The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1848 - Essays |
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... 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 ...
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... 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 541 - Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
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 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 92 - ... 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...
Page 474 - ... to be revenged on him for speaking the truth, he would be forced to confess as he confessed, ' his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones ; I was weary with forbearing, and could not stay...
Page 115 - And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
Page 479 - ... 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 ; all these things with a solid and treatable smoothness to point out and describe...
Page 68 - It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say, of knowing good by evil.
Page 515 - Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences, contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned ; and avoid them. For they that are such, serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly ; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.