Explanatory Notes and Remarks on Milton's Paradise Lost |
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Page xlii
... as He , to Worship God A- right , is feen by a Fine Paffage in One of the . Laft of his Works [ of True Relig . & c . fol . 808 , ] where he fays , It is a Human Frailty to Err , and and no Man is Infallible here on Earth . but xlii.
... as He , to Worship God A- right , is feen by a Fine Paffage in One of the . Laft of his Works [ of True Relig . & c . fol . 808 , ] where he fays , It is a Human Frailty to Err , and and no Man is Infallible here on Earth . but xlii.
Page li
... Human Error bath led us through the Midft of our Beft Intentions , and to Support our In- cident Extremities by the Authentick Precept of Soveraign Charity , whofe Grand Commiffion is to Do and to Difpofe over all the Ordinances of God ...
... Human Error bath led us through the Midft of our Beft Intentions , and to Support our In- cident Extremities by the Authentick Precept of Soveraign Charity , whofe Grand Commiffion is to Do and to Difpofe over all the Ordinances of God ...
Page liii
... Humanity , much less with Charity , I would ever Anfwer by putting them in Remembrance of a Command above All Commands , which they feem to have forgot , and Who spake it ; in Com- parifon whereof This which they fo exalt is but a Petty ...
... Humanity , much less with Charity , I would ever Anfwer by putting them in Remembrance of a Command above All Commands , which they feem to have forgot , and Who spake it ; in Com- parifon whereof This which they fo exalt is but a Petty ...
Page lxvii
... Humanity Can , and Where That Fails , has gone Farther than Any Other Humane Intellect Ever Attain'd to . the Man is Now before you , his Perfon , and his Mind ; if the Latter is not without Blemishes , the Cafe is very Different from d ...
... Humanity Can , and Where That Fails , has gone Farther than Any Other Humane Intellect Ever Attain'd to . the Man is Now before you , his Perfon , and his Mind ; if the Latter is not without Blemishes , the Cafe is very Different from d ...
Page cx
... Human Kind of which he Treats . And it came at a Time fuch as He Promis'd it.With fuch Abstracted Sublimities as Thefe it might be worth your Liftning , Readers , as I may One day hope to have Ye in a Still time , when there shall be no ...
... Human Kind of which he Treats . And it came at a Time fuch as He Promis'd it.With fuch Abstracted Sublimities as Thefe it might be worth your Liftning , Readers , as I may One day hope to have Ye in a Still time , when there shall be no ...
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Page 514 - And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night...
Page cvii - 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 528 - Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned...
Page cv - ... 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 513 - And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
Page 529 - Finally brethren, farewell : be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace ; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
Page cvii - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar...
Page 232 - This is dispensed ; and what surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Page xxi - But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal.
Page cxxii - 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.