Our Ember weeks are the burden and grief of my life. The much greater part of those who come to be ordained are ignorant, to a degree not to be apprehended by those who are not obliged to know it. The easiest part of knowledge is that to which they are... Church Principles Considered in Their Results - الصفحة 462بواسطة William Ewart Gladstone - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 562عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Thomas Erskine May - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 530
...scriptures.' ' The case is not much better in many, who, having got into orders, come for instruction and cannot make it appear that they have read the scriptures, or anyone good book, since they were ordained.'—Pastoral Care, 3rd Ed., 1713: Preface. and enjoying... | |
| Thomas Watson Smith - 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 504
...enough to be admitted to the holy sacrament.' ' The case is not much better,' he adds, ' in many who, having got into orders, come for institution, and...Scriptures, or .any one good book since they were ordained ; so that the small measure of knowledge upon which they got into holy orders not being improved, is... | |
| Abel Stevens - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 444
...many who, hav* Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion, Part III. Works, 12mo., vol. viii., p. 196. ing got into orders, come for institution, and cannot...Scriptures, or any one good book, since they were ordained ; so that the small measure of knowledge upon which they got into holy orders not being improved, is... | |
| Gregory Thurston Bedell - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 620
...the greatest strangers ; I mean the plninest parts of the Scriptures, which they say, in excuse of their ignorance, that their Tutors in the Universities never mention the reading of to them ; so that they can give no account, or at least a very imperfect one, of the contents even of the Gospels.... | |
| William Haven Daniels - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 810
...ignorant to a degree not to be apprehended by those •who are not obliged to know it. The easiest part of knowledge is that to which they are the greatest strangers : I mean the plainest parts of the Scriptures." Bishop Butler, in the preface to his " Analogy," which is itself a piece... | |
| Daniel Dorchester - 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 616
...how short and plain soever. This does often tear my heart. The case is not much better in many, who, having got into orders, come for institution, and...Scriptures or any one good book since they were ordained, so that the small measure of knowledge upon which they got into holy orders not being improved, is... | |
| Early days - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 246
...are ignorant to a degree not to be comprehended by those who are not obliged to know it. The easiest part of knowledge is that to which they are the greatest strangers — I mean the plainest parts of Scripture, which they say, in excuse for their ignorance, their tutors in the Universities... | |
| Jonathan Bayley - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 168
...are ignorant to a degree not to be apprehended by those who are not obliged to know it. The easiest part of knowledge is that to which they are the greatest strangers — I mean the plainest parts of the Scriptures. They can give no account, or at least a very imperfect one, of the contents... | |
| Randolph Sinks Foster - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 214
...even of the Catechism itself, how short and plain soever. The case is not much better in many who, having got into orders, come for institution, and...make it appear that they have read the Scriptures." Watts declares that there was " a general decay of vital religion in * Isaac Taylor's " Wesley and... | |
| Holland Nimmons McTyeire - 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 700
...are ignorant to a degree not to be apprehended by those who are not obliged to know it. The easiest part of knowledge is that to which they are the greatest...universities never mention the reading of to them ; so that they can give no account, or at least a very imperfect one, of the contents even of the Gospels.... | |
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