The Prose Works of John Milton ...: The likeliest means to remove hirelings out of the church. Animadversions upon the remonstrants' defence against Smectymnus. Apology for Smectymnuus. The doctrine and discipline of divorce. The judgment of M. Bucer concerning divorce. Tetrachordon. Colasterion. Tractate of education. Declaration for the election of John III., King of Poland. Familiar lettersG. Bell and sons, 1888 |
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... marriage was not holy without their benediction , and for the better colour , made it a sacra- ment ; being of itself a civil ordinance , a household contract , a thing indifferent and free to the whole race of mankind , not as ...
... marriage was not holy without their benediction , and for the better colour , made it a sacra- ment ; being of itself a civil ordinance , a household contract , a thing indifferent and free to the whole race of mankind , not as ...
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... marriage throughout Europe , with the incalculable evils which have arisen from its being considered indissoluble . The object of marriage must be admitted to be the happiness of those who enter into it , not their mere worldly ...
... marriage throughout Europe , with the incalculable evils which have arisen from its being considered indissoluble . The object of marriage must be admitted to be the happiness of those who enter into it , not their mere worldly ...
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... marriage becomes a very different contract from what it is among the under classes . Men of speculative minds have always sought to combine the celestial with the terrestrial sphere ; and knowing that the apogeum of the latter is love ...
... marriage becomes a very different contract from what it is among the under classes . Men of speculative minds have always sought to combine the celestial with the terrestrial sphere ; and knowing that the apogeum of the latter is love ...
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... marriage , must be forced upon us to fulfil , not only without charity but against her . No place in heaven or earth , except hell , where charity may not enter : yet mar- riage , the ordinance of our solace and contentment , the remedy ...
... marriage , must be forced upon us to fulfil , not only without charity but against her . No place in heaven or earth , except hell , where charity may not enter : yet mar- riage , the ordinance of our solace and contentment , the remedy ...
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... marriage ? And yet the misinterpreting of some scripture , directed mainly against the abusers of the law for divorce given by Moses , hath changed the blessing of matrimony not seldom into a familiar and coinhabiting mischief ; at ...
... marriage ? And yet the misinterpreting of some scripture , directed mainly against the abusers of the law for divorce given by Moses , hath changed the blessing of matrimony not seldom into a familiar and coinhabiting mischief ; at ...
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Page 254 - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 24 - Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 391 - For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
Page 254 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Page 362 - Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish aught from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.
Page 456 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 446 - I shall detain you now no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hillside, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education ; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
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