The prose works of John Milton, with prelim. remarks and notes by J.A. St. John, Volume 2 |
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Page 47
... ourselves , —where constitutionally " the king can do no wrong , " - could by no possibility , any more than my own remarks on this or upon the other Treatises , have any application to the existing state of things . - For this reason ...
... ourselves , —where constitutionally " the king can do no wrong , " - could by no possibility , any more than my own remarks on this or upon the other Treatises , have any application to the existing state of things . - For this reason ...
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... ourselves to temp- tations without necessity , and next to that , not employ our time in vain things . To both these objections one answer will serve , out of the grounds already laid , that to all men such books are not temptations ...
... ourselves to temp- tations without necessity , and next to that , not employ our time in vain things . To both these objections one answer will serve , out of the grounds already laid , that to all men such books are not temptations ...
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... ourselves es- teem not of that obedience , or love , or gift , which is of force ; God therefore left him free , set before him a pro- voking object ever almost in his eyes ; herein consisted his merit , herein the right of his reward ...
... ourselves es- teem not of that obedience , or love , or gift , which is of force ; God therefore left him free , set before him a pro- voking object ever almost in his eyes ; herein consisted his merit , herein the right of his reward ...
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... ourselves , and suspicious of all men , as to fear each book , and the shaking of each leaf , before we know what the contents are ; if some who but of late were little better than silenced from preaching , shall come now to si- lence ...
... ourselves , and suspicious of all men , as to fear each book , and the shaking of each leaf , before we know what the contents are ; if some who but of late were little better than silenced from preaching , shall come now to si- lence ...
Page 88
... ourselves condemn not our own weak and frivolous teaching , and the people for an untaught and irreligious gadding rout ; what can be more fair , than when a man judicious , learned , and of a conscience , for aught we know , as good as ...
... ourselves condemn not our own weak and frivolous teaching , and the people for an untaught and irreligious gadding rout ; what can be more fair , than when a man judicious , learned , and of a conscience , for aught we know , as good as ...
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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...