A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1Bowles and Dearborn, 1826 |
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... Antiquity discovered ; the Disparity of the ancient and our modern Bishops man- ifested ; the antiquity of ruling Elders in the Church vindicated ; the prelatical Church bounded . Written by Smectymnuus ; ' a quaint title , and a quaint ...
... Antiquity discovered ; the Disparity of the ancient and our modern Bishops man- ifested ; the antiquity of ruling Elders in the Church vindicated ; the prelatical Church bounded . Written by Smectymnuus ; ' a quaint title , and a quaint ...
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... antiquity I shall think to have fully answered , if I shall be able to prove out of an- tiquity , First , that if they will conform our bishops to the purer times , they must mew their feathers , and their pounces , and make but ...
... antiquity I shall think to have fully answered , if I shall be able to prove out of an- tiquity , First , that if they will conform our bishops to the purer times , they must mew their feathers , and their pounces , and make but ...
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... antiquity's sake . He writes in his description of Scotland , that over all the world bishops had no certain diocese till pope Dionysius about the year 268 did cut them out ; and that the bishops of Scotland executed their function in ...
... antiquity's sake . He writes in his description of Scotland , that over all the world bishops had no certain diocese till pope Dionysius about the year 268 did cut them out ; and that the bishops of Scotland executed their function in ...
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... antiquities . This voice of the people , to be had ever in epis- copal elections , was so well known before Cyprian's time , even to those that were without the church , that the emperor Alexander Severus desired to have his governors ...
... antiquities . This voice of the people , to be had ever in epis- copal elections , was so well known before Cyprian's time , even to those that were without the church , that the emperor Alexander Severus desired to have his governors ...
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... antiquity , affirms in the same book of Eusebius , chapter thirty- second , that while the apostles were on earth , the de- pravers of doctrine did but lurk ; but they once gone , with open forehead they durst preach down the truth with ...
... antiquity , affirms in the same book of Eusebius , chapter thirty- second , that while the apostles were on earth , the de- pravers of doctrine did but lurk ; but they once gone , with open forehead they durst preach down the truth with ...
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Page 148 - 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, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 146 - ... to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ...
Page 238 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page xxx - 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. And that they, who of late, so much blame Deposing, are the men that did it themselves.
Page 145 - ... of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model: or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be...
Page 105 - But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Page viii - Yet, be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even 10 To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Page 104 - 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.
Page 172 - For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ ; and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
Page 138 - Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth ! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.