The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1806 |
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... evil , nor any vain glory , but of mere neceffity to vindicate the spotlefs truth from an ignominious bondage , whofe native worth is now become of fuch a low efteem , that fhe is like to find fmall credit with us for what she can fay ...
... evil , nor any vain glory , but of mere neceffity to vindicate the spotlefs truth from an ignominious bondage , whofe native worth is now become of fuch a low efteem , that fhe is like to find fmall credit with us for what she can fay ...
Page 49
... evil like a torrent , and rid our- felves of corrupt difcipline , as we would shake fire out of our bofoms . Speedy and vehement were the reformations of all the good kings of Judah , though the people had been nuzzled in idolatry ever ...
... evil like a torrent , and rid our- felves of corrupt difcipline , as we would shake fire out of our bofoms . Speedy and vehement were the reformations of all the good kings of Judah , though the people had been nuzzled in idolatry ever ...
Page 75
... evil which other men feek from them , in this way of fkirmish we shall eafily mafter all fuperftition and falfe doctrine ; but if we turn this our discreet and wary ufage of them into a blind devotion towards them , and whatsoever we ...
... evil which other men feek from them , in this way of fkirmish we shall eafily mafter all fuperftition and falfe doctrine ; but if we turn this our discreet and wary ufage of them into a blind devotion towards them , and whatsoever we ...
Page 103
... evil report upon the expected reforming grace that God hath bid us hope for ; like those faithlefs fpies , whose carcases shall perish in the wilder- nefs of their own confufed ignorance , and never taste the good of reformation . Do ...
... evil report upon the expected reforming grace that God hath bid us hope for ; like those faithlefs fpies , whose carcases shall perish in the wilder- nefs of their own confufed ignorance , and never taste the good of reformation . Do ...
Page 114
... evil and miferable , though vulgarly not fo efteemed ; he that hath obtained to know this , the only high valuable wisdom in- deed , remembering alfo that God , even to aftrictnefs , requires the improvement of thefe his entrufted gifts ...
... evil and miferable , though vulgarly not fo efteemed ; he that hath obtained to know this , the only high valuable wisdom in- deed , remembering alfo that God , even to aftrictnefs , requires the improvement of thefe his entrufted gifts ...
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