item: #1 of 12 id: 11771 author: Church, R. W. (Richard William) title: Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890, Vol. 2 date: None words: 128284 flesch: 55 summary: If he judged himself correctly, and if the Baptist described him well when he compared him to a lamb, and, we may add, if his biographers have delineated his character faithfully, Christ was one naturally contented with obscurity, wanting the restless desire for distinction and eminence which is common in great men, hating to put forward personal claims, disliking competition and disputes who should be greatest, finding something bombastic in the titles of royalty, fond of what is simple and homely, of children, of poor people, occupying himself so much with the concerns of others, with the relief of sickness and want, that the temptation to exaggerate the importance of his own thoughts and plans was not likely to master him; lastly, entertaining for the human race a feeling so singularly fraternal that he was likely to reject as a sort of treason the impulse to set himself in any manner above them. It did not pretend to rise so high, to answer such great questions, to lay down such precise definitions. keywords: account; authority; belief; believe; book; case; catholic; change; character; christ; christianity; church; course; doctrine; doubt; england; english; experience; fact; faith; feeling; force; form; god; good; history; human; idea; interest; judgment; language; law; life; little; man; matter; men; mere; mind; miracles; moral; nature; new; newman; order; people; place; point; power; present; public; question; real; reason; religion; renan; right; roman; rome; self; sense; set; spirit; state; subject; system; things; thought; time; truth; use; view; way; words; work; world; writer cache: 11771.txt plain text: 11771.txt item: #2 of 12 id: 13200 author: Reformed Presbytery of North America title: Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive date: None words: 99383 flesch: 42 summary: He having before, in 1660, when _Argyle_ was apprehended, been ordered, together with several others, to be secured and committed to prison, fled beyond sea, to escape the fury of his enemies, and even there did their crafty malice reach him; for, having sent out one of their blood-thirsty emissaries in quest of him, he was apprehended by him at Roan, in France, brought over to London, and sent thence to Edinburgh, where he was executed on a former unjust sentence of forfeiture and death, passed upon him in his absence. That _history_ and _argument_ are so rejected by all parties affecting to be _reformed_ churches, will appear from the following citations from their own authoritative judicial declarations: Authentic history and sound argument are always to be highly valued; but they should not be incorporated with the confession of the Church's faith. keywords: act; acts; assembly; authority; cause; christ; christian; church; church government; civil; constitution; contrary; covenanted; declare; divine; duty; enemies; faithful; god; government; jesus; king; kingdom; law; laws; lord; ministers; national; nations; office; parliament; people; power; presbytery; present; principles; public; reformation; religion; revolution; right; scotland; scriptural; solemn; state; testimony; time; truth; word; work cache: 13200.txt plain text: 13200.txt item: #3 of 12 id: 14661 author: Kearns, Thomas title: Conditions in Utah Speech of Hon. Thomas Kearns of Utah, in the Senate of the United States date: None words: 9297 flesch: 64 summary: Early in 1902 warning had been publicly uttered in the State against the continued manifestation of church power in politics. They sought what is known as church influence. keywords: business; church; country; man; monarchy; mormon; people; power; president; states; united; utah cache: 14661.txt plain text: 14661.txt item: #4 of 12 id: 31670 author: Furness, William Henry title: A Discourse for the Time, delivered January 4, 1852 in the First Congregational Unitarian Church date: None words: 5348 flesch: 66 summary: So, then, the fact that private men are interested in public affairs, even though it be attended with a good deal of excitement,--that is not the thing to be deplored. If your public affairs, as they are directed in your Public Councils, were uncontrolled by the sentiments of private men, they would soon be coming down into our streets and into our private dwellings with a most disastrous influence. keywords: interest; life; man; men; people; public cache: 31670.txt plain text: 31670.txt item: #5 of 12 id: 33896 author: Dante Alighieri