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... consider their champion , and reward the pains and suf- ferings he underwent in the defence of their cause and honour . With what care and faithfulness he discharged his office , we are all his witnesses ; what good rules and directions ...
... consider their champion , and reward the pains and suf- ferings he underwent in the defence of their cause and honour . With what care and faithfulness he discharged his office , we are all his witnesses ; what good rules and directions ...
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... consider what that thing is which we call years of discretion . The young man is passed his tutors , and arrived at the bondage of a caitiff spirit ; he is run from discipline , and is let loose to passion . The man by this time hath ...
... consider what that thing is which we call years of discretion . The young man is passed his tutors , and arrived at the bondage of a caitiff spirit ; he is run from discipline , and is let loose to passion . The man by this time hath ...
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... consider the patience with which he en- dured the scoffs and reproaches of his enemies : lead her to the cross , and let her view him in the agony of death , and hear his last prayer for his persecutors : Father , forgive them , for ...
... consider the patience with which he en- dured the scoffs and reproaches of his enemies : lead her to the cross , and let her view him in the agony of death , and hear his last prayer for his persecutors : Father , forgive them , for ...
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... Consider that anger is a professed enemy to counsel ; it is a direct storm , in which no man can be heard to speak or call from without : for if you counsel gently , you are despised ; if you urge it and be vehement , you provoke it ...
... Consider that anger is a professed enemy to counsel ; it is a direct storm , in which no man can be heard to speak or call from without : for if you counsel gently , you are despised ; if you urge it and be vehement , you provoke it ...
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... consider that this * Hooker's Anger is said to have been like a vial of clear water , which , when shook , beads at the top , but instantly , subsides , without any soil or sediment of uncharitableness . + Holy Living , chap . iv . sect ...
... consider that this * Hooker's Anger is said to have been like a vial of clear water , which , when shook , beads at the top , but instantly , subsides , without any soil or sediment of uncharitableness . + Holy Living , chap . iv . sect ...
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Page 325 - Two Voices are there ; one is of the sea, One of the mountains ; each a mighty Voice : In both from age to age thou didst rejoice, They were thy chosen music, Liberty...
Page 262 - By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 290 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of...
Page 45 - For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Page 277 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Page 281 - 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 327 - A honey tongue, a heart of gall Is fancy's Spring but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle and thy posies Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten, In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw and ivy buds, Thy coral clasps and amber studs, All these in me no means can move To come to thee and be thy love.
Page 90 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 16 - The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose : The toil-worn cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher through To meet their dad, wi' flichterin noise an
Page 97 - ... heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself; if the moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp, the clouds yield no rain, the earth be defeated of heavenly influence, the fruits of the earth pine away as children at the withered breasts of their mother no longer able to yield...