A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2Bowles and Dearborn, 1826 |
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... Charity be- lieveth all things . ' What is to be said to the License which is vainly feared will grow hereby . What to those who never have done prescribing Patience in this Case . The Papist most severe against Divorce , yet most easy ...
... Charity be- lieveth all things . ' What is to be said to the License which is vainly feared will grow hereby . What to those who never have done prescribing Patience in this Case . The Papist most severe against Divorce , yet most easy ...
Page 61
... charity might win all these diligences to join , and unite into one general and brotherly search after truth , could we but forego this prelatical tradition of crowding free consciences and christian liberties into canons and precepts ...
... charity might win all these diligences to join , and unite into one general and brotherly search after truth , could we but forego this prelatical tradition of crowding free consciences and christian liberties into canons and precepts ...
Page 65
... charity , that next to his last testament , who bequeathed love and peace to his disciples , I cannot call to mind where I have read or heard words more mild and peaceful . He there exhorts us to hear with patience and humility those ...
... charity , that next to his last testament , who bequeathed love and peace to his disciples , I cannot call to mind where I have read or heard words more mild and peaceful . He there exhorts us to hear with patience and humility those ...
Page 67
... charity , and were it not the chief strong hold of our hypocrisy to be ever judging one another ! I fear yet this iron yoke of outward conformity hath left a slavish print upon our necks ; the ghost of a linen decency yet haunts us . We ...
... charity , and were it not the chief strong hold of our hypocrisy to be ever judging one another ! I fear yet this iron yoke of outward conformity hath left a slavish print upon our necks ; the ghost of a linen decency yet haunts us . We ...
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... charity of patient instruction , to supple the least bruise of conscience , to edify the meanest Christian , who desires to walk in the spirit , and not in the letter of human trust , for all the nun- ber of voices that can be there ...
... charity of patient instruction , to supple the least bruise of conscience , to edify the meanest Christian , who desires to walk in the spirit , and not in the letter of human trust , for all the nun- ber of voices that can be there ...
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Page 34 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Page 69 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Page 315 - But ye shall not be so : but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger ; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
Page 3 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Page 289 - If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Page vi - 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.
Page 303 - Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
Page 171 - It being thus manifest that the power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else but what is only derivative, transferred, and committed to them in trust from the People to the common good of them all, in whom the power yet remains fundamentally and cannot be taken from them without a violation of their natural birthright...
Page 266 - 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.