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Page 69
This was the plea of judaism and idolatry against Christ and his apostles , of
papacy against reformation ; and perhaps to the frailty of flesh and blood in a
man destitute of better enlightening may for some while be pardonable : for what
has ...
This was the plea of judaism and idolatry against Christ and his apostles , of
papacy against reformation ; and perhaps to the frailty of flesh and blood in a
man destitute of better enlightening may for some while be pardonable : for what
has ...
Page 70
How else could they have been able to have received the sudden assault of his
reforming Spirit , warring against human prin . ciples , and carnal sense , the
pride of flesh , that still cried . up antiquity , custom , canons , councils , and laws ;
and ...
How else could they have been able to have received the sudden assault of his
reforming Spirit , warring against human prin . ciples , and carnal sense , the
pride of flesh , that still cried . up antiquity , custom , canons , councils , and laws ;
and ...
Page 72
... days with many revelations above all the foregoing ages , since thou tookest
the flesh ; so thou canst vouchsafe to us ( though unworthy ) as large a portion of
thy Spirit as thou pleasest : for who shall prejudice thy all - governing will ?
seeing ...
... days with many revelations above all the foregoing ages , since thou tookest
the flesh ; so thou canst vouchsafe to us ( though unworthy ) as large a portion of
thy Spirit as thou pleasest : for who shall prejudice thy all - governing will ?
seeing ...
Page 84
... lustiness of their avarice , and turn them to their malting kilns ; rather let them
take heed what lessons they instil into that lump of flesh which they are the cause
of : lest , thinking to offer him as a present to God , they dish him out for the devil .
... lustiness of their avarice , and turn them to their malting kilns ; rather let them
take heed what lessons they instil into that lump of flesh which they are the cause
of : lest , thinking to offer him as a present to God , they dish him out for the devil .
Page 136
Yet this man , beyond a stoic apathy sees truth as in a rapture , and cleaves to it ;
not as through the dim glass of his affections , which , in this frail mansion of flesh
, are ever unequally tempered , pushing forward to error , and keeping back ...
Yet this man , beyond a stoic apathy sees truth as in a rapture , and cleaves to it ;
not as through the dim glass of his affections , which , in this frail mansion of flesh
, are ever unequally tempered , pushing forward to error , and keeping back ...
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