pagina 43 - This oath was taken by Charles V. ; and Pope Clement VII., in these words, absolved him from the solemn engagement : ' And we do further release your Majesty from the obligation of the oath, which, we are informed, was taken by you in the general estates of the said kingdom and principalities, never to expel the said infidels ; absolving you from all censures and penalties of the guilt of perjury, which you might incur thereby; and dispensing •with you, as to that promise, so far as it is necessary....
Pagina 446 - And we do leave thee to the secular arm, and to the power of the secular court ; but at the same time do most earnestly beseech that court so to moderate its sentence as not to touch thy blood, nor to put thy life in any sort of danger.
Pagina 7 - ... many generations, because they would not turn Christians, did intend to have left Portugal for the same reason ; and did accordingly repair with their families to the ports appointed for their embarkation ; where, instead of ships to carry them off, they met with a proclamation, prohibiting them, upon pain of death, to embark any where but at Lisbon : to which city, when they were all come with their families, the king commanded all their children, that were under fourteen years of age, to be...
Pagina 449 - ... seldom reaches higher than the seat they sit on, and if there happens to be a wind, to which that place is much exposed, it seldom reaches so high as their knees. So that though, if there be a calm, the professed are commonly dead in about half an hour after the furze is set on fire, yet if the weather prove windy, they are not after that, dead in an hour and a half or two hours, and so are really roasted, and not burnt to death. But though, out of hell, there cannot possibly be a more lamentable...

Bibliografische gegevens