Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, Volume 1J. Miller, 1809 |
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... hath been known , no not the Spartan , not the Roman , though both for this respect so much praised by the wise Polybius , more di- vinely and harmoniously tuned , more equally balanced as it were by the hand and scale of justice , than ...
... hath been known , no not the Spartan , not the Roman , though both for this respect so much praised by the wise Polybius , more di- vinely and harmoniously tuned , more equally balanced as it were by the hand and scale of justice , than ...
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... hath left him me- morable to posterity , but only this doubtful relation , which we must take at his word : and how shall this testimony receive credit from his word , whose very name had scarce been thought on but for this bare tes ...
... hath left him me- morable to posterity , but only this doubtful relation , which we must take at his word : and how shall this testimony receive credit from his word , whose very name had scarce been thought on but for this bare tes ...
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... hath professed , yea , though they had cast out devils in his name , he will not know at the last day ) , by this means they lost their time , and truanted in the fundamental grounds of saving knowledge , as was seen shortly by their ...
... hath professed , yea , though they had cast out devils in his name , he will not know at the last day ) , by this means they lost their time , and truanted in the fundamental grounds of saving knowledge , as was seen shortly by their ...
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... hath read with judgment , of nations and common- wealths , of cities and camps , of peace and war , sea and land , will readily agree that the flourishing and decay- ing of all civil societies , all the moments and turnings of human ...
... hath read with judgment , of nations and common- wealths , of cities and camps , of peace and war , sea and land , will readily agree that the flourishing and decay- ing of all civil societies , all the moments and turnings of human ...
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... hath so commanded . But whether of these two , prelaty , or presbytery , can prove itself to be supported by this first and greatest rea- son , must be the next dispute : wherein this 58 The Reason of Church - Government.
... hath so commanded . But whether of these two , prelaty , or presbytery , can prove itself to be supported by this first and greatest rea- son , must be the next dispute : wherein this 58 The Reason of Church - Government.
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