When Frederick's Calvinist divines persuaded him to have the altars and paintings removed from St. Vitus's Cathedral, Lutherans, Utraquists and Romanists were equally indignant.
Little is known of the deliberations of this assembly, though the documents in which both the Hussite and the Romanist divines formulated their views have been preserved.
But comparing our own species to superior ones, it is a very mortifying consideration, that we should all be so liable to diseases and infirmities; and divines accordingly employ this topic, in order to depress self-conceit and vanity.
And I trust in God and in Christ sufficiently to believe that He will raise up sound divines and true philosophers in His Church, who will refute it once more.
The Scotch divines were extremely displeased with our eyes.
The frame of mind which the teachings of the clergy encouraged, and which provoked self-murder, is vividly depicted by Samuel Rutherford, the most popular of all the Scotch divines of the seventeenth century.
This fundamental doctrine of the Scotch divines is tersely summed up in Binning's Sermons, vol.
In illustration of this, a volume might be filled with extracts from the writings of the Scotch divines of the seventeenth century.
In his pages Hutchinson read how Puritan divines accompanied the witch-magistrates on their rounds and how a "reading parson" was one of their victims.
Thirdly it is also to the end, that Godly Divines and others might discourse with them, for if any of their society come to them to discourse with them, they will never confesse.
Behaviour with several Divineswho came to converse with 'em whilst under their sentence of Death; and last Dying Speeches and Confession at the place of execution, London, 1716.
It was clear to the divines who strove with the possessed boy that his case was of exactly the same sort as those in the New Testament.
The authors, who no doubt catered to public sentiment, were not as earnest as the divines of their day, but they were almost as superstitious.
He made fun of the several divines engaged in the affair, and accused them of trickery and presumption in their conduct of the case.
Stearne tells us that the keeping the witches separate is "also to the end that Godly Divines might discourse with them.
Others, whose healthy looks would belie the dispensing physician, compound between the Church and their stomachs by adding an ounce of bread to the cup of chocolate which, under the name of Parvedad, our divines admit as a venial infraction.
Divines have declared that moral responsibility begins at the age of seven, and, consequently, children of quick parts are not allowed to go much longer without the advantage of confession.
Like Bossuet, most Catholic divines can see no medium between denying the infallible authority of the Church and rejecting revelation.
Thanks to the league between our church and state, the Catholic divines have nearly succeeded in keeping down knowledge to their own level.
Divines were made the judges of Columbus’s plans of discovery, as well as to allot a species to the Americans.
Hence the encroachments of divines upon every branch of human knowledge, which are still supported by the hand of power in a great part of Europe, but in none so outrageously as in Spain.
The devil, the pope, and the Pretender darkened the sermons, for more than a century, of many sounddivines in the north.
Many divines have considered the death of the two witnesses, as consisting in a moral slaying, equivalent to apostacy.
Some divines have actually attempted, by arithmetical rules, to compute the number!
I presume that most divines and intelligent Christians are long since convinced, by the developments of Providence, that he was mistaken.
Bishop Newton, among those divines distinguished in ecclesiastical history as Millenarians, may be regarded as one of the most learned, judicious and cautious.
At the time when those learned divines wrote, the political agitations in Europe and America, as already noticed, gave a peculiar tincture to their opinions and expositions of the Apocalyptic symbols.
By the most learned and sober divines the first six seals are considered as disclosing the events which transpired from the time of the apostle John till the overthrow of pagan idolatry in the Roman empire and the accession of Constantine.
The most learned and judicious interpreters of this book have been divines of Britain and of the United States.
Elizabeth and her divines were not inclined to let this stand as it was read in the second edition of Edward's time, since the mystical act there appeared almost as a mere commemorative repast.
He had many conversations with thedivines of the country, during which the idea of an union of both Protestant confessions was mooted.
Among the scholastic divines of the middle ages, some held to the liberty of the will, while many allowed only what they called the liberty of spontaneity, i.
English moralists have sometimes taken the same view, and the earlier American divines very generally held it.
Although the Alexandrian divines invoked the aid of reason, it is a matter which reason cannot settle.
The great divines of the seventeenth century made him the subject of their admiring study.
He dealt in old books, the works of the English divines of all parties, both in the Anglican Church and outside it.
Here are two or three of the questions, put, it will be remembered, without notice, to a youth a little over twenty, confronted by a number of solemn divines in white neckerchiefs.
The philosophers and divines looked at each other in silence, like fools who had shot their last bolt.
To the inhabitants of Boston and Philadelphia, one thousand pounds sterling to each city, to be let out by the oldest divines of different churches, on a five per cent.
They have assuredly, in general, no better reason--all our Protestant divines will tell you so.
He refers the tenet of natural liberty and the popular origin of government to the schoolmen, allowing that all papists and the reformed divines have imbibed it, but denying that it is found in the fathers.
But the essential principle of all whom we reckon in this category of divines is the necessity of preventing grace, or, in other words, that it is not in the power of man to do any act, in the first instance, towards his own salvation.
In expository, or, as some call it, exegetical theology, the English divines had already taken a conspicuous station.
English divines to attack the Anti-Trinitarians of each denomination.
This persuasion,” he says in a note, “is no singularity of mine, but the doctrine which I have learned from divines of great learning and judgment.
This work was soon translated into English, and furnished a large part of such knowledge on the subject as our own divines possessed.
The style of preaching in England was less ornamental, and spoke less to the imagination and affections, than these celebrated writers of the Gallican church; but in some of our chief divines it had its own excellencies.
These two great divines resemble each other, on the whole, so much that we might for a short time not discover which we were reading.
When our most learned divines and philosophers are the stringent supporters of the principle, what should make the task difficult?
Indeed, so earnest are many good divines in the promotion of slavery, that it would not be unbecoming to form a connection between the southern church and the southern man shambles.
It is a question whether these sensitive divines were shocked at the affectation and cold indifference manifested by legitimate dealers, or at the vender's very impertinent remarks.
One of the most famous Scotch divines said: "The kirk holds that religious toleration is not far from blasphemy.
It is not easy for divines to reconcile this with God's other precept in the eighth commandment.
Divines hold this passage to be a great instance of sublimity!
Do not otherdivines tell us that it means the kingdom of heaven?
I suspect not, and that all the subtle reasoning ofdivines destroy themselves.
As a proof of the absurdity of the application of prophecies, I shall here quote one, which is apparently clearer than any in the whole Bible, and is adduced by the most famous divines as an unquestionable prediction of Christ.
During this period, the talent that was to be found in the country was enlisted in the religious struggle, which occupied all men's minds, and it produced many divines eminent for eloquence and learning.
In some parishes the curates went on ministering as heretofore, while in others the Presbyterian divines held services in tents, or illegally occupied the pulpits.
It illuminates and unifies knowledge, divines the wide relations of thought, and discerns its place in organic connection with the world which gave it birth.
For the imagination, playing upon fact and experience, divines their meaning and puts us in possession of the truth and life that are in them.
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