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Page xiii
... Charles hoped to manage the church and through her the nation : and the court of star - chamber and high - commission were ready to punish both clergy and laity who refused compliance , in the minutest point , with these rules .
... Charles hoped to manage the church and through her the nation : and the court of star - chamber and high - commission were ready to punish both clergy and laity who refused compliance , in the minutest point , with these rules .
Page xvii
They punished obstinate error only by , simple exclusion from their church . Marriage they considered as a civil contract , and to be resigned to the magistrate . The presbytexians , once persecuted , became , as usual , persecutors in ...
They punished obstinate error only by , simple exclusion from their church . Marriage they considered as a civil contract , and to be resigned to the magistrate . The presbytexians , once persecuted , became , as usual , persecutors in ...
Page xli
... is liable to be cashiered , or even punished capitally , should such be the will of the community ; hence that Charles I , being guilty of misgovernment and breach of trust , was justly and lawfully put to death .
... is liable to be cashiered , or even punished capitally , should such be the will of the community ; hence that Charles I , being guilty of misgovernment and breach of trust , was justly and lawfully put to death .
Page xlix
He is inhumanly upbraided with his blindness , as the punishment of divine wrath ; and the noble and magnanimous manner in which he speaks upon this melancholy subject cannot be read without deep ...
He is inhumanly upbraided with his blindness , as the punishment of divine wrath ; and the noble and magnanimous manner in which he speaks upon this melancholy subject cannot be read without deep ...
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And whereas temporal laws rather punish men when they have transgressed , than form them to be such as should transgress seldomest , we may conceive great hopes , through the showers of divine benediction watering the unmolested and ...
And whereas temporal laws rather punish men when they have transgressed , than form them to be such as should transgress seldomest , we may conceive great hopes , through the showers of divine benediction watering the unmolested and ...
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| Title | Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, Volume 1 Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, George Burnett |
| Author | John Milton |
| Translated by | George Burnett |
| Publisher | J. Miller, 1809 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 15 Feb 2019 |
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