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... hope for the cheerful dawn , never more hear the bird of morning sing . Be moved with pity at the afflicted state of this our shaken monarchy , that now lies labouring under her throes , and struggling against the grudges of more ...
... hope for the cheerful dawn , never more hear the bird of morning sing . Be moved with pity at the afflicted state of this our shaken monarchy , that now lies labouring under her throes , and struggling against the grudges of more ...
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... hope to merit heaven , for the building of churches , cloysters , and convents ; the black revenues of purgatory , the price of abused and murdered souls , the damned simony of Trentals , and the hire of indulgencies to commit mortal ...
... hope to merit heaven , for the building of churches , cloysters , and convents ; the black revenues of purgatory , the price of abused and murdered souls , the damned simony of Trentals , and the hire of indulgencies to commit mortal ...
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... hope , that those worthies who were then breathing in her air , should be her leaders to such a deliverance as shall never be forgotten by any revolution of time that this world hath to finish . " He first proves that the ancient ...
... hope , that those worthies who were then breathing in her air , should be her leaders to such a deliverance as shall never be forgotten by any revolution of time that this world hath to finish . " He first proves that the ancient ...
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... hope to find out all your tricks , Your plots and packing , worse than those of Trent ; That so the parliament May with their wholesome and preventive shears , Clip your phylacteries , though balk your ears , -and succour our just fears ...
... hope to find out all your tricks , Your plots and packing , worse than those of Trent ; That so the parliament May with their wholesome and preventive shears , Clip your phylacteries , though balk your ears , -and succour our just fears ...
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... that he intended not , that the judgment of Divines , if it be so various and inconstant to itself , is not considerable , or to be esteemed at all . Ere which be yielded , as I hope it never will , these 106 LIFE OF MILTON .
... that he intended not , that the judgment of Divines , if it be so various and inconstant to itself , is not considerable , or to be esteemed at all . Ere which be yielded , as I hope it never will , these 106 LIFE OF MILTON .
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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.