To preach Christ is the only effective way of preaching morality in all its branches; and out of your humble cottages I have gathered a lesson, which I pray God I may be enabled to carry with all its simplicity into a wider theatre, and to bring with all the power of its subduing efficiency upon the vices of a more crowded population. - Thomas Chalmers after induction to the Tron Kirk Glasgow 21 July 18510
John Henry Newman and his brother, Francis, the one to enter the Roman Church, and the other, first to be one of the founders of the Christian Brethren, and later had to abandon the Christian faith. - Andrew L Drummond and James Bulloch, The Scottish Church 1688-1843, P.ß 193 (John Henry was evangelical Anglican before going RC)
,“That no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm: So help me God.- The Bill of Rights, Parliament of Great Britain, 1689
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