Bp. Stillingfleet
Cited as Bp. Stillingfleet. — 28 quotations
Clutch
I must have . . . little care of myself, if I ever more come near the clutches of such a giant.
Convert
The Jesuits did not persuade the converts to lay aside the use of images.
Corporeity
The one attributed corporeity to God.
Critical
Virgil was so critical in the rites of religion, that he would never have brought in such prayers as these, if they had not been agreeable to the Roman customs.
Denial
You ought to converse with so much sincerity that your bare affirmation or denial may be sufficient.
disentangle
A mind free and disentangled from all corporeal mixtures.
Divinity
When he attributes divinity to other things than God, it is only a divinity by way of participation.
Eldest
Their eldest historians are of suspected credit.
Endow
Endowing hospitals and almshouses.
Equivocate
All that Garnet had to say for him was that he supposed he meant to equivocate.
Except
Wherein (if we only except the unfitness of the judge) all other things concurred.
Excuss
To excuss the notation of a Geity out of their minds.
Formality
The formality of the vow lies in the promise made to God.
Incongruity
The fathers make use of this acknowledgment of the incongruity of images to the Deity, from thence to prove the incongruity of the worship of them.
Incorporate
The idolaters, who worshiped their images as gods, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein.
Indeposable
Princes indeposable by the pope.
Insert
These words were very weakly inserted where they will be so liable to misconstruction.
Journey
We must all have the same journey's end.
Ordain
Meletius was ordained by Arian bishops.
Paraphrase
We are put to construe and paraphrase our own words.
Participation
These deities are so by participation.
Primer
The primer, or office of the Blessed Virgin.
Recantation
The poor man was imprisoned for this discovery, and forced to make a public recantation.
Recriminate
It is not my business to recriminate, hoping sufficiently to clear myself in this matter.
Retract
I would as freely have retracted this charge of idolatry as I ever made it.
Rude
Rude and unpolished stones.
Solemn
The worship of this image was advanced, and a solemn supplication observed everry year.
Useless
Even our blessed Savior's preaching, who spake as never man spake, was ineffectual to many.