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... Hand , and the Irish Rebels and Papists on the other Hand : and on a Letter sent by Ormond to Colonel Jones , Governor of Dublin : and a Representation of the Scots Presbytery at Belfast in Ireland . To which the said Articles , Letter ...
... Hand , and the Irish Rebels and Papists on the other Hand : and on a Letter sent by Ormond to Colonel Jones , Governor of Dublin : and a Representation of the Scots Presbytery at Belfast in Ireland . To which the said Articles , Letter ...
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... hand of their brethren , on a sudden and in a new garb of allegiance , which their doings have long since cancelled , they plead for him , pity him , extol him , protest against those that talk of bringing him to the trial of justice ...
... hand of their brethren , on a sudden and in a new garb of allegiance , which their doings have long since cancelled , they plead for him , pity him , extol him , protest against those that talk of bringing him to the trial of justice ...
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... hands , perverted them at length to injustice and partiality . Then did they , who now by trial had found the danger and inconveniencies of com- mitting arbitrary power to any , invent laws , either framed or consented to by all , that ...
... hands , perverted them at length to injustice and partiality . Then did they , who now by trial had found the danger and inconveniencies of com- mitting arbitrary power to any , invent laws , either framed or consented to by all , that ...
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... hand abstain from Agag ; a foreign enemy no doubt ; but mark the reason : " As thy sword has made women childless ; " a cause that by the sentence of law itself nullifies all relations . And as the law is between brother and brother ...
... hand abstain from Agag ; a foreign enemy no doubt ; but mark the reason : " As thy sword has made women childless ; " a cause that by the sentence of law itself nullifies all relations . And as the law is between brother and brother ...
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... hand , he may then , but not till then , presume on the same privilege . We may pass , therefore , hence to Christian times . And first , our Saviour himself , how much he favoured tyrants , and how much intended they should be found or ...
... hand , he may then , but not till then , presume on the same privilege . We may pass , therefore , hence to Christian times . And first , our Saviour himself , how much he favoured tyrants , and how much intended they should be found or ...
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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...