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... gives birth to some very striking description of the corruptions of a court , and of the inevitable evils which must ensue on the " re - admission of kingship . " The unfortunate issue of this contest brought discredit , for awhile , on ...
... gives birth to some very striking description of the corruptions of a court , and of the inevitable evils which must ensue on the " re - admission of kingship . " The unfortunate issue of this contest brought discredit , for awhile , on ...
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... give his enemies an advantage , he was under the necessity of fighting them with their own weapons ; with this difference , how- ever , that his weapons were whetted only by truth . What ! says he , shall the royalists be at liberty to ...
... give his enemies an advantage , he was under the necessity of fighting them with their own weapons ; with this difference , how- ever , that his weapons were whetted only by truth . What ! says he , shall the royalists be at liberty to ...
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... . Saint Paul writes , that " a man may give his body to be burnt , ( meaning for religion ) and yet not have charity : " he is not therefore above all possibility of erring , because he burns for Of Reformation in England .
... . Saint Paul writes , that " a man may give his body to be burnt , ( meaning for religion ) and yet not have charity : " he is not therefore above all possibility of erring , because he burns for Of Reformation in England .
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... give us the ampler scope to judge , will require a more exact search : and to effect this the speedier , I shall distinguish such as I esteem to be the hinderers of reformation into three sorts , Antiquitarians ( for so I had rather ...
... give us the ampler scope to judge , will require a more exact search : and to effect this the speedier , I shall distinguish such as I esteem to be the hinderers of reformation into three sorts , Antiquitarians ( for so I had rather ...
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... was his absolution , He was an easy man to give penance . And so I leave them ; and refer the political dis- course of episcopacy to a second book . OF REFORMATION IN ENGLAND . BOOK II . SIR , 18 Of Reformation in England .
... was his absolution , He was an easy man to give penance . And so I leave them ; and refer the political dis- course of episcopacy to a second book . OF REFORMATION IN ENGLAND . BOOK II . SIR , 18 Of Reformation in England .
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 166 - If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.