Treasures from the Prose Writings of John MiltonTicknor and Fields, 1866 - 486 pages |
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... zeal . In brief , there is no act in all the errand of God's ministers to mankind wherein passes more lover - like contestation between Christ and the soul of a regenerate man lapsing , than be- fore , and in , and after the sentence of ...
... zeal . In brief , there is no act in all the errand of God's ministers to mankind wherein passes more lover - like contestation between Christ and the soul of a regenerate man lapsing , than be- fore , and in , and after the sentence of ...
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... zeal , two quicksighted and ready - handed virgins , be there in our behalf to receive , we lose ; and still the oftener we lose , the straiter the door opens , and the less is offered . This is all we get 38 REASON OF CHURCH GOVERNMENT.
... zeal , two quicksighted and ready - handed virgins , be there in our behalf to receive , we lose ; and still the oftener we lose , the straiter the door opens , and the less is offered . This is all we get 38 REASON OF CHURCH GOVERNMENT.
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... zeal . Dare not now to say or do anything better than thy former sloth and infancy ; or if thou darest , thou dost impudent- ly to make a thrifty purchase of boldness to thyself , out of the painful merits of other men ; what be- fore ...
... zeal . Dare not now to say or do anything better than thy former sloth and infancy ; or if thou darest , thou dost impudent- ly to make a thrifty purchase of boldness to thyself , out of the painful merits of other men ; what be- fore ...
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... zeal of truth to a well - heated fervency ; es- pecially , seeing they which thus offend against the souls of their brethren , do it with delight to their great gain , ease , and advancement in this world ; but they that seek to ...
... zeal of truth to a well - heated fervency ; es- pecially , seeing they which thus offend against the souls of their brethren , do it with delight to their great gain , ease , and advancement in this world ; but they that seek to ...
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... Zeal , whose substance is ethereal , arming in complete diamond , ascends his fiery chariot , drawn with two blazing meteors , figured like beasts , but of a higher breed than any the zodiac yields , resembling two of those four which ...
... Zeal , whose substance is ethereal , arming in complete diamond , ascends his fiery chariot , drawn with two blazing meteors , figured like beasts , but of a higher breed than any the zodiac yields , resembling two of those four which ...
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Page 431 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Page 92 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of triie virtue, which, being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Page 99 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Page 33 - His word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones; I was weary with forbearing, and could not stay
Page 460 - 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 444 - And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again ; as it is also written in the second Psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
Page 451 - Create in me a clean heart, 0 God ; and renew a right spirit within me.
Page 118 - ... there must be many schisms and many dissections made in the quarry and in the timber ere the house of God can be built. And when every stone is laid artfully together, it cannot be united into a continuity, it can but be contiguous in this world. Neither can every piece of the building be of one form; nay, rather the perfection consists in this, that out of many moderate varieties and brotherly dissimilitudes that are not vastly disproportional, arises the goodly and the graceful symmetry that...
Page 120 - ... is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy, and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay...
Page 429 - But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers...