Treasures from the Prose Writings of John MiltonTicknor and Fields, 1866 - 486 pages |
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Page 10
... teach not , that to govern well , is to train up a nation in true wisdom and virtue , and that which springs from thence , magnanimity ( take heed of that ) , and that which is our beginning , regenera- tion , and happiest end ...
... teach not , that to govern well , is to train up a nation in true wisdom and virtue , and that which springs from thence , magnanimity ( take heed of that ) , and that which is our beginning , regenera- tion , and happiest end ...
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... teach men the Christian faith , to exhort all , to encourage the good , to admonish the bad , pri- vately the less offender , publicly the scandalous and stubborn ; to censure and separate , from the com- munion of Christ's flock , the ...
... teach men the Christian faith , to exhort all , to encourage the good , to admonish the bad , pri- vately the less offender , publicly the scandalous and stubborn ; to censure and separate , from the com- munion of Christ's flock , the ...
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... teach these times not suddenly to condemn all things that are sharply spoken or vehemently written as proceeding out of stomach , virulence , or ill - nature , but to consid- er rather , that , if the prelates have leave to say the ...
... teach these times not suddenly to condemn all things that are sharply spoken or vehemently written as proceeding out of stomach , virulence , or ill - nature , but to consid- er rather , that , if the prelates have leave to say the ...
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... teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue , through all the instances of example , with such delight to those especially of soft and delicious temper , who will not so much as look upon truth herself unless they see her ...
... teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue , through all the instances of example , with such delight to those especially of soft and delicious temper , who will not so much as look upon truth herself unless they see her ...
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... teaches us to be so far from a readiness to speak evil , as not to answer the re- viler in his language , though never so much pro- voked : yet in the detecting and convincing of any notorious enemy to truth and his country's peace ...
... teaches us to be so far from a readiness to speak evil , as not to answer the re- viler in his language , though never so much pro- voked : yet in the detecting and convincing of any notorious enemy to truth and his country's peace ...
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Page 431 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Page 92 - 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 triie virtue, which, being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Page 99 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Page 33 - His word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones; I was weary with forbearing, and could not stay
Page 460 - 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 444 - And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again ; as it is also written in the second Psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
Page 451 - Create in me a clean heart, 0 God ; and renew a right spirit within me.
Page 118 - ... there must be many schisms and many dissections made in the quarry and in the timber ere the house of God can be built. And when every stone is laid artfully together, it cannot be united into a continuity, it can but be contiguous in this world. Neither can every piece of the building be of one form; nay, rather the perfection consists in this, that out of many moderate varieties and brotherly dissimilitudes that are not vastly disproportional, arises the goodly and the graceful symmetry that...
Page 120 - ... is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy, and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay...
Page 429 - But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers...