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... , it is not wonderful that he should have been charged with employing " coarse and intemperate , " " rude and insulting language . " Let the reader how- ever recollect the period at which his treatises were written vi PREFACE .
... , it is not wonderful that he should have been charged with employing " coarse and intemperate , " " rude and insulting language . " Let the reader how- ever recollect the period at which his treatises were written vi PREFACE .
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... Charged with printing scandalous books . - Persecu- ting spirit of Presbyterian Assembly . - Eloquent description of the X Liberty of the Press . He is married . - Left by his wife . - Publishes four Tracts on Divorce . - They are ...
... Charged with printing scandalous books . - Persecu- ting spirit of Presbyterian Assembly . - Eloquent description of the X Liberty of the Press . He is married . - Left by his wife . - Publishes four Tracts on Divorce . - They are ...
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... charge as a matter of re- proach ! One amuses oneself in thinking , how many there might have probably been of these " jolly , plump , well - fed city dogs , " whose " master fed them well , and brought the food himself , only on ...
... charge as a matter of re- proach ! One amuses oneself in thinking , how many there might have probably been of these " jolly , plump , well - fed city dogs , " whose " master fed them well , and brought the food himself , only on ...
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... charge , thereby to defame him with the people . Cran- mer , one of king Henry's executors , and the other Bish- ops did , to gratify the ambition of a traytor , consent to exclude from the succession , not only MARY , the Papist , but ...
... charge , thereby to defame him with the people . Cran- mer , one of king Henry's executors , and the other Bish- ops did , to gratify the ambition of a traytor , consent to exclude from the succession , not only MARY , the Papist , but ...
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... charge of lewdness and sensual- ity from his reverend accuser ! “ These means , together with a certain niceness of nature , an honest haughtiness and self - esteem , either of what I was or what I might be , ( which let envy call pride ...
... charge of lewdness and sensual- ity from his reverend accuser ! “ These means , together with a certain niceness of nature , an honest haughtiness and self - esteem , either of what I was or what I might be , ( which let envy call pride ...
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Page 130 - CYRIAC, this three years' day, these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman.
Page 80 - And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Page 227 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note: thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of...
Page 271 - God's Word, or of the Sacraments, the which thing the Injunctions also lately set forth by Elizabeth our Queen do most plainly testify; but that only prerogative, which we see to have been given always to all godly Princes in holy Scriptures by God himself; that is, that they should rule all estates and degrees committed to their charge by God, whether they be Ecclesiastical or Temporal, and restrain with the civil sword the stubborn and evil-doers.
Page 227 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...
Page 231 - Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms ; And for the testimony of truth hast borne Universal reproach, far worse to bear Than- violence ; for this was all thy care, To stand approved in sight of God, though worlds Judged thee perverse...
Page 270 - It is not lawful for any man to take upon him the office of public preaching, or ministering the Sacraments in the Congregation, before he be lawfully called, and sent to execute the same. And those we ought to judge lawfully called and sent, which be chosen and called to this work by men who have public authority given unto them in the Congregation, to call and send Ministers into the Lord's vineyard.
Page 225 - OF Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth Rose out of Chaos...
Page 140 - Old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was veiled ; yet to my fancied sight Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined So clear as in no face with more delight. But, oh ! as to embrace me she inclined, I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.
Page 61 - There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.