 | Frederic Augustus Blaydes - 1886 - 450 Seiten
...their rector, but it is only one of them that will occupy us on the present occasion. They allege that he " hath declared in the public congregation that he had rather hear a plain country man speak in the church that came from the plough than the best orthodox minister that was... | |
 | Frederic Augustus Blaydes - 1889 - 442 Seiten
...Booth would have cut the throats of all the godly in England ; has entrapped the gentry of the country into discourse, and then given false information against...plain countryman speak in the church that came from a plough than the best orthodox minister that was in the country : upon Christmas-day last one Bunyon,... | |
 | John Venn - 1901 - 312 Seiten
...sing any psalms or read any chapters in the Holy Bible on the Lord's Day in the congregation. . . . He has entrapped the gentry of the county into discourse,...congregation that he had rather hear a plain countryman that came from the plough speak in the church than the best orthodox minister that was in the county.... | |
 | John Brown - 1928 - 648 Seiten
...Cambridge, also his rectory. He died In 1664 and was by his own wish burled In unconsecrated ground. in the public congregation that he had rather hear...plough than the best orthodox minister that was in the country. Upon Christmas Day last one Bunyan, of Bedford, a tinker, was countenanced and suffered to... | |
 | Harold Edwin Balme Speight - 1928 - 262 Seiten
...one Bunyan, a tinker, into his pulpit, and that he had said he had "rather hear a plain country man speak in the Church that came from the plough than the best orthodox minister that was in the country." They have also all too often paid the penalty of separation from those ministries of beauty... | |
 | E. Brooks Holifield - 2003 - 629 Seiten
...reformers such as William Dell in England, himself an educated college master, could declare that he would "rather hear a plain countryman speak in the church,...that came from the plough, than the best orthodox minister."26 By then the image could merge with another trope, that of the "Mechanick" preacher, who... | |
 | E. Brooks Holifield - 2007 - 367 Seiten
...Spirit. The reformer William Dell in England declared in the mid-seventeenth century that he would "rather hear a plain countryman speak in the church,...that came from the plough, than the best orthodox minister."53 In seventeenth-century England, the civil wars of the 16405 produced a flurry of mechanic... | |
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... rather hear a plain countryman speak in the church, that came from the plough, than the best orthodox minister that was in the... 