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... COMMON- WEALTH , and the Excellence thereof , compared with the Inconveniences and Dangers of re - admitting Kingship in this Nation . OBSERVATIONS ON THE ARTICLES OF PEACE , between James Earl of Ormond for King Charles the First on ...
... COMMON- WEALTH , and the Excellence thereof , compared with the Inconveniences and Dangers of re - admitting Kingship in this Nation . OBSERVATIONS ON THE ARTICLES OF PEACE , between James Earl of Ormond for King Charles the First on ...
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... common prayer . " " It has been fully made out , that many of the regicides were drawn into the grand rebellion by the direful imprecations of seditious preachers from the pulpit . " Dr. South relates that " he had it from the mouth of ...
... common prayer . " " It has been fully made out , that many of the regicides were drawn into the grand rebellion by the direful imprecations of seditious preachers from the pulpit . " Dr. South relates that " he had it from the mouth of ...
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... common adversary , fall first and heaviest upon their own heads ? * Neither by mild and tender dispositions be foolishly softened from their duty and perseverance with the unmasculine rhetoric of any puling priest or chaplain , sent as ...
... common adversary , fall first and heaviest upon their own heads ? * Neither by mild and tender dispositions be foolishly softened from their duty and perseverance with the unmasculine rhetoric of any puling priest or chaplain , sent as ...
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... common national law against mur- der , is now to be no less than Korah , Dathan , and Abiram . He who but erewhile in the pulpits was a cursed tyrant , an enemy to God and saints , laden with all the innocent blood spilt in three ...
... common national law against mur- der , is now to be no less than Korah , Dathan , and Abiram . He who but erewhile in the pulpits was a cursed tyrant , an enemy to God and saints , laden with all the innocent blood spilt in three ...
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... common league to bind each other from mutual injury , and jointly to defend themselves against any that gave disturbance or opposition to such agreement . Hence came cities , towns , and commonwealths . * And because no faith in all was ...
... common league to bind each other from mutual injury , and jointly to defend themselves against any that gave disturbance or opposition to such agreement . Hence came cities , towns , and commonwealths . * And because no faith in all was ...
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Page 524 - But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
Page 479 - ... to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune...
Page 457 - And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.
Page 89 - Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Page 540 - STAND fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath, made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Page 358 - And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee : for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
Page 92 - ... there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas, wherewith to present as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation; others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing...
Page 447 - I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
Page 479 - ... victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship. Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime ; in virtue amiable or grave ; whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that which is called fortune from without, or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within...