The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2H.G. Bohn, 1848 - Essays |
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... God upon evil - doers without exception , be of God ; then that power , whether ordinary , or if that fail , ex- traordinary , so executing that intent of God , is lawful , and not to be resisted . But to unfold more at large this whole ...
... God upon evil - doers without exception , be of God ; then that power , whether ordinary , or if that fail , ex- traordinary , so executing that intent of God , is lawful , and not to be resisted . But to unfold more at large this whole ...
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... God , ( as how many of them do not , ) we hold then our lives and estates by the tenure of his mere grace and mercy , as from a god , not a mortal magistrate ; a position that none but court - parasites or men besotted would maintain ...
... God , ( as how many of them do not , ) we hold then our lives and estates by the tenure of his mere grace and mercy , as from a god , not a mortal magistrate ; a position that none but court - parasites or men besotted would maintain ...
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... God only , or to so few as had not the will or power to question him , or that the sin against God was greater beyond compare than against Uriah . Whatever his meaning were , any wise man will see , that the pathetical words of a psalm ...
... God only , or to so few as had not the will or power to question him , or that the sin against God was greater beyond compare than against Uriah . Whatever his meaning were , any wise man will see , that the pathetical words of a psalm ...
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... God , not of them ; -for they knew no such matter , unless conditionally , but gave him politic counsel , as in a civil transaction . Therefore kingdom and magistracy , whether supreme or subordinate , is called " a human ordinance ...
... God , not of them ; -for they knew no such matter , unless conditionally , but gave him politic counsel , as in a civil transaction . Therefore kingdom and magistracy , whether supreme or subordinate , is called " a human ordinance ...
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... God , yet cannot shew the time when God ever set on the throne them or their forefathers , but only when the people chose them ; why by the same reason , since God ascribes as oft to himself the casting down of princes from the throne ...
... God , yet cannot shew the time when God ever set on the throne them or their forefathers , but only when the people chose them ; why by the same reason , since God ascribes as oft to himself the casting down of princes from the throne ...
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