Treasures from the Prose Writings of John MiltonTicknor and Fields, 1866 - 486 pages |
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... authority . How should then the dim taper of this Emper- or's * age , that had such need of snuffing , extend any beam to our times , wherewith we might hope to be better lighted , than by those luminaries that God hath set up to shine ...
... authority . How should then the dim taper of this Emper- or's * age , that had such need of snuffing , extend any beam to our times , wherewith we might hope to be better lighted , than by those luminaries that God hath set up to shine ...
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... authority . What is all this , either here or there , to the tem- poral regiment of weal public , whether it be pop- ular , princely , or monarchical ? Where doth it entrench upon the temporal governor ? where does it come in his walk ...
... authority . What is all this , either here or there , to the tem- poral regiment of weal public , whether it be pop- ular , princely , or monarchical ? Where doth it entrench upon the temporal governor ? where does it come in his walk ...
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... authority , not in anything more divine than in the all - sufficiency it hath to fur- nish us , as with all other spiritual knowledge , so with this in particular , setting out to us a perfect man of God , accomplished to all the good ...
... authority , not in anything more divine than in the all - sufficiency it hath to fur- nish us , as with all other spiritual knowledge , so with this in particular , setting out to us a perfect man of God , accomplished to all the good ...
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... authority than any heathen writer hath to give us ; and , indeed , being a point of so high wis- dom and worth , how could it be but we should find it in that book within whose sacred context all wisdom is unfolded ? Moses , therefore ...
... authority than any heathen writer hath to give us ; and , indeed , being a point of so high wis- dom and worth , how could it be but we should find it in that book within whose sacred context all wisdom is unfolded ? Moses , therefore ...
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... authority enough might give it out to be so , as Minos , Lycurgus , Numa , because they wisely forethought that men would never quietly submit to such a discipline as had not more of God's hand in it than man's . Public preaching indeed ...
... authority enough might give it out to be so , as Minos , Lycurgus , Numa , because they wisely forethought that men would never quietly submit to such a discipline as had not more of God's hand in it than man's . Public preaching indeed ...
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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.