Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, Volume 1J. Miller, 1809 |
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... hath left him ine- morable to posterity , but only this doubtful relation , which we must take at his word : and how shall this testimony receive credit from his word , whose very name had scarce been thought on but for this bare tes ...
... hath left him ine- morable to posterity , but only this doubtful relation , which we must take at his word : and how shall this testimony receive credit from his word , whose very name had scarce been thought on but for this bare tes ...
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... hath read with judgment , of nations and common- wealths , of cities and camps , of peace and war , sea and land , will readily agree that the flourishing and decay- ing of all civil societies , all the moments and turnings of human ...
... hath read with judgment , of nations and common- wealths , of cities and camps , of peace and war , sea and land , will readily agree that the flourishing and decay- ing of all civil societies , all the moments and turnings of human ...
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... hath so commanded . But whether of these two , prelaty , or presbytery , can prove itself to be supported by this first and greatest rea- son , must be the next dispute : wherein this 58 The Reason of Church - Government.
... hath so commanded . But whether of these two , prelaty , or presbytery , can prove itself to be supported by this first and greatest rea- son , must be the next dispute : wherein this 58 The Reason of Church - Government.
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... ruled in common by the presbyters and such a certain truth this was es- teemed , that it became a decree among the papal ca- nons compiled by Gratian . **** Tradition they say hath taught them , that , for urged against Prelaty . 61.
... ruled in common by the presbyters and such a certain truth this was es- teemed , that it became a decree among the papal ca- nons compiled by Gratian . **** Tradition they say hath taught them , that , for urged against Prelaty . 61.
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... hath ob- tained in more than the scantiest measure to know any thing distinctly of God , and of his true worship , and what is infallibly good and happy in the state of man's life , what in itself evil and miserable , though vulgarly ...
... hath ob- tained in more than the scantiest measure to know any thing distinctly of God , and of his true worship , and what is infallibly good and happy in the state of man's life , what in itself evil and miserable , though vulgarly ...
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Page 317 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Page 284 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Page 295 - He that can • apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he. is the true warfaring Christian.
Page 148 - At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, when all Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
Page 76 - 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 amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite...
Page 320 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page 166 - If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Page 58 - I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
Page 329 - The Tenure Of Kings And Magistrates: Proving, That it is Lawful!, and hath been held so through all Ages, for any, who have the Power, to call to account a Tyrant, or wicked King, and after due conviction, to depose, and put him to death; if the ordinary Magistrate have neglected, or deny'd to doe it.
Page 269 - But here the main skill and groundwork will be, to temper them such lectures and explanations upon every opportunity, as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, enflamed with the study of learning, and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men, and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.