Treasures from the Prose Writings of John MiltonTicknor and Fields, 1866 - 486 pages |
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... appear soonest to be so , by being good and agree- able to the true welfare of every Christian ; and that which can be justly proved hurtful and offen- sive to every true Christian will be evinced to be alike hurtful to monarchy : for ...
... appear soonest to be so , by being good and agree- able to the true welfare of every Christian ; and that which can be justly proved hurtful and offen- sive to every true Christian will be evinced to be alike hurtful to monarchy : for ...
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... appear , when we shall know them not only to have saved us from greatest miseries past , but to have reserved us for greatest hap- piness to come ! Hitherto thou hast but freed us , and that not fully , from the unjust and tyrannous ...
... appear , when we shall know them not only to have saved us from greatest miseries past , but to have reserved us for greatest hap- piness to come ! Hitherto thou hast but freed us , and that not fully , from the unjust and tyrannous ...
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... alone , but in the very critical art of composition , may be easily made appear over all the kinds of lyric poesy to be incomparable . These abilities , wheresoever they be found , are the 3 D URGED AGAINST PRELATY . 49.
... alone , but in the very critical art of composition , may be easily made appear over all the kinds of lyric poesy to be incomparable . These abilities , wheresoever they be found , are the 3 D URGED AGAINST PRELATY . 49.
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... appear now rugged and difficult , though they be indeed easy and pleasant , they will then appear to all men both easy and 50 REASON OF CHURCH GOVERNMENT.
... appear now rugged and difficult , though they be indeed easy and pleasant , they will then appear to all men both easy and 50 REASON OF CHURCH GOVERNMENT.
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John Milton Fayette Hurd. they will then appear to all men both easy and pleasant , though they were rugged and difficult indeed . And what a benefit this would be to our youth and gentry , may be soon guessed by what we know of the ...
John Milton Fayette Hurd. they will then appear to all men both easy and pleasant , though they were rugged and difficult indeed . And what a benefit this would be to our youth and gentry , may be soon guessed by what we know of the ...
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Page 124 - Now once again by all concurrence of signs, and by the general instinct of holy and devout men, as they daily and solemnly express their thoughts, God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in his church, even to the reforming of reformation itself; what does he then but reveal himself to his servants, and as his mani>er is, first to his Englishmen...
Page 100 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of triie virtue, which, being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Page 112 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Page 452 - ... who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
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 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 107 - ... the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Page 452 - And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again ; as it is also written in the second Psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
Page 113 - Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely, and with less danger, scout into the regions of sin and falsity than by reading all manner of tractates and hearing all manner of reason? And this is the benefit which may be had of books promiscuously read.