The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 2J. Johnson, 1806 |
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... those minds , which perhaps out of a vigilant and wary confcience except against predeftination . Thus finally we may con- clude , that a law wholly giving licence cannot upon any good confideration be given to a holy people , for ...
... those minds , which perhaps out of a vigilant and wary confcience except against predeftination . Thus finally we may con- clude , that a law wholly giving licence cannot upon any good confideration be given to a holy people , for ...
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... those needful and safe allowances , wherewith Mofes himself interprets it to the fallen condition of man ; argues nothing in us but raflınefs and contempt of thofe means that God left us in his pure and chaste law , with- out which it ...
... those needful and safe allowances , wherewith Mofes himself interprets it to the fallen condition of man ; argues nothing in us but raflınefs and contempt of thofe means that God left us in his pure and chaste law , with- out which it ...
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... those laws which he promised exprefsly not to abrogate , but to vindicate from abufive traditions ? which is moft evidently to be seen in the xvi of Luke , where this cau- tion of not abrogating is inferted immediately , and not ...
... those laws which he promised exprefsly not to abrogate , but to vindicate from abufive traditions ? which is moft evidently to be seen in the xvi of Luke , where this cau- tion of not abrogating is inferted immediately , and not ...
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... those lefs faults tolerated for fear of greater harden their faces , not their hearts only , under the protection of public autho- rity . For what lefs indignity were this , than as if justice herself , the queen of virtues ( defcending ...
... those lefs faults tolerated for fear of greater harden their faces , not their hearts only , under the protection of public autho- rity . For what lefs indignity were this , than as if justice herself , the queen of virtues ( defcending ...
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... those words , which are made to intimate as if they forbad all divorce , but for adultery , ( though Mofes have conftituted otherwise ) those words taken circumfcriptly , without regard to any precedent law of Mofes , or atteftation of ...
... those words , which are made to intimate as if they forbad all divorce , but for adultery , ( though Mofes have conftituted otherwise ) those words taken circumfcriptly , without regard to any precedent law of Mofes , or atteftation of ...
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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.
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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...
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