title: Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. date: None words: 87919 flesch: 78 summary: This view satisfied thinkers to the time of Hooker (_E.P._ I. iii.), but was criticised by Bacon, _Nov. Org. The Divine Comedy_ have been corrected using the Italian-English Princeton University Press edition (trans. keywords: 12_s; 8vo; argument; art; authority; beauty; book; cambridge; cause; character; charles; che; christ; church; city; college; come; commedia; course; crown 8vo; dante; day; demy 8vo; divine; earth; edition; emperor; empire; end; england; english; essays; faith; fcap; feeling; florence; follows; footnote; form; general; ghibelline; glory; god; good; government; greek; guelf; heaven; history; idea; iii; illustrations; inf; italian; italy; john; judgment; justice; king; language; late; latin; law; laws; letters; liberty; life; like; literature; ll.d; lord; love; m.a; man; manifest; mankind; maps; meaning; means; men; mind; modern; monarch; nature; new; non; order; parad; parts; peace; people; peter; poem; poet; poetry; pope; portrait; power; prince; principle; professor; public; purg; purpose; question; race; reason; right; roman; rome; rule; second; sense; series; sir; society; son; soul; spirit; state; subject; temporal; things; thought; time; truth; universal; university; vicar; virgil; vols; volume; way; words; work; world; year cache: 33896.txt plain text: 33896.txt item: #6 of 12 id: 37302 author: Stephens, William title: An Account of the Growth of Deism in England date: None words: 9625 flesch: 67 summary: Charles_'s Restoration, or King _ Nor can any Sovereign Prince keep his Word or Oath, though he had only sworn to maintain those Laws by which he Reigns as King, any longer than this Spiritual Fatherhood will give him leave, as _Lewis_ XIV. keywords: christ; christian; church; clergy; england; god; king; man; men; power; religion; right cache: 37302.txt plain text: 37302.txt item: #7 of 12 id: 37693 author: Alberger, John title: Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues date: None words: 100253 flesch: 48 summary: The popes, by the means of bulls, have attempted to nullify these acts, but nevertheless they form the distinctive principles of the Gallican Church, and also of other Catholic churches in different; kingdoms of Europe. MONKS, POPES, AND THEIR POLITICAL INTRIGUES By John Alberger Like lambs have we crept into power; like wolves have we used it; like dogs have we been driven out; like eagles shall we renew our youth. keywords: absolute; ambition; army; authority; bishops; blood; catholic; catholicism; cause; character; charles; church; claim; clergy; condition; conduct; constitution; council; crown; death; designs; despotism; ecclesiastical; emperor; england; fact; father; favor; france; general; god; government; henry; holy; human; iii; intrigues; john; king; kingdom; liberty; life; machinery; means; mind; monastic; monks; nation; nature; order; papal; people; place; policy; pope; power; priests; princes; principles; protestants; public; reason; religion; right; rome; secret; spiritual; state; subjects; temporal; throne; time; virtue; vow; war; world; years cache: 37693.txt plain text: 37693.txt item: #8 of 12 id: 38391 author: Cunningham, Francis A. (Francis Aloysius) title: The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-Christianism in Europe date: None words: 121858 flesch: 59 summary: The new government, in the hands of men more impious than those of the Constituent, began their proceedings with the passage of new laws of persecution, to which, however, the king had the courage to refuse his sanction. (Law of July 8, 1880) the military Mass was suppressed, and the troops were forbidden to take part--as a body--in any religious ceremonies (Ministerial circulars of December 7 and 29, 1883), nor were they permitted even to enter a Catholic Church in a body (Decree October 23, 1883); moreover, numerous Catholic military associations were closed upon the slightest pretext. keywords: anti; article; authority; bishops; bismarck; bonaparte; cardinal; catholic; christian; church; civil; clergy; concordat; congregations; consul; council; country; day; days; death; emperor; end; fact; faith; father; following; form; france; french; general; germany; god; good; government; hands; holy; holy father; illustration; influence; jesuits; king; law; laws; liberty; life; man; march; members; minister; napoleon; new; order; papal; paris; party; people; pius; place; pope; portugal; power; present; priests; property; public; reason; regard; religion; republic; revolution; rights; roman; rome; schools; separation; society; spain; spirit; state; time; vii; war; way; words; work; world; worship; years