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... themselves are far more ancient than they ( being they are alleged by those Writers , not as excogi- tated by them , but as credited and recepted before ) seem to be like a thin rarefied air , which from the Traditions of more ancient ...
... themselves are far more ancient than they ( being they are alleged by those Writers , not as excogi- tated by them , but as credited and recepted before ) seem to be like a thin rarefied air , which from the Traditions of more ancient ...
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... themselves ? One of the Fathers , in great Severity , called Poesy , Vinum Dæmonum ; because it filleth the Imagination ; and yet it is but with the Shadow of a Lie . But it is not the Lie , that paffeth through the Mind , but the Lie ...
... themselves ? One of the Fathers , in great Severity , called Poesy , Vinum Dæmonum ; because it filleth the Imagination ; and yet it is but with the Shadow of a Lie . But it is not the Lie , that paffeth through the Mind , but the Lie ...
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... themselves , which cannot but move Derifion in Worldlings and depraved Politicians , who are apt to contemn Holy Things . As for the Fruit towards those that are within , it is Peace ; which containeth infinite Bleffings : It ...
... themselves , which cannot but move Derifion in Worldlings and depraved Politicians , who are apt to contemn Holy Things . As for the Fruit towards those that are within , it is Peace ; which containeth infinite Bleffings : It ...
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... themselves would never agree . And if it come so to pass , in that distance of Judge- ment , which is between Man and Man ; Shall we not think , that God above , that knows the Heart , doth not difcern that frail Men , in some of their ...
... themselves would never agree . And if it come so to pass , in that distance of Judge- ment , which is between Man and Man ; Shall we not think , that God above , that knows the Heart , doth not difcern that frail Men , in some of their ...
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... confessed ; That thofe , which held and perfuaded , preffure of Confciences , were commonly in- terested therein themselves , for their own ends . IV . Of Revenge . EVENGE is a kind of 12 ESSAYS . Cœlum, or Beginnings.
... confessed ; That thofe , which held and perfuaded , preffure of Confciences , were commonly in- terested therein themselves , for their own ends . IV . Of Revenge . EVENGE is a kind of 12 ESSAYS . Cœlum, or Beginnings.
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