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Example sentences for "churchmen"

Lexicographically close words:
churching; churchism; churchly; churchman; churchmanship; churchwarden; churchwardens; churchyard; churchyards; churinga
  1. At the Restoration all churchmen set about repairing their cathedrals, and the citizens of Rochester lagged not behind.

  2. He is represented in his episcopal robes, and the details of his dress are important, as they show what the vestments of a bishop really were in the time of Elizabeth, a point often disputed by English Churchmen of to-day.

  3. But contact with the Christianity of the Italian mission, or with that of travelled individual churchmen such as Benedict and Wilfrid, revealed the existence of great differences between the insular and the continental type.

  4. As pointed out in the sketch of him as enlarged for the volume containing a second series of Catholic Churchmen in Science (The Dolphin Press, Phila.

  5. The movement that led up to it had arisen amongst the guildsmen as well as the churchmen and the nobles of the preceding century.

  6. It is incorporated in Catholic Churchmen in Science, Second Series (The Dolphin Press, Phila.

  7. Footnote 506: “The opinions of some of our own Churchmen on this subject are collected by Clarke in his book on the Trinity.

  8. On this ground the high Churchmen consistently deny to all other Ministers the power to teach or to preach, and with one fell stroke, cut off the whole of the Dissenters from the spiritual body of Christ.

  9. In the early age of Christianity, we have abundant evidence, both from Evangelical and Ecclesiastical history, that many preached the gospel who had no such authority as Churchmen call Ordination or Holy orders.

  10. As a Churchman," said Inglesant, "if I lend myself to this plan I shall be considered by all Churchmen to have betrayed my religion, and to have done my best to ruin my country as a Protestant country.

  11. The violent excitement of the popular party against the High Churchmen and against ceremonies was also a subject of conversation.

  12. Inglesant recognized many Churchmen and friends of the Archbishop among the crowd, and saw that they recognized him, and that his name was passed about among both friends and enemies.

  13. In the vast body of imperial edicts inflicting upon heretics every variety of disability and punishment, the most ardent churchmen might find conviction that the State recognized the preservation of the purity of the faith as its first duty.

  14. More enlightened churchmen viewed its results with well-grounded disbelief, and Peter Cantor mentions several cases to prove its injustice.

  15. When Romanists shall praise Low Churchmen and Dissenters, we may be assured that serious errors are creeping in amongst them.

  16. If such a list would have given so formidable an array of Evangelical Churchmen and Dissenters, I can hardly suppose but Dr.

  17. These records were afterwards found to differ essentially from those kept in monasteries where Scottish churchmen had the superiority.

  18. In this way, then, the discussions of my book on the part of Churchmen and freethinking critics alike showed me that the majority of men simply do not understand either Christ's teaching or the questions which Christ's teaching solves.

  19. Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what Churchmen understand by the Church.

  20. Churchmen substitute for Christianity the version they have framed of it for themselves, and this view of Christianity they regard as the one infallibly true one.

  21. Church and of heresy), that there was not a single sincere and conscientious man of any importance whom the Churchmen would not from envy or other causes have ruined.

  22. Churchmen may talk of something else, but this is what they teach by every means in their power.

  23. But nowhere is anything said of the foundation of what Churchmen call the Church.

  24. Then we had heard it said by the German Churchmen that in taking the side of Russia we, British and French people, leaders among the enlightened races, were helping Muscovite barbarians to oppose the cause of civilization.

  25. Passages there are, which the timidity of Anglican churchmen would regard as dealing too freely with the symbolism of the Catacombs.

  26. They questioned their right to call themselves churchmen at all; and, in short, looked upon them as no better than heretics, and not very consistent heretics either.

  27. It is not the Church but churchmen who condemned him and not for religious but political reasons.

  28. After these two great Churchmen and patrons of learning and education, there are a series of scholars whose names deserve to be mentioned for the influence which they exerted on the learning of Europe at this time.

  29. The most zealous churchmen loudly censured the policy of the queen; and a great historian has observed that when, during the reign of Louis XIII.

  30. This has often been noticed by impartial observers, and we are now possessed of statistical proof that 'the great body of Protestant dissenters are more assiduous' in attending religious worship than churchmen are.

  31. Churchmen look upon them as religious and ethical.

  32. The whole character of Ivan was tinged with the duplicity of the churchmen who held a high place in his councils.

  33. An imposing group of churchmen stood ready to receive the ointment, including three prelates, an archbishop, and two bishops.

  34. On the platform we occupy do we allow none but English Churchmen to stand?

  35. During Penn's lifetime the Churchmen were naturally opposed to the whole government, both executive and legislative.

  36. The Churchmen kept up their complaints for along time, but without effect in England.

  37. In spite of this opposition, however, the Quakers continued their control of the colony, serenely tolerating the anathemas of the learned Churchmen and the fierce curses and brandished weapons of the Presbyterians and Scotch-Irish.

  38. Although some of the Churchmen joined the Quaker side, most of them and the most influential of them were opposed to the change and did good work in opposing it.

  39. As it was, however, the Churchmen established themselves with not a little glamour and romance round two institutions, Christ Church for the first fifty years, and after that round the old College of Philadelphia.

  40. After Penn's death, his sons joined the Church of England, and the Churchmen in the province became still stronger.

  41. It is plain, by the proceedings of the Churchmen before and at the Revolution, that this doctrine was never designed to introduce arbitrary power.

  42. Most pleasant-minded Churchmen feel, I think, on this subject pretty much in the same way.

  43. Much counsel was necessary among High-Churchmen of great repute before any fixed resolution could wisely be made in such a matter as this; and few Churchmen stood in higher repute than the Archdeacon of Barchester.

  44. Good active bishops were very desirable, and there was a strong feeling among certain excellent Churchmen that there could hardly be too many of them.

  45. The most important single factor in this connection was the development of a class of businessmen in a society dominated by landlords, churchmen and soldiers.

  46. Landlords, churchmen and soldiers lived during periods of animal husbandry and primitive agriculture on the very narrow margins produced during bountiful harvests.

  47. I had no low churchmen among my near friends, except Walter Farquhar.

  48. The particular quarrel was of secondary importance, but it brought home to the high churchmen what might be expected in weightier matters than the affair of Dr.

  49. Most ordinary churchmen remained where they were.

  50. What better right, it was asked, had low churchmen to shut their eyes to the language of rubrics, creeds, and offices, than the high churchmen had to twist the language of the articles?

  51. The publication of Froude's Remains was the first flagrant beacon lighting the path of divergence from the lines of historical high churchmen in an essentially anti-protestant direction.

  52. They accompanied this with assurances that though 'the Magistrates in this country' were in the same state as before, the Churchmen there were daily in less estimation.

  53. And this was done without change or qualification, though the preface prefixed to it by the Churchmen admits its fallibility and invites amendment--a view in which Knox had long since been encouraged by his earliest teacher.

  54. But corruption of churchmen is always a symptom of deeper things.

  55. With either of the two preceding sovereigns such churchmen as Boniface and Winchelsey might have prevailed, and thus a foreign sovereignty of the most disastrous kind might have been established in the realm.

  56. These attempts, fostered by such churchmen as Dunstan and A’Becket, had long been perplexing all the governments of Christendom.


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