... infrastructure of the Catholic Church was in fact strengthened in the 1630s through tolerated private practice of Catholic services and the strengthening of a Catholic "Old English," or established English settlers, position in Parliament. In Parliament, the Catholic Old English party joined with the Protestant opposition to unseat Wentworth from power. During his rule, Wentworth attempted to build up a political group to carry ... governors of Ireland (Perseval, Outbreak). Regardless of his true intentions, he could not balance the interests of the English Parliament and Protestant set...

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... New England, between 1730-1745. Dominating Calvinist orthodoxy, which was the main religion that branched off into other sections before the Great Awakening, it divided the religious community internally, into "old lights" and "new lights", those opposed and those supportive of the Great Awakening; caused primarily by a decline in worship attendance, and Enlightenment rationalism. Due to conciliations with the ... conflict in the religious community, in which the people broke off into two groups: those that supported the Great Awakening, the New Lights, and those who opposed it, the Old ...

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... in Genesim (Hebrew Questions; 390), short interpretive essays on the book of Genesis; in these essays, Jerome considers rabbinical interpretations in order to provide justification for his corrections to the Old Latin Bible. His exegetical work also includes commentaries on the twelve minor prophets (finished 406) and on the four major prophets (begun 407, unfinished); these works are collected in Opus ... ...

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... face of nature is changed, will relapse into their original barbarism. "Since the first discovery of the arts, war, commerce, and religious zeal have diffused, among the savages of the Old and New World, those inestimable gifts, they have been successively propagated; they can never be lost. We may therefore acquiesce, in the pleasing conclusion that every age of the world ... ...

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