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... hope , and esteemed the deviser of a new and pernicious paradox , I felt no difference within me from that peace and firmness of mind , which is of nearest kin to pa- tience and contentment ; both for that I knew I had divulged a truth ...
... hope , and esteemed the deviser of a new and pernicious paradox , I felt no difference within me from that peace and firmness of mind , which is of nearest kin to pa- tience and contentment ; both for that I knew I had divulged a truth ...
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... hope will be enough to excuse me with the mere Englishman , to be no forger of new and loose opinions . Others may read him in his own phrase on the first to the Corinthians , and ease me who never could delight in long citations , much ...
... hope will be enough to excuse me with the mere Englishman , to be no forger of new and loose opinions . Others may read him in his own phrase on the first to the Corinthians , and ease me who never could delight in long citations , much ...
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... hope , fixed only upon the flesh , renders likewise the whole faculty of his apprehension carnal ; and all the inward acts of worship , issuing from the native strength of the soul , run out lavishly to the upper skin , and there harden ...
... hope , fixed only upon the flesh , renders likewise the whole faculty of his apprehension carnal ; and all the inward acts of worship , issuing from the native strength of the soul , run out lavishly to the upper skin , and there harden ...
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... hope of England their lost darling , longer than the government of bishops bolsters them out ; and therefore plot all they can to uphold them , as may be seen by the book of Santa Clara , the popish priest , in defence of bishops ...
... hope of England their lost darling , longer than the government of bishops bolsters them out ; and therefore plot all they can to uphold them , as may be seen by the book of Santa Clara , the popish priest , in defence of bishops ...
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... hope to be better lighted , than by those luminaries that God hath set up to shine to us far nearer hand . And what reforma- tion he wrought for his own time , it will not be amiss to consider ; he appointed certain times for fasts and ...
... hope to be better lighted , than by those luminaries that God hath set up to shine to us far nearer hand . And what reforma- tion he wrought for his own time , it will not be amiss to consider ; he appointed certain times for fasts and ...
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ancient Answ answer antiquity apostles authority better bishop bishop of Rome bring Brownists called carnal cause ceremonies Christ christian church government civil Claudius Salmasius command commonwealth Commonwealth of England confess confuter copacy corruption council Defence discipline divine doctrine doth England episcopacy epistle esteem evil eyes faith false fathers fear friends give God's gospel hand hath holy honor Ignatius Irenæus John Milton judge jurisdiction king kingdom labor learned less lest liberty liturgy Lord Martin Bucer martyrs ment Milton mind minister monarchy never ordination papists parliament pope prayer preaching prelates presbyters presbytery priest prose readers reason reformation religion Remonstrant Rome saith schism scripture Smectymnuus soul spirit St Paul Sulpitius Severus teach tell thee things thou thought tion true truth tyranny virtue whenas wherein whereof whole wisdom wise word write
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Página 148 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Página 146 - ... to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ...
Página 238 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Página xxx - The Tenure Of Kings And Magistrates: Proving, That it is Lawful!, and hath been held so through all Ages, for any, who have the Power, to call to account a Tyrant, or wicked King, and after due conviction, to depose, and put him to death; if the ordinary Magistrate have neglected, or deny'd to doe it. And that they, who of late, so much blame Deposing, are the men that did it themselves.
Página 145 - ... of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model: or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be...
Página 105 - But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Página viii - Yet, be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even 10 To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Página 104 - I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
Página 172 - For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ ; and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
Página 138 - Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth ! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.