cache: 38391.txt plain text: 38391.txt item: #9 of 12 id: 39622 author: Mangasarian, M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) title: The Church In Politics—Americans Beware! date: None words: 7947 flesch: 72 summary: That there can be state churches in any country other than the Catholic church. Had the document been created by infidels it could not have been more indifferent to the subject of church or religion. keywords: catholic; church; country; emperor; france; french; god; napoleon; pope; power; republic; rome cache: 39622.txt plain text: 39622.txt item: #10 of 12 id: 40211 author: Carlile, Richard title: Church Reform The Only Means to That End, Stated in a Letter to Sir Robert Peel, Bart., First Lord of the Treasury date: None words: 24768 flesch: 59 summary: Repentance and enquiry are the pillars and foundations of that Church; without repentance and enquiry there can be no Church of Christ; and I ask, confidently ask, with the assurance that a true answer must be in the negative,--has anything calling itself a Christian Church in Europe, established by law, or dissenting from such an establishment, anything to do with the two principles of repentance and proving, the one meaning reflection by animadversion, the other a trial by outward tests of that reflection? This, Sir, is a true picture or effigies of the moral Trinity of the Christian Church, which you will find to be a key to every mysterious sentence of the Bible; and I ask you seriously, as between man and man, is any thing of this kind known or practised in the present Church? Are not the ministers of that Church afraid of every new discovery in science? keywords: christ; christian; church; dissent; god; good; human; knowledge; man; mind; moral; mystery; people; power; present; reform; religion; revelation; spirit; state; subject; time cache: 40211.txt plain text: 40211.txt item: #11 of 12 id: 42331 author: Moor, J. F. (John Frewen) title: The Duty of Submission to Civil Authority, A Sermon Preached in the Parish Church of Bradfield, Berkes, on Sunday, November 28, 1830, on Occasion of the Late Disturbances date: None words: 5645 flesch: 74 summary: While the laws of the land and the laws of God are one, in breaking the one we break the other, so that if it could be said of the early Christians living under a _heathen_ government, Whosoever resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God; and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation,[11] with how much more truth may it be said of us, if, living under a _Christian_ government, we refuse to render unto all their dues, tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom, fear to whom fear, honour to whom honour. How few are obedient to the powers that be, as ordained of God! keywords: authority; god; governors; king; laws; man; submission cache: 42331.txt plain text: 42331.txt item: #12 of 12 id: 45006 author: Smith, Joseph, Jr. title: General Smith's Views of the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States date: None words: 5652 flesch: 43 summary: I think Mr. Pitt's quotation in the British Parliament of Mr. Prior's couplet for the husband and wife, to apply to the course which the king and ministry of England should pursue to the then colonies of the _now_ United States, might be a genuine rule of action for some of the _breath made_ men in high places, to use towards the posterity of this noble, daring people: Be to her faults a little blind; Be to her virtues very kind. My cogitations, like Daniel's, have for a long time troubled me, when I viewed the condition of men throughout the world, and more especially in this boasted realm, where the Declaration of Independence holds these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, but at the same time some two or three millions of people are held as slaves for life, because the spirit in them is covered with a darker skin than ours: and hundreds of our kindred for an infraction, or supposed infraction of some over wise statute, have to be incarcerated in dungeon glooms, or suffer the more moral penitentiary gravitation of mercy in a nut-shell, while the duelist, the debauchee, and the defaulter for millions, and other criminals, take the upper-most rooms at feasts, or, like the bird of passage find a more congenial clime by flight. keywords: constitution; country; government; liberty; man; nation; people; power; rights; states; union; united; world cache: 45006.txt plain text: 45006.txt