The Milton Anthology: Selected from the Prose WritingsHenry Holt, 1876 - 486 pages |
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... authority . * How should then the dim taper of this Emper- or's age , that had such need of snuffing , extend any beam to our times , wherewith we might hope to be better lighted , than by those luminaries that God hath set up to shine ...
... authority . * How should then the dim taper of this Emper- or's age , that had such need of snuffing , extend any beam to our times , wherewith we might hope to be better lighted , than by those luminaries that God hath set up to shine ...
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... authority . What is all this , either here or there , to the tem- poral regiment of weal public , whether it be pop- ular , princely , or monarchical ? Where doth it entrench upon the temporal governor ? where does it come in his walk ...
... authority . What is all this , either here or there , to the tem- poral regiment of weal public , whether it be pop- ular , princely , or monarchical ? Where doth it entrench upon the temporal governor ? where does it come in his walk ...
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... authority , not in anything more divine than in the all - sufficiency it hath to fur- nish us , as with all other spiritual knowledge , so with this in particular , setting out to us a perfect man of God , accomplished to all the good ...
... authority , not in anything more divine than in the all - sufficiency it hath to fur- nish us , as with all other spiritual knowledge , so with this in particular , setting out to us a perfect man of God , accomplished to all the good ...
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... authority than any heathen writer hath to give us ; and , indeed , being a point of so high wis- dom and worth , how could it be but we should find it in that book within whose sacred context all wisdom is unfolded ? Moses , therefore ...
... authority than any heathen writer hath to give us ; and , indeed , being a point of so high wis- dom and worth , how could it be but we should find it in that book within whose sacred context all wisdom is unfolded ? Moses , therefore ...
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... authority enough might give it out to be so , as Minos , Lycurgus , Numa , because they wisely forethought that men would never quietly submit to such a discipline as had not more of God's hand in it than man's ... Public preaching ...
... authority enough might give it out to be so , as Minos , Lycurgus , Numa , because they wisely forethought that men would never quietly submit to such a discipline as had not more of God's hand in it than man's ... Public preaching ...
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Page 461 - Lord, according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue : whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises : that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Page 439 - 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 108 - It is true no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.
Page 455 - And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord : And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength : this is the first commandment.
Page 107 - 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 53 - I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Page 468 - 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 452 - For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee ? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son.
Page 50 - ... 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...
Page 119 - A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the Assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.