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Page 121
... folio upon " Policy , and the use thereof in matters of religion . " 16 14 Lord Erskine's Speeches , vol . iii . p . 337 . 15 Hale , Orig . MS . 16 These MSS . were bequeathed by the judge to his widow . See the Will , post . They are ...
... folio upon " Policy , and the use thereof in matters of religion . " 16 14 Lord Erskine's Speeches , vol . iii . p . 337 . 15 Hale , Orig . MS . 16 These MSS . were bequeathed by the judge to his widow . See the Will , post . They are ...
Page 132
... folio ) which he had written , to prove the Being and Providence of God , the immortality of the soul , and life to come , the truth of Christianity , and of every book of the Scripture by itself , besides the common proofs of the whole ...
... folio ) which he had written , to prove the Being and Providence of God , the immortality of the soul , and life to come , the truth of Christianity , and of every book of the Scripture by itself , besides the common proofs of the whole ...
Page 214
... folio of Censori- nus de Die Natali he mentions as a golden book.3 Galen de Usu Partium , he refers to as a divine work ' . Lord Bacon he calls the " great Verulam ; " 5 the great inquisitor into nature . Noticing the tract , de Naturæ ...
... folio of Censori- nus de Die Natali he mentions as a golden book.3 Galen de Usu Partium , he refers to as a divine work ' . Lord Bacon he calls the " great Verulam ; " 5 the great inquisitor into nature . Noticing the tract , de Naturæ ...
Page 257
... folio volume , con- taining " The Confession and Reason of his Faith ; " " Matters Chronological ; " and , " A Dissertation on the Book of Job ; " a quarto volume on theo- logical subjects , commencing with remarks upon Phil . iii . 8 ...
... folio volume , con- taining " The Confession and Reason of his Faith ; " " Matters Chronological ; " and , " A Dissertation on the Book of Job ; " a quarto volume on theo- logical subjects , commencing with remarks upon Phil . iii . 8 ...
Page 259
... folio , with a long dedication to " Her Royal Highness the Princess ; " signed , " John Coren . " That gentleman says : " When this piece came first into my hand , from the library of a learned man , after his death , I laid it up ...
... folio , with a long dedication to " Her Royal Highness the Princess ; " signed , " John Coren . " That gentleman says : " When this piece came first into my hand , from the library of a learned man , after his death , I laid it up ...
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Page 308 - If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
Page xvii - And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever and ever...
Page 98 - Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years, eat, drink, and be merry.
Page 102 - ... to which the gentleman answered, that he never sold his venison, and that he had done nothing to him which he did not do to every judge that had gone that circuit...
Page 141 - Let him that will, ascend the tottering seat Of courtly grandeur, and become as great As are his mounting wishes : as for me, Let sweet repose and rest my portion be.
Page xvi - there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world.
Page 245 - Where the bright Seraphim in burning row Their loud uplifted angel-trumpets blow. And the Cherubic host in thousand quires Touch their immortal harps of golden wires. With those just spirits that wear victorious palms. Hymns devout and holy psalms Singing everlastingly: That we on earth with undiscording voice May rightly answer that melodious noise; As once we did.
Page xvi - Wherefore, that here we may briefly end, of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 160 - The last year of his being in London, he came always on Sundays (when he could go abroad) to the chapel of the Rolls, where I then preached : In my life I never saw so much gravity, tempered with that sweetness, and set off with so much vivacity, as appeared in his looks and behaviour, which disposed me to a veneration for him, which I never had for any with whom I was not acquainted.
Page 14 - God, endeavour in our several places and callings, the preservation of the reformed religion in the church of Scotland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, against our common enemies; the reformation of religion in the kingdoms of England and Ireland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, according to the Word of God, and the example of the best reformed churches...