The Prose Works of John MiltonW. Ball, 1838 - 963 pages |
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Page xi
... proved hurtful and offensive to every true Christian , will be evinced to be alike hurtful to monarchy : for God forbid ... prove , that épiscopacy , with that authority which it challenges in England , is not only not agreeable , but ...
... proved hurtful and offensive to every true Christian , will be evinced to be alike hurtful to monarchy : for God forbid ... prove , that épiscopacy , with that authority which it challenges in England , is not only not agreeable , but ...
Page xix
... prove , first , That other reasons of divorce besides adultery were , by the law of Moses , and are yet to be , allowed by the christian magistrate , as a piece of justice , and that the words of Christ are not hereby contraried : next ...
... prove , first , That other reasons of divorce besides adultery were , by the law of Moses , and are yet to be , allowed by the christian magistrate , as a piece of justice , and that the words of Christ are not hereby contraried : next ...
Page xxii
... prove that they are more pleased with " public advice " than other statists with " pub- lic flattery , " — " that men will then see the difference between the magnanimity of a trien- nial parliament , and that jealous haughtiness of ...
... prove that they are more pleased with " public advice " than other statists with " pub- lic flattery , " — " that men will then see the difference between the magnanimity of a trien- nial parliament , and that jealous haughtiness of ...
Page xxiv
... prove , that turning to tyranny they may be as lawfully deposed and punished , as they were at first elected : this I shall do by authorities and reasons , not learnt in corners among schisms and heresies , as our doubling divines are ...
... prove , that turning to tyranny they may be as lawfully deposed and punished , as they were at first elected : this I shall do by authorities and reasons , not learnt in corners among schisms and heresies , as our doubling divines are ...
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... prove herself a retainer to Constantine , and wear his badge . More tolerable it were for the church of God , that all these names were utterly abolished like the brazen serpent , than that men's fond opinion should thus idolize them ...
... prove herself a retainer to Constantine , and wear his badge . More tolerable it were for the church of God , that all these names were utterly abolished like the brazen serpent , than that men's fond opinion should thus idolize them ...
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Page 108 - and unbreathcd, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be ran for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather;
Page xxxv - Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea, Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free : So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Page 192 - It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement." 32. " But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife,
Page 44 - go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the
Page 117 - wars of truth. For who knows not that truth is strong, next to the Almighty; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious, those are the shifts and the defences that errour uses against her power: give her but room, and do not bind her
Page i - ;"—his devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, " who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases,
Page xxiv - 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 denied to do
Page 108 - evil. As therefore the state of man now is; what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil ? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet
Page 117 - all their equipage, drawn forth his reasons as it were a battle ranged, scattered and defeated all objections in his way, calls out his adversary into the plain, offers him the advantage of wind and sun, if he please, only that he may try the matter by dint of argument ; for his opponents then to
Page 31 - This charge I commit to thee, son Timothy : according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare." Which is plain enough thus expounded : This charge I commit to thee, wherein I now go about to instruct thee how thou shall set up