Prose Works of John MiltonJ.B. Alden, 1885 - 486 pages |
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... ancient stories of the Church , and to be no stranger in the volumes of the fathers , shall have all judicious men consent- ing with him ; not hereby to control and new- fangle the Scripture , God forbid ! but to mark how corruption and ...
... ancient stories of the Church , and to be no stranger in the volumes of the fathers , shall have all judicious men consent- ing with him ; not hereby to control and new- fangle the Scripture , God forbid ! but to mark how corruption and ...
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... ancient authority than any heathen writer hath to give us ; and , indeed , being a point of so high wis- dom and worth , how could it be but we should find it in that book within whose sacred context all wisdom is unfolded ? Moses ...
... ancient authority than any heathen writer hath to give us ; and , indeed , being a point of so high wis- dom and worth , how could it be but we should find it in that book within whose sacred context all wisdom is unfolded ? Moses ...
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... ancient lawgivers were either truly inspired , as Moses , or were such men as with authority enough might give it out to be so , as Minos , Lycurgus , Numa , because they wisely forethought that men would never quietly submit to such a ...
... ancient lawgivers were either truly inspired , as Moses , or were such men as with authority enough might give it out to be so , as Minos , Lycurgus , Numa , because they wisely forethought that men would never quietly submit to such a ...
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... ancient prophets , yet the irksome- ness of that truth which they brought was so unpleasant unto them , that everywhere they call it a burden . Yea , that mysterious book of revela- tion which the great Evangelist was bid to eat , as it ...
... ancient prophets , yet the irksome- ness of that truth which they brought was so unpleasant unto them , that everywhere they call it a burden . Yea , that mysterious book of revela- tion which the great Evangelist was bid to eat , as it ...
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... ancient stories ; or whether those dramatic constitutions , wherein Sophocles and Eu- ripides reign , shall be found more doctrinal and exemplary to a nation . The Scripture also af- fords us a divine pastoral drama in the Song of ...
... ancient stories ; or whether those dramatic constitutions , wherein Sophocles and Eu- ripides reign , shall be found more doctrinal and exemplary to a nation . The Scripture also af- fords us a divine pastoral drama in the Song of ...
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