 They declared against superstition on the one hand, and enthusiasm on the other. They loved the constitution of the Church, and the Liturgy, and could well live under them: But they did not think it unlawful to live under another form. They wished that...  The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Page 4541911Full view - About this book
 | William Richard Wood Stephens, William Hunt - Great Britain - 1903 - 398 pages
...something in their position which made them differ from traditional Anglican theology. As Burnet says, "they loved the constitution of the Church and the...continued to keep a good correspondence with those who had differed from them in opinion, and allowed a great freedom both in philosophy and in divinity ;... | |
 | Mildred Anna Rosalie Tuker - Cambridge (England) - 1907 - 758 pages
...university.1 Here it was handled by a group of 1 Burnet, the historian of the movement, writes : " They loved the constitution of the church, and the...it unlawful to live under another form. . . . They continued to keep a good correspondence with those who differed from them in opinion, and allowed a... | |
 | Edward Augustus George - 1908 - 248 pages
...v HENRY MORE 112 v JEREMY TAYLOR 132 v THOMAS BROWNE 156 ^ RICHARD BAXTER . . 180 MEN OF LATITUDE " They loved the constitution of the church and the...continued to keep a good correspondence with those who had differed from them in opinion, and allowed a great freedom both in philosophy and in divinity:... | |
 | Gordon Crosse - Church history - 1912 - 702 pages
...(qv) who opposed ' superstitious conceits and a fierceness about opinions.' They, in Burnet's words, ' loved the constitution of the Church, and the liturgy, and could well live under them. . . . They were all very zealous against Popery.' One of the earliest apologies for Latitudinarianisin... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - Great Britain - 1918 - 398 pages
...been done formerly. They declared against superstition on the one hand, and enthusiasm on the other. They loved the constitution of the Church, and the...more moderation. And they continued to keep a good 30 correspondence with those who had differed from them in opinion, and allowed a great freedom both... | |
 | Alfred Alexander Mumford - Education - 1919 - 608 pages
...had been done formerly. They declared against superstition on one hand, and enthusiasm on the other. They loved the constitution of the Church and the...unlawful to live under another form. They wished that all things might have been carried out with more moderation, and they continued to 1 In 1645 they were... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Christian biography - 1922 - 350 pages
...been done formerly. They declared against superstition on the one hand, and enthusiasm on the other. They loved the constitution of the Church, and the...continued to keep a good correspondence with those who had differed from them in opinion, and allowed a great freedom both in philosophy and in divinity.... | |
 | Anglo-Catholicism - 1922 - 530 pages
...preferring the Protestant sects to Catholicism, especially, of course, to Roman Catholicism. He says : "They loved the constitution of the Church and the...things might have been carried with more moderation." That means, a liturgy making more concessions to Puritanism, hence less Catholic. "They were all very... | |
 | Colie - Philosophy - 1957 - 188 pages
...LE CLERC Of the Latitudinarians, the 'Gentlemen of wide Swallow', Gilbert Burnet wrote: They wished things might have been carried with more moderation;...and allowed a great freedom both in philosophy and in divinity: from whence they were called men of latitude. And upon this men of narrower thoughts and... | |
 | Martin Ignatius Joseph Griffin - History - 1992 - 242 pages
...Burnet described them, the superintending design of the thought of the Cambridge men was moderation. "They loved the constitution of the Church, and the...it unlawful to live under another form. . . . They continued to keep a good correspondence with those who had differed from them in opinion, and allowed... | |
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