Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, Volume 1J. Miller, 1809 |
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Page 31
... marriage - bed , which in both sexes should be bred up from chaste hopes to loyal enjoyments ; and when the people slacken , and fall to looseness and riot , then do they as much as if they laid down their necks for some wild tyrant to ...
... marriage - bed , which in both sexes should be bred up from chaste hopes to loyal enjoyments ; and when the people slacken , and fall to looseness and riot , then do they as much as if they laid down their necks for some wild tyrant to ...
Page 110
... marriage must not be called a defilement . Thus large I have purposely been , that if I have been justly taxed with this crime , it may come upon me , after all this my confession , with a tenfold shame ; but if I have hitherto deserved ...
... marriage must not be called a defilement . Thus large I have purposely been , that if I have been justly taxed with this crime , it may come upon me , after all this my confession , with a tenfold shame ; but if I have hitherto deserved ...
Page 120
... marriages , I care not if I tell him thus much professedly , though it be the losing of my rich hopes , as he calls them , that I think with them who , both in prudence and elegance of spirit , would choose a virgin of mean fortunes ...
... marriages , I care not if I tell him thus much professedly , though it be the losing of my rich hopes , as he calls them , that I think with them who , both in prudence and elegance of spirit , would choose a virgin of mean fortunes ...
Page 164
... marriages , and burials : which , though whoso will may give freely , yet being not of right , but of free gift , if they be exacted or established , they become unjust to them who are otherwise main- tained ; and of such evil note ...
... marriages , and burials : which , though whoso will may give freely , yet being not of right , but of free gift , if they be exacted or established , they become unjust to them who are otherwise main- tained ; and of such evil note ...
Page 165
... marriages , burials , and especially for interring , are wicked , accursed , simo- niacal , and abominable : yet thus is the church , for all this noise of reformation , left still unreformed , by the censure of their own synods , their ...
... marriages , burials , and especially for interring , are wicked , accursed , simo- niacal , and abominable : yet thus is the church , for all this noise of reformation , left still unreformed , by the censure of their own synods , their ...
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