The works of John Donne. With a memoir by H. Alford, Volume 51839 |
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... doth truly take too much power , but because they would be under none ; it is an ambition , to have all government in their own hands , and to be absolute emperors of themselves , that makes them refractory : but , if they will pretend ...
... doth truly take too much power , but because they would be under none ; it is an ambition , to have all government in their own hands , and to be absolute emperors of themselves , that makes them refractory : but , if they will pretend ...
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... doth it bring , how fully doth it deliver heaven itself to us in this life ? And then we hear the apostle say , We see Jesus , for the suffering of death , crowned with honour and glory " : there is half heaven got by death , glory ...
... doth it bring , how fully doth it deliver heaven itself to us in this life ? And then we hear the apostle say , We see Jesus , for the suffering of death , crowned with honour and glory " : there is half heaven got by death , glory ...
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... doth now but press and squeeze us as so many sponges , filled one with one , another with another cause of tears . Tears that can have no other bank to bound them , but the declared and mani- fested will of God : for , till our tears ...
... doth now but press and squeeze us as so many sponges , filled one with one , another with another cause of tears . Tears that can have no other bank to bound them , but the declared and mani- fested will of God : for , till our tears ...
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... doth not the less belong to the whole church , for that , no more than his master's epistles do though they be directed to particulars . It is also a singularity in him to write upon that reason , because divers have written . In human ...
... doth not the less belong to the whole church , for that , no more than his master's epistles do though they be directed to particulars . It is also a singularity in him to write upon that reason , because divers have written . In human ...
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... doth not raise his children to honour , and great estates , and then leave them , and expose them to be subjects , and exercises of the malice Matt . xiv . 27 . of others , nor he doth not make them mighty SER . CXVI . ] 31 PREACHED TO ...
... doth not raise his children to honour , and great estates , and then leave them , and expose them to be subjects , and exercises of the malice Matt . xiv . 27 . of others , nor he doth not make them mighty SER . CXVI . ] 31 PREACHED TO ...
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Page 276 - LET a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
Page 194 - Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
Page 610 - Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen ; and they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
Page 213 - Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications : and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
Page 150 - Where is then the blessedness ye spake of ? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
Page 1 - Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart...
Page 450 - Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Page 167 - Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord ? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord.
Page 152 - And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
Page 406 - For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. 12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.