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Page 91 - Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
Page 87 - To keep my hands from picking and stealing ; and my tongue from evil speaking, lying, and slandering; To keep my body in temperance, soberness, and chastity ; Not to covet nor desire other men's goods : but to learn and labour truly to get mine own living, and to do my duty in that state of life, unto which it shall please God to call me.
Page 74 - Virgin, of her substance , so that two whole and perfect natures, that is to say, the godhead and manhood, were joined together in one person, never to be divided, whereof is one Christ, very God, and very Man...
Page 74 - THE Son, which is the Word of the Father, begotten from everlasting of the Father, the very and eternal God, of one substance with the Father, took man's nature in the womb of the Blessed Virgin, of her substance...
Page 86 - My duty towards my Neighbour is to love him as myself, and to do to all men as I would they should do unto me...
Page 213 - He was much for liberty of conscience ; and being disgusted with the dry systematical way of those times, he studied to raise those who conversed with him to a nobler set of thoughts, and to consider religion as a seed of a deiform nature (to use one of his own phrases). In order to this, he set young students much on reading the ancient philosophers, chiefly Plato, Tully, and Plotin, and on considering the Christian religion as a doctrine sent from God, both to elevate and sweeten human nature...
Page 214 - Afterwards he married Cromwell's sister, but made no other use of that alliance but to do good offices and to cover the university from the sourness of Owen and Goodwin. At Cambridge he joined with those who studied to propagate better thoughts, to take men off from being in parties or from narrow notions, from superstitious conceits and a fierceness about opinions.
Page 214 - for the maintaining of students of choice abilities at the university, and principally in order 30 to the ministry
Page 214 - He was also a great observer and a promoter of experimental philosophy, which was then a new thing, and much looked after. He was naturally ambitious, but was the wisest Clergy-man I ever knew. He was a lover of mankind, and had a delight in doing good.
Page 221 - Ye fields of Cambridge, our dear Cambridge, say, Have ye not seen us walking every day ? Was there a tree about which did not know The love betwixt us two...