Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, Band 1J. Miller, 1809 |
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... wisdom and virtue , and that which springs from thence , magnanimity ( take heed of that ) , and that which is our beginning , regeneration , and happiest end , likeness to God , which in one word we call godliness ; and that this is ...
... wisdom and virtue , and that which springs from thence , magnanimity ( take heed of that ) , and that which is our beginning , regeneration , and happiest end , likeness to God , which in one word we call godliness ; and that this is ...
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... wisdom , the moderation , the Christian piety , the constancy of our nobility and com- mons of England , be ever forgotten , whose calm and temperate connivance could sit still and smile out the stormy bluster of men more audacious and ...
... wisdom , the moderation , the Christian piety , the constancy of our nobility and com- mons of England , be ever forgotten , whose calm and temperate connivance could sit still and smile out the stormy bluster of men more audacious and ...
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... wisdom the vanquishing and uncasing of craft and sub- tlety , which are but her two runagates : join your in- vincible might to do worthy and godlike deeds ; and then he that seeks to break your union , a cleaving curse be his ...
... wisdom the vanquishing and uncasing of craft and sub- tlety , which are but her two runagates : join your in- vincible might to do worthy and godlike deeds ; and then he that seeks to break your union , a cleaving curse be his ...
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... wisdom , or his virtue , hath left him ine- 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 ...
... wisdom , or his virtue , hath left him ine- 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 ...
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... wisdom , and the reverence of his age ; and so did Anicetus , Bi- shop of Rome , even in his own city , give him a kind of priority in administering the sacrament , as may be read in - Eusebius : but that we should hence conclude a ...
... wisdom , and the reverence of his age ; and so did Anicetus , Bi- shop of Rome , even in his own city , give him a kind of priority in administering the sacrament , as may be read in - Eusebius : but that we should hence conclude a ...
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Seite 317 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Seite 284 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Seite 295 - He that can • apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he. is the true warfaring Christian.
Seite 148 - At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, when all Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
Seite 76 - I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite...
Seite 320 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Seite 166 - If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Seite 58 - I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
Seite 329 - 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.
Seite 269 - But here the main skill and groundwork will be, to temper them such lectures and explanations upon every opportunity, as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, enflamed with the study of learning, and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men, and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.