 | Abel Stevens - 1873 - عدد الصفحات: 632
...of the clergy, he says : " Our emberweeks are the burden and grief of my life. The much greater part of those who come to be ordained are ignorant to a...who are not obliged to know it. The easiest part of the knowledge is that to which they are the greatest strangers. Those who have read some few books,... | |
 | 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 992
...Bishop Burnet, a hundred and sixty-four years ago, " are the burden of my life. The much greater part of those who come to be ordained are ignorant to a...or at least a very imperfect one, of the contents even of the Gospels, or of the Catechism itself." The slight acquaintance of candidates for orders... | |
 | Gregory Thurston Bedell - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 620
...translation. Bishop Burnet says : " Our Ember weeks aro the burden and grief of my life. The much greater part of those who come to be Ordained are ignorant to a...know it. The easiest part of knowledge is that to * Meade, pp. 50, 51. which they arc the greatest strangers ; I mean the plninest parts of the Scriptures,... | |
 | William Haven Daniels - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 810
...1713, speaking of the candidates for ordination in the State Church, says : " The much greater part of those who come to be ordained are ignorant to a...strangers : I mean the plainest parts of the Scriptures." Bishop Butler, in the preface to his " Analogy," which is itself a piece of devout rationalism, declares... | |
 | Early days - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 246
...unhappily fallen. . . . 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 comprehended by those who are not obliged to know it. The easiest part of knowledge is that to which... | |
 | Jonathan Bayley - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 168
...the same period, 1713 : — "Our Ember weeks are the burden and grief of my life. The greater part of those who come to be ordained are ignorant to a...contents of the gospels, or of the catechism itself." * We read the high church clergy were moral, and many of them talented and learned, but they were as... | |
 | Randolph Sinks Foster - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 214
...the inward state into which we are unhappily fallen." Of the clergy he says, " The much greater part of those who come to be ordained are ignorant to a...easiest part of knowledge is that to which they are most strangers. Those who have read some few books never seem to have read the Scriptures. Many cannot... | |
 | Samuel Macnaughton - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 348
...ministry." Of the ignorance of the clergy he says, " The much greater part of those who come to me to be ordained are ignorant to a degree not to be...apprehended by those who are not obliged to know it. Those who have read some few books, yet never seem to have read the Scriptures." Such was the lamentable... | |
 | Holland Nimmons McTyeire - 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 700
...confine myself to the clergy. 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...they are the greatest strangers; I mean the plainest part of the Scriptures, which they say, in excuse for their ignorance, that their tutors in the universities... | |
 | 1872 - عدد الصفحات: 630
...the Nonconformists and in the Church. Bishop Burnet complains that the candidates for Holy Orders " can give no account, or at least a very imperfect one, of the contents even of the Gospels, or of the Catechism itself." The inferior clergy were so straitened in means,... | |
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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. 
