Any creed were better--I abjure it, and if I be saved, will abjure it still for ever.
In the eleventh page of the Letters I published after the quelling of Bonaparte are these words: 'I was the first to abjure the party of the Whigs, and shall be the last to abjure the principles.
Every man who doubted whether he might lawfully abjure the pope, consulted his priest.
If he failed to compound for his crime, he had to appear before the coroner, clothed in sackcloth, confess his crime, and abjure the realm.
If within that time he failed to make peace with his adversaries, he had to abjure the realm.
It was his sheer love of letters that brought upon him the charge of heresy; [1807] but he was forced publicly to abjure ten Lutheran heresies charged upon him.
The Church caused Amaury to abjure his teachings; and after his death, finding his party still growing, dug up and burned his bones.
Write, 'I hereby abjure my allegiance to Prince William.
It is proper conduct for a Vaishnav to abjure the society of the wicked.
He was required to recant, to abjurethe doctrines he had taught; not in private, but publicly before the world.
Will he abjurethe doctrines on which his fame rests?
Opium therefore I resolved wholly to abjure as soon as I should find myself at liberty to bend my undivided attention and energy to this purpose.
The rest were forced to abjure publicly and to accept the penances imposed by the inquisitor, with the warning that if they failed to publish their abjuration wherever they had preached their errors they would be burned as relapsed.
It was not enough for Berenger of Tours to be compelled to abjure his notions concerning transubstantiation, but he was stigmatized as the most expert of necromancers.
Some others involved in the accusation likewise perished at the stake, while some were permitted to abjure and were punished with crosses--probably the only occasion in which this penance was administered in the British Isles.
If Paschal was not forced literally to abjure his heresy he did so constructively, and the principle was established that even a pope could not abandon a claim of which the denial had been pronounced heretical.
Episcopi had defined as a heresy the belief that witches are corporally carried to the Sabbat, inquisitors in administering abjuration to their penitents ought to make them abjure this heresy among others.
His heresy then was so little regarded that he was allowed to abjure by deputy, and was reconciled under the trifling penance of Friday fasting on bread and water.
There is no merit in personal devotion when pushed beyond its proper sphere; and the best service which Sir Robert Peel can render to his sovereign, is utterly to abjure all pretension of ever returning to power.
The caste eat flesh and drink liquor but abjure fowls, pork and beef.
These are known as Kabirhas andabjure the consumption of flesh and alcoholic liquor; while the others who indulge in these articles are known as Sakatha or Sakta, that is, a worshipper of Devi or Durga.
Israel is to abjure senseless sacrifice and come to Jehovah with rational and contrite confession.
He had thought himself bound to acknowledge that he had been the Foolish Young Fellow, wishing, possibly, to abjure the fact by an set of penance.
It would have led them through Bavarian territory, and thereby perhaps afforded Duke William, the ruler of the country, occasion to abjure his neutrality and turn openly against the Smalcalds.
He did not pretend that she was to abjure her Protestant faith.
To let his creatures die would be to change, to abjure his Godhood, to cease to be that which he had made himself.
And after that, ifhe can find sufficient sureties, he shall be delivered, and, if not, he shall abjure the realm of England.
Opium, therefore, I resolved wholly to abjure as soon as I should find myself at liberty to bend my undivided attention and energy to this purpose.
All the pastors who refused to abjure their faith were compelled to leave the country within fifteen days.
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