Treasures from the Prose Writings of John MiltonTicknor and Fields, 1866 - 486 pagina's |
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Pagina 4
... wherein the huge overshadowing train of error had almost swept all the stars out of the firmament of the Church ; how the bright and blissful Reformation ( by Divine power ) struck through the black and settled night of ignorance and ...
... wherein the huge overshadowing train of error had almost swept all the stars out of the firmament of the Church ; how the bright and blissful Reformation ( by Divine power ) struck through the black and settled night of ignorance and ...
Pagina 13
... wherein to examine and increase our knowledge of God , to meditate and commune of our faith , our hope , our eternal city in heaven , and to quicken withal the study and exercise of charity ; at such a time that men should be plucked ...
... wherein to examine and increase our knowledge of God , to meditate and commune of our faith , our hope , our eternal city in heaven , and to quicken withal the study and exercise of charity ; at such a time that men should be plucked ...
Pagina 19
... wherein passes more lover - like contestation between Christ and the soul of a regenerate man lapsing , than be- fore , and in , and after the sentence of excommuni- cation . As for the fogging proctorage of money , with such an eye as ...
... wherein passes more lover - like contestation between Christ and the soul of a regenerate man lapsing , than be- fore , and in , and after the sentence of excommuni- cation . As for the fogging proctorage of money , with such an eye as ...
Pagina 38
... wherein is no immaturity , nothing out of season , it goes far otherwise . The door of grace turns upon smooth hinges , wide opening to send out , but soon shut- ting to recall the precious offers of mercy to a na- tion : which , unless ...
... wherein is no immaturity , nothing out of season , it goes far otherwise . The door of grace turns upon smooth hinges , wide opening to send out , but soon shut- ting to recall the precious offers of mercy to a na- tion : which , unless ...
Pagina 46
... wherein knowing myself inferior to myself , led by the genial power of na- ture to another task , I have the use , as I may ac- count , but of my left hand . And though I shall be foolish in saying more to this purpose , yet , since it ...
... wherein knowing myself inferior to myself , led by the genial power of na- ture to another task , I have the use , as I may ac- count , but of my left hand . And though I shall be foolish in saying more to this purpose , yet , since it ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 431 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Pagina 92 - 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 triie virtue, which, being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Pagina 99 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Pagina 33 - His word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones; I was weary with forbearing, and could not stay
Pagina 460 - 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 deny'd to doe it.
Pagina 444 - And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again ; as it is also written in the second Psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
Pagina 451 - Create in me a clean heart, 0 God ; and renew a right spirit within me.
Pagina 118 - ... there must be many schisms and many dissections made in the quarry and in the timber ere the house of God can be built. And when every stone is laid artfully together, it cannot be united into a continuity, it can but be contiguous in this world. Neither can every piece of the building be of one form; nay, rather the perfection consists in this, that out of many moderate varieties and brotherly dissimilitudes that are not vastly disproportional, arises the goodly and the graceful symmetry that...
Pagina 120 - ... is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy, and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay...
Pagina 429 - But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers...