Milton and Jakob Boehme: A Study of German Mysticism in Seventeenth-century England |
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... Dury , and Comenius . " " 2 That these various societies had deeper motives than those generally ascribed to them is certain . The Italian academies , after the pattern of which the " Order of the Palm was founded , must have been , to ...
... Dury , and Comenius . " " 2 That these various societies had deeper motives than those generally ascribed to them is certain . The Italian academies , after the pattern of which the " Order of the Palm was founded , must have been , to ...
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... Dury . Two of his books deserve a high place among spiritual works : Holy Dis- coveries , London , 1640 , and Sparkles of Glory or some Beams of the Morning Star , London , 1647 . William Dell's program of church reform was expressed in ...
... Dury . Two of his books deserve a high place among spiritual works : Holy Dis- coveries , London , 1640 , and Sparkles of Glory or some Beams of the Morning Star , London , 1647 . William Dell's program of church reform was expressed in ...
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... Dury , likewise a member of the " invisible college , " a friend of Milton , and also one of Hartlib's early friends . The ideals and plans of the " college " and its close rela- tion to similar societies on the continent - a relation ...
... Dury , likewise a member of the " invisible college , " a friend of Milton , and also one of Hartlib's early friends . The ideals and plans of the " college " and its close rela- tion to similar societies on the continent - a relation ...
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... Dury in the interest of a union of all Protestant churches is not quite certain.1 Assuredly he was deeply interested in the project from 1630 on , when Dury came to London . From Dury's " Platform of the Journeys that must be undertaken ...
... Dury in the interest of a union of all Protestant churches is not quite certain.1 Assuredly he was deeply interested in the project from 1630 on , when Dury came to London . From Dury's " Platform of the Journeys that must be undertaken ...
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... Dury carried out his plan of learning about German sects , he must , in his many years spent in Germany and Holland , have come across the Behmenists just as well as he came across the Weigelians and the Familists . Judging by the ...
... Dury carried out his plan of learning about German sects , he must , in his many years spent in Germany and Holland , have come across the Behmenists just as well as he came across the Weigelians and the Familists . Judging by the ...
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Page 142 - And by decision more embroils the fray By which he reigns : next him high arbiter Chance governs all. Into this wild abyss, The womb of nature, and perhaps her grave, Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire, But all these in their pregnant causes mixed Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight, Unless the almighty Maker them ordain His dark materials to create more worlds...
Page 142 - Boundless the deep, because I am who fill Infinitude, nor vacuous the space. Though I uncircumscribed myself retire, And put not forth my goodness, which is free To act or not, Necessity and Chance Approach not me, and what I will is Fate.
Page 126 - Then to advise how war may best, upheld, Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage; besides, to know Both spiritual power and civil, what each means, What severs each, thou hast learned, which few have done. The bounds of either sword to thee we owe : Therefore on thy firm hand Religion leans In peace, and reckons thee her eldest son.
Page 124 - Many there be that complain of Divine Providence for suffering Adam to transgress. Foolish tongues! When God gave him reason, he gave him freedom to choose ; for reason is but choosing.
Page 130 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by 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 116 - ... that by labour and intense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 53 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page 140 - Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be...
Page 116 - I began thus far to assent both to them and divers of my friends here at home ; and not less to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 139 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.