The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 2J. Johnson, 1806 |
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... civil prudence . But when we speak of fin , let us look again upon the old reverend Eli ; who in his heavy punishment found no difference between the doing and permitting of what he did not approve . If hardness of heart in the people ...
... civil prudence . But when we speak of fin , let us look again upon the old reverend Eli ; who in his heavy punishment found no difference between the doing and permitting of what he did not approve . If hardness of heart in the people ...
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... civil court , this law is lefs judicial than nine of the ten commandments : for antiquaries affirm , that divorces divorces proceeded among the Jews without knowledge of the magiftrate 30 The Doctrine and Difcipline of Divorce .
... civil court , this law is lefs judicial than nine of the ten commandments : for antiquaries affirm , that divorces divorces proceeded among the Jews without knowledge of the magiftrate 30 The Doctrine and Difcipline of Divorce .
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... civil policy may with warrant from God fettle wickedness by law , and make that lawful which is lawless . Although I doubt not but upon deeper confideration , that which is true in phyfic will be found as true in policy , that as of bad ...
... civil policy may with warrant from God fettle wickedness by law , and make that lawful which is lawless . Although I doubt not but upon deeper confideration , that which is true in phyfic will be found as true in policy , that as of bad ...
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... civil prudence in the law , what is there in the gospel forbidding fuch a kind of legal wisdom , though we should admit the common expofitors ? CHAP . XVII . The fentence of Christ concerning divorce how to be ex- pounded . What Grotius ...
... civil prudence in the law , what is there in the gospel forbidding fuch a kind of legal wisdom , though we should admit the common expofitors ? CHAP . XVII . The fentence of Christ concerning divorce how to be ex- pounded . What Grotius ...
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... civil law he fhews , that even in sharpest penal laws the fame reafon hath the fame right ; and in gentler laws , that from like causes to like the law interprets rightly . But it may be objected , faith he , that nothing destroys the ...
... civil law he fhews , that even in sharpest penal laws the fame reafon hath the fame right ; and in gentler laws , that from like causes to like the law interprets rightly . But it may be objected , faith he , that nothing destroys the ...
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author John Milton,Charles Symmons No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 173 - And he answered and said unto them, "Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Page 146 - He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
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Page 298 - And surely they that shall boast, as we do, to be a free nation, and not have in themselves the power to remove or to abolish any governor supreme, or subordinate, with the government itself upon urgent causes, may please their fancy with a ridiculous and painted freedom, fit to cozen babies; but...
Page 143 - When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Page 211 - For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. 15. But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
Page 405 - Epistles, and by continual study had so incorporated the phrase and style of that transcendent apostle into all his familiar letters, that the imitation seemed to vie with the original. Yet this availed not to deceive the people of that empire, who, notwithstanding his saint's vizard, tore him to pieces for his tyranny. From stories of this nature both ancient and modern which abound, the poets also, and some English...
Page 205 - But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.