The Cambridge Modern History, Volume 5John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Sir Stanley Mordaunt Leathes Cambridge University Press, 1908 - Enlightenment "The Cambridge Modern History" is a comprehensive modern history of the world, beginning with the 15th century age of Discovery, published by the Cambridge University Press in the United Kingdom and also in the United States. |
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Page 743 - would often say that he would renounce the religion of the Church of England tomorrow, if it obliged him to believe that any other Christian should be damned, and that nobody would conclude another man to be damned who did not wish him so.
Page 94 - promised that no man should be "disquieted or called in question" for differences of opinion in matters of religion, which did not disturb the peace of the kingdom.
Page 325 - that it is not lawful on any pretence whatever to take arms against the King, and that I do abhor that traitorous position of taking arms by his authority against his person,
Page 218 - a joint resolution was voted that " there hath been and still is a damnable and hellish plot, contrived and carried on by popish recusants, for the assassinating and murdering the King and rooting out and destroying the Protestant religion.
Page 835 - A discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying, with its just limits and temper, shewing the unreasonableness of prescribing to other men's faith, and the iniquity of persecuting differing opinions. London.
Page 746 - being disgusted with the dry systematical way of those times, he studied to raise those who conversed with him to a nobler set of thoughts, and to consider religion as a seed of a deiform nature.
Page 745 - I thought it might not misbecome my duty and endeavours to plead for peace and charity and forgiveness and permissions mutual; although I had reason to believe that such is the iniquity of men, and they so indisposed to receive such impresses, that I had as good plough the sands, or till the air.
Page 203 - I shall take it very ill," he said, " to receive contradiction in what I have done. And I will deal plainly with you: I am resolved to stick to my Declaration.
Page 205 - of 168 to 116 in favour of the resolution, " That Penal Statutes in matters ecclesiastical cannot be suspended but by act of Parliament, 1
Page 323 - so as they abuse not this liberty to the civil injury of others, or to the actual disturbance of the public peace.