The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1H. Hooker, 1845 |
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... granted to eight bishops , eight other divines , eight civilians , eight common lawyers , to frame ecclesiastical constitutions ; which no wonder if it came to nothing , for ( as Hayward relates ) both their professions and their ends ...
... granted to eight bishops , eight other divines , eight civilians , eight common lawyers , to frame ecclesiastical constitutions ; which no wonder if it came to nothing , for ( as Hayward relates ) both their professions and their ends ...
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... granted them , unless God have smit- ten us with frenzy from above , and with a dazzling giddiness at noonday ? Should not those men rather be heard that come to plead against their own preferments , their worldly advantages , their own ...
... granted them , unless God have smit- ten us with frenzy from above , and with a dazzling giddiness at noonday ? Should not those men rather be heard that come to plead against their own preferments , their worldly advantages , their own ...
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... granted out of that place in St. Paul , which was only an in- treating him to tarry at Ephesus to do something left him in charge . Now , if Eusebius , a famous writer , thought it so difficult to tell who were appointed bishops by the ...
... granted out of that place in St. Paul , which was only an in- treating him to tarry at Ephesus to do something left him in charge . Now , if Eusebius , a famous writer , thought it so difficult to tell who were appointed bishops by the ...
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... granted ; that may not follow a chase rather than an argument , that one of these two , and none other , is of God's ordaining ; and if it be , that ordi- nance must be evident in the gospel . For the imperfect and obscure in- stitution ...
... granted ; that may not follow a chase rather than an argument , that one of these two , and none other , is of God's ordaining ; and if it be , that ordi- nance must be evident in the gospel . For the imperfect and obscure in- stitution ...
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... granted the privilege of this oraculous ephod alike to all his ministers . The reason therefore of imparity in the priests , being now , as is aforesaid , really annulled both in their person and in their repre- sentative office , what ...
... granted the privilege of this oraculous ephod alike to all his ministers . The reason therefore of imparity in the priests , being now , as is aforesaid , really annulled both in their person and in their repre- sentative office , what ...
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Page 168 - For Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 174 - That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure...
Page 159 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Page 159 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Page 341 - 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.
Page 185 - Osiris, took the virgin truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down, gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Page 322 - Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish aught from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.
Page xii - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Page viii - In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Page 320 - 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.