The correspondence of Isaac Basire, with a memoir of his life by W.N. Darnell

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Side 148 - Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, And lest they should say, 'Our hand is high, And the Lord hath not done all this.' For they are a nation void of counsel, Neither is there any understanding in them.
Side 148 - I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they 27 should say, our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
Side 160 - In the afternoon, preached at the Abbey Dr. Basire, that great traveller, or rather French Apostle, who had been planting the Church of England in divers parts of the Levant and Asia. He showed that the Church of England was, for purity of doctrine, substance, decency, and beauty, the most perfect under Heaven ; that England was the very land of Goshen.
Side 149 - How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, Except their Rock ' had sold them, and the LORD had delivered them up? 31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
Side 91 - And to such a communion, together with a convenient reformation of some grosser errours, it hath been my constant design to dispose and incline them. Haply, some months hence, before I leave these parts, I shall passe into Egypt, that I may take a survey of the churches of the Cophtics, and conferre with the patriarch of Alexandria, as I have done already with the other three patriarchs, partly to acquire the knowledge of those churches, and partly to publish ours "quantum fert status.
Side 91 - I have received from the Civil Consul, Mr. Henry Riley. This last spring I departed from Aleppo, and came hither by land (six hundred miles) all alone, I mean without either servant or Christian, or any man with me that could so much as speak the Frank language. Yet by the help of some Arabike I had pickt up at Aleppo, I did perform this journey in the company of twenty Turks, who used me courteously, the rather because I was their physician, and of their friends by the way (a study whereunto the...
Side 165 - A View of the Government and Publick Worship of God in the Reformed Churches beyond the Seas,
Side 91 - Arabick, the native language there. From Aleppo, I went this last year to Jerusalem, and so travelled over all Palestina. At Jerusalem I received much honor both from the Greeks and Latins. The Greek patriarch, the better to express his desire of communion with our old Church of England...
Side 15 - God's owne, my soule hath bcene much taken with. The first was made by a French bishop, yet is the booke free from Popery, (for I have read it aforehand for your soule's saecke): only where you see a crosse at the margent, there it may be mistaken by some; else, all is safe.
Side 91 - I had declared unto them my resolution to officiate according to our liturgy, (the translation whereof, for want of a printed copy, cost me no little labour,) they have as yet hitherto orderly submitted to it, and promised to settle me, in three salvable men's hands, a competent stipend : and all this, as they tell me, with the expresse consent of the French Ambassador, but still under the roof and protection (eatenus) of the English Ambassador. How long this liberty may last I know not, because...

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