Several of the bishops were, in fact, "latitudinarian" or "Arminian" in doctrine, wanderers from the severity of Knox and Calvin. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Scotland] Reference
I am ready to stand with the latitudinarian Mandeville. From Wordnik.com. [The Collectors] Reference
I take a very latitudinarian view of poetry — and literature. From Wordnik.com. [Progress report on online poetry ...] Reference
In this manner, and by recruiting one or two latitudinarian poachers and black-fishers, Mr. From Wordnik.com. [Old Mortality] Reference
But here is what neither Papist nor Puritan, latitudinarian nor precisian, ever boggles or makes mouths at. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
It is commonly the loose and latitudinarian Christians who pay quite indefensible compliments to Christianity. From Wordnik.com. [Orthodoxy] Reference
In Madison's Federalist 44, Publius considered the possibility of latitudinarian constructions of the new charter. From Wordnik.com. ["From Interposition to Nullification: Peripheries and Center in the Thought of James Madison." Kevin Raeder Gutzman.] Reference
Instead of walking in them, Christians are now falling a prey to a latitudinarian spirit of the most destructive kind. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Home] Reference
You all know how grieved I am to see a bishop in this diocese holding the latitudinarian ideas by which Dr. Proudie has made himself conspicuous. From Wordnik.com. [Barchester Towers] Reference
Follow God's command to the limit allowed by the Constitution, yes -- and I am fairly latitudinarian about where that limit is -- but no further. From Wordnik.com. ["We're still on our feet, and much to the amazement of many, we're getting there, folks, we're getting there."] Reference
Nothing of the above author's recanting his former latitudinarian practices of hearing, and thereby practically encouraging, that vagrant Episcopalian. From Wordnik.com. [Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive] Reference
Papist and sceptic, mystic and ceremonialist, latitudinarian and. From Wordnik.com. [History of the English People, Volume VI (of 8) Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683] Reference
As a theologian, Tillotson was certainly not less latitudinarian than. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3] Reference
For instance: The present law of Vermont is latitudinarian is these very particulars. From Wordnik.com. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III)] Reference
His opinions respecting ecclesiastical polity and modes of worship were latitudinarian. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2] Reference
Of course, one waits in vain to hear the latitudinarian, subjectivist types apply the same. From Wordnik.com. [Heidelblog] Reference
Good sound crushing, rending, comfortable nails of doctrine -- none of your airy latitudinarian tin-tacks. From Wordnik.com. ['That Very Mab'] Reference
'Nasty latitudinarian piece of machinery,' said Robert, with his fingers over his mouth, like a sulky child. From Wordnik.com. [Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster] Reference
The selection filled to the brim the cup of bitterness, for no man was more audaciously latitudinarian than he. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Some hold the most rigid theories with regard to marriage and divorce; others are latitudinarian on these questions. From Wordnik.com. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III)] Reference
He surely was not in the episcopal conspiracy, at least; and perchance may give the latitudinarian, the anabaptist, the. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity] Reference
It has touched even puritanical and non-episcopal bodies, and it is sometimes combined with extremely latitudinarian opinions. From Wordnik.com. [The Map of Life Conduct and Character] Reference
He went regularly to the Meeting House, but never spoke, while his theology was of too latitudinarian a nature, to be "sound.". From Wordnik.com. [All for a Scrap of Paper A Romance of the Present War] Reference
The secondary error in this respect is a latitudinarian liberality which regards truth and falsehood as matters of indifference. From Wordnik.com. [The Recreations of a Country Parson] Reference
Let him but see the absurdities of the latitudinarian principle, when carried out, and he is likely to be still more opposed to it. From Wordnik.com. [Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert] Reference
The latitudinarian philosophy, the analytical acuteness, the sceptical toleration of Erasmus were alike strange and distasteful to him. From Wordnik.com. [Short Studies on Great Subjects] Reference
Russell, the latitudinarian, the erastian, the appropriationist, the despoiler; and worse still, of Molesworth, sometimes denounced as a. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859] Reference
In later years Croft showed latitudinarian tendencies in his writings, which may have been apparent in his conversation at an earlier date, and may well have alienated Clarendon. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02] Reference
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