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... unto the Latin republick and equal judges of Europe , but , owing in the first place this service unto our country , and therein especially unto its ingenuous gentry , we have declared ourselves in a language best conceived . Although I ...
... unto the Latin republick and equal judges of Europe , but , owing in the first place this service unto our country , and therein especially unto its ingenuous gentry , we have declared ourselves in a language best conceived . Although I ...
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... unto some , she should be deluded by a ser- pent , or subject her reason to a beast , which God had sub- jected unto hers . It hath empuzzled the enquiries of others to apprehend , and enforced them unto strange conceptions , to make ...
... unto some , she should be deluded by a ser- pent , or subject her reason to a beast , which God had sub- jected unto hers . It hath empuzzled the enquiries of others to apprehend , and enforced them unto strange conceptions , to make ...
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... unto God . For he alone can truly determine these , and all things else ; who , as he hath proposed the world unto our disputation , so hath he reserved many things unto his own resolution ; whose determination we cannot hope from flesh ...
... unto God . For he alone can truly determine these , and all things else ; who , as he hath proposed the world unto our disputation , so hath he reserved many things unto his own resolution ; whose determination we cannot hope from flesh ...
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... unto his own . Those tormented spirits that wish the mountains to cover them , have fallen upon desires of minor absurdity , and chosen ways of less improbable concealment . Though this be also as ridiculous unto reason , as fruitless unto ...
... unto his own . Those tormented spirits that wish the mountains to cover them , have fallen upon desires of minor absurdity , and chosen ways of less improbable concealment . Though this be also as ridiculous unto reason , as fruitless unto ...
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... unto some minoration of our offences ; yet , had not the sincerity of our first parents so colourable expectations , unto whom the commandment was but single , and their in- tegrities best able to resist the motions of its transgression ...
... unto some minoration of our offences ; yet , had not the sincerity of our first parents so colourable expectations , unto whom the commandment was but single , and their in- tegrities best able to resist the motions of its transgression ...
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Page xxxviii - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions, hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Page 348 - And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Page 31 - Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, and saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down ; for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Page 433 - So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.