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Page xi
... once to affirm that the English Bible is at present in the act of being perused from the rising to the setting sun . The assertion might appear little else than a figure of speech , or an event to be anti- cipated ; and yet this is no ...
... once to affirm that the English Bible is at present in the act of being perused from the rising to the setting sun . The assertion might appear little else than a figure of speech , or an event to be anti- cipated ; and yet this is no ...
Page xii
... once look down to the valley below , and , guided only by impartial history , observe the singular path by which the nation has been led up to such an eminence , we should better understand what , and how much , is involved in the ...
... once look down to the valley below , and , guided only by impartial history , observe the singular path by which the nation has been led up to such an eminence , we should better understand what , and how much , is involved in the ...
Page xiii
... once aware of circumstances , when he himself sits down to the perusal of the sacred page , whether in the temperate , the torrid , or the frigid zone , he will be better able to regard the favour , as one of the innumerable happy ...
... once aware of circumstances , when he himself sits down to the perusal of the sacred page , whether in the temperate , the torrid , or the frigid zone , he will be better able to regard the favour , as one of the innumerable happy ...
Page xvii
... once imperial city of WORMS , where our first English New Testa- ments appear to have been finished , and where a printing - press was first set up , three hundred and thirty years ago , any man may now enter , and either reflect on the ...
... once imperial city of WORMS , where our first English New Testa- ments appear to have been finished , and where a printing - press was first set up , three hundred and thirty years ago , any man may now enter , and either reflect on the ...
Page xxiv
... once more . PAGE 82 MDXXVIII . Tyndale and Fryth - Present persecution in England - Arrested by pre- vailing disease - Persecution in Antwerp - Nobly withstood , and the English Envoy defeated - Wolsey's pursuit after Tyndale and others ...
... once more . PAGE 82 MDXXVIII . Tyndale and Fryth - Present persecution in England - Arrested by pre- vailing disease - Persecution in Antwerp - Nobly withstood , and the English Envoy defeated - Wolsey's pursuit after Tyndale and others ...
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Page 631 - For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Page 316 - Feast of next coming, one Book of the whole Bible of the largest Volume in English, and the same set up in some convenient place within the said Church that ye have cure of, whereas your Parishioners may most commodiously resort to the same and read it...
Page 383 - His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
Page 474 - THE / HOLY BIBLE / CONTAINING / THE OLD TESTAMENT / AND / THE NEW / NEWLY TRANSLATED OUT OF THE / ORIGINAL TONGUES / AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY / COMPARED AND REVISED / BY HIS MAJESTY'S SPECIAL COMMAND / APPOINTED TO BE READ IN CHURCHES / LONDON / Printed by Mark Baskett, / Printer to the King's most / Excellent Majesty; by the Assigns of / Robert Baskett.
Page 472 - Father's hand, under our feet and over our heads, but only the Hebrew of the Old Testament and the Greek of the New.
Page 650 - Truly, good Christian reader, we never thought from the beginning that we should need to make a new translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one...
Page 471 - No marginal notes at all to be affixed, but only for the explanation of the Hebrew or Greek words, which cannot, without some circumlocution, so briefly and fitly be expressed in the text.
Page 471 - ... 9. As any one company hath dispatched any one book in this manner, they shall send it to the rest to be considered of seriously and judiciously, for his Majesty is very careful in this point. 10. If any company, upon the review of the book so sent...
Page 650 - THE HOLY BIBLE, conteyning the Old ' Testament and the New : Newly Translated out of the ' Originall Tongues : and with the former Translations ' diligently compared and reuised, by his Maiesties ' speciall Commandement . Appointed to be read in
Page 395 - There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.