Treasures from the Prose Writings of John MiltonTicknor and Fields, 1866 - 486 pages |
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... desire , that when they have brought us back to popish blindness , we might commit to their dispose the whole managing of our salvation ; for they think it was never fair world with them since that time . I AM not of opinion to think ...
... desire , that when they have brought us back to popish blindness , we might commit to their dispose the whole managing of our salvation ; for they think it was never fair world with them since that time . I AM not of opinion to think ...
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... desires ever thirsting after worldly employments , instead of diligent and fer- vent study in the Bible , they covet to be expert in canons and decretals , which may enable them to judge and interpose in temporal causes , how- ever ...
... desires ever thirsting after worldly employments , instead of diligent and fer- vent study in the Bible , they covet to be expert in canons and decretals , which may enable them to judge and interpose in temporal causes , how- ever ...
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... desires of men in fleshly doctrines , they stir them up to persecute with hatred and con- tempt all those that seek to bear themselves up- rightly in this their spiritual factory : which they foreseeing , though they cannot but testify ...
... desires of men in fleshly doctrines , they stir them up to persecute with hatred and con- tempt all those that seek to bear themselves up- rightly in this their spiritual factory : which they foreseeing , though they cannot but testify ...
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... desires , she cannot shift it , but must put on such colors and attire as those pathet- ic handmaids of the soul please to lead her in to their queen and if she find so much favor with them , they let her pass in her own likeness ; if ...
... desires , she cannot shift it , but must put on such colors and attire as those pathet- ic handmaids of the soul please to lead her in to their queen and if she find so much favor with them , they let her pass in her own likeness ; if ...
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... desires , grows up to a noble strength and perfec- tion with those his illustrious and sunny locks , the laws , waving and curling about his godlike shoul- ders . And while he keeps them about him undi- minished and unshorn , he may ...
... desires , grows up to a noble strength and perfec- tion with those his illustrious and sunny locks , the laws , waving and curling about his godlike shoul- ders . And while he keeps them about him undi- minished and unshorn , he may ...
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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.