ISBN: 9781130611250

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 64 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purc… More...

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 64 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: . . . nothing of the Business. A Satire upon all those Clergymen that meddle with Matters they do not understand. 5. All confess there never was a more learned Clergy; no Man taxes them with Ignorance. But to talk of that, is like the fellow that was a great Wencher; he wishd God would forgive him his Lechery, and lay Usury to his Charge. The Clergy have worse Faults. 6. The Clergy and the Laity together are never like to do well; tis as if a Man were to make an excellent Feast, and should have his Apothecary and his Physician come into the Kitchen; the Cooks if they were let alone would make excellent Meat; but then comes the Apothecary and he puts Rhubarb into one Sauce and Agarick into another Sauce. Chain up the Clergy on both sides. High Commission. EN cry out upon the High Commission, as if the Clergymen only had to do in it, when. I believe there are more Lay-men in Commission there, than Clergy-men; if the Lay-men will Chain up both sides, i. e. Court-clergy and Puritan. t Established in the first year of Eliz. in place of a greater power under the Pope, (says Clarendon, ) Commissioners who exercised the Kings Ecclesiastical Supremacy. Intended as a Court to reform manners, it grew to a contempt of the Common Law--to reprehend the Judges, and c. It was abolished in 1641. not come, whose fault is that So of the Star-Chamber; the People think the Bishops only censurd Prynne, Burton, and Bastwick, when there were but two there, and one spake not in his own Case. House of Commons. HERE be but two Erroneous Opinions in the House of Commons: That the Lords sit only for themselves, when the Truth is, they sit as well for the Commonwealth. The Knights and Burgesses sit for themselves and others, some for more, some for fewer; and what is the Rea. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<