Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, Volume 1J. Miller, 1809 |
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... hope ? In thy adulterers , or thy ill - got wealth ? Another Constantine comes not in haste . Ariosto of Ferrara , after both these in time , but equal in fame , following the scope of his poem in a difficult knot how to restore Orlando ...
... hope ? In thy adulterers , or thy ill - got wealth ? Another Constantine comes not in haste . Ariosto of Ferrara , after both these in time , but equal in fame , following the scope of his poem in a difficult knot how to restore Orlando ...
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... hope can we have of this whole council to warrant us a matter , four hundred years at least above their time , concerning the distinction of bishop and presbyter , whenas we find them such blind judges of things before their eyes , in ...
... hope can we have of this whole council to warrant us a matter , four hundred years at least above their time , concerning the distinction of bishop and presbyter , whenas we find them such blind judges of things before their eyes , in ...
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... hope can we have of such a council , as , beginning in the spirit , ended thus in the flesh Much rather should we attend to what Eusebius , the ancientest writer extant of church - his- tory , notwithstanding all the helps he had above ...
... hope can we have of such a council , as , beginning in the spirit , ended thus in the flesh Much rather should we attend to what Eusebius , the ancientest writer extant of church - his- tory , notwithstanding all the helps he had above ...
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... hope to persuade us out of the same author , that James the brother of our Lord was a Nazarite , and that to him only it was lawful to enter into the holy of holies ; that his food was not upon any thing that had life , fish or flesh ...
... hope to persuade us out of the same author , that James the brother of our Lord was a Nazarite , and that to him only it was lawful to enter into the holy of holies ; that his food was not upon any thing that had life , fish or flesh ...
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... humour of vainglory hath incited me to contest with men of high estimation , now while green years are upon my head ; from this needless surmisal I shall hope to dissuade the intelligent and equal auditor ,. urged against Prelaty . 69.
... humour of vainglory hath incited me to contest with men of high estimation , now while green years are upon my head ; from this needless surmisal I shall hope to dissuade the intelligent and equal auditor ,. urged against Prelaty . 69.
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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.