The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Hebert, and Sanderson, Volume 2Hilliard, Gray, 1832 |
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... continually watered with the daily dew of God's blessed spirit , that his in- fant virtues grew into such holy habits , as did make him grow daily into more and more favor , both with God and man ; which , with the RICHARD HOOKER . 21.
... continually watered with the daily dew of God's blessed spirit , that his in- fant virtues grew into such holy habits , as did make him grow daily into more and more favor , both with God and man ; which , with the RICHARD HOOKER . 21.
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... Holy Ghost , and even , like St. John Baptist , to be sanctified from his mother's womb , who did often bless the day in which she bare him . About this time of his age he fell into a dan- gerous sickness , which lasted two months ; all ...
... Holy Ghost , and even , like St. John Baptist , to be sanctified from his mother's womb , who did often bless the day in which she bare him . About this time of his age he fell into a dan- gerous sickness , which lasted two months ; all ...
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... holy writ , into most high and elegant verse . And for Cranmer , his other pupil , I shall refer my reader to the printed testimonies of our learned Mr. Camden , the Lord Tottenes , Fynes Morrison , and others . " This Cranmer , whose ...
... holy writ , into most high and elegant verse . And for Cranmer , his other pupil , I shall refer my reader to the printed testimonies of our learned Mr. Camden , the Lord Tottenes , Fynes Morrison , and others . " This Cranmer , whose ...
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... holy prophet saith , so " they took sweet counsel together , and walked in the house of God as friends . " which means they improved it to such a degree of amity as bordered upon heaven ; a friendship so sacred , that when it ended in ...
... holy prophet saith , so " they took sweet counsel together , and walked in the house of God as friends . " which means they improved it to such a degree of amity as bordered upon heaven ; a friendship so sacred , that when it ended in ...
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... holy prophet , " Woe is me that I am constrained to have my habitation in the tents of Kedar ! " 29 This choice of Mr. Hooker's ( if it were his choice ) may be wondered at . But let us consider that the Prophet Ezekiel says , " There ...
... holy prophet , " Woe is me that I am constrained to have my habitation in the tents of Kedar ! " 29 This choice of Mr. Hooker's ( if it were his choice ) may be wondered at . But let us consider that the Prophet Ezekiel says , " There ...
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Page 33 - ... not an open enemy, that hath done me this dishonour : for then I could have borne it.
Page 150 - Upon thine altar burnt ? Cannot thy love Heighten a spirit to sound out thy praise As well as any she ? Cannot thy Dove Outstrip their Cupid easily in flight ? Or, since thy...
Page 105 - ... of God for any other reason, but to live to finish his three remaining books of Polity ; and then, Lord, let thy servant depart in peace;" which was his usual expression.
Page 198 - The poor man blessed him for it, and he blessed the poor man : and was so like the good Samaritan, that he gave him money to refresh both himself and his horse, and told him that, " if he loved himself, he should be merciful to his beast.
Page 94 - And after these days Elisabeth his wife conceived; and she hid herself five months, saying, Thus hath the Lord done unto me in the days wherein he looked upon me, to take away my reproach among men.
Page 42 - But, notwithstanding this averseness, he was at last persuaded to accept of the Bishop's proposal ; and was, by patent for life, made Master of the Temple the 17th of March 1585, he being then in the thirty-fourth year of his age.
Page 35 - God's disfavor; for he was a virtuous man. I shall not yet give the like testimony of his wife, but leave the reader to judge by what follows. But to this house Mr. Hooker came so wet, so weary, and weather-beaten, that he was never known to express more passion than against a friend that dissuaded him from footing it to London, and for finding him no easier an horse, — supposing the horse trotted when he did not; — and at this time also, such a faintness and fear possessed him, that he would...
Page 33 - ... university, free from selfends, which the friendships of age usually are not. And in this sweet, this blessed, this spiritual amity, they went on for many years, and, as the holy Prophet saith, so " they took sweet counsel together, and walked in the house of God as friends.
Page 99 - I have been long preparing to leave it, and gathering comfort for the dreadful hour of making my account with God, which I now apprehend to be near: and though I have by his grace loved him in my youth, and feared him in mine age, and laboured to have a conscience void of offence to him, and to all men; yet if thou, O Lord! be extreme to mark what I have done amiss, who can abide it...
Page 139 - But alas ! this family did in the late rebellion surfer extremely in their estates ; and the heirs of that castle saw it laid level with that earth that was too good to bury those wretches that were the cause of it.