 | William Connor Sydney - 1891 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...Oxford, to the clergy of that diocese, his eyes would have alighted upon the following passage :— Men have always complained of their own times, and always...comparing one age with another, yet in this we cannot be mistaken—that an open and profound disregard to religion is becoming the distinguishing characteristic... | |
 | Henry de Beltgens Gibbins - 1892 - عدد الصفحات: 290
...said in his charge of _j738 (the year, by the way, when Wesley first began itinerant_/^ preaching), "An open and professed disregard to religion is become, through a variety of unhappy causes, a distinguishing character of the present age. This evil is grown to a great height in the metropolis... | |
 | Horace Jewell - 1892 - عدد الصفحات: 474
...rises chiefly from the inward state into which we are unhappily fallen." Archbishop Seeker said : " In this we cannot be mistaken that an open and professed disregard is become through a variety of causes the distinguishing characteristic of the present age." Cardinal... | |
 | Henry Clay Sheldon - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 466
...that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious." Archbishop Seeker wrote to the same effect : " In this we cannot be mistaken, that an open and professed disregard of religion is become, through a variety of unhappy causes, the distinguishing character of the present... | |
 | Charles Arthur Lane - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 326
...picture of the times we learn from an official charge of Archbishop Potter, AD 1738, which states : — " An open and professed disregard to religion is become through a variety of unhappy causes a distinguishing character of the present age. This evil is grown to a great height in the metropolis... | |
 | William Richard Wood Stephens, William Hunt - 1906 - عدد الصفحات: 404
...in his first charge to the clergy of the Oxford Diocese : — " Yet this we cannot be mistaken in, that an open and professed disregard to religion is become, through a variety of unhappy causes, the distinguishing character of the present vin SECKER'S NARROWNESS 121 age; that this evil is grown to... | |
 | John Henry Overton, Frederic Relton - 1906 - عدد الصفحات: 446
...sounded in his first charge to the clergy of the Oxford Diocese : — "Yet this we cannot be mistaken in, that an open and professed disregard to religion is become, through a variety of unhappy causes, the distinguishing character of the present vin SECKEKS NARROWNESS 121 age; that this evil is grown to... | |
 | Alfred Plummer - 1910 - عدد الصفحات: 268
...former ones." 1 His friend Secker, in a Charge to the Oxford clergy in 1738, says much the same. "Men have always complained of their own times, and always with too much reason." But he thinks that there can be no doubt " that an open and profound disregard to religion is becoming... | |
 | 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 688
...ourselves. Our native authorities fully confirm this account. • Though,' said Bishop Seeker, in 1738, ' it 'is natural to think those evils the greatest which...with another, yet in this we cannot be mistaken, that in open and professed disregard to religion is become the distinguishing character of the present age.'... | |
 | Sylvanus Milne Duvall - 1928 - عدد الصفحات: 152
...Archbishop of Canterbury complains in his charge of 1738 (the year Wesley began itinerant preaching): An open and professed disregard to religion is become, through a variety of unhappy causes, a distinguishing character of the present age. This evil is grown to a great height in the metropolis... | |
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... in this we cannot be mistaken, that an open and professed disregard > to religion is become, through a variety of unhappy causes, the distinguishing character of the present age... 
