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D . ] Flowers worthy of paradise , which not nice art In beds and curious knots , but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill , and dale , and plain . Paradise Lost , lib . iv . [ 241.-D. ] 1 For earth hath this variety from heaven Of ...
D . ] Flowers worthy of paradise , which not nice art In beds and curious knots , but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill , and dale , and plain . Paradise Lost , lib . iv . [ 241.-D. ] 1 For earth hath this variety from heaven Of ...
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Page 32 - ... that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he be not far from every one of us : For in him we live, and move and have our being ; as certain also of your own poets [have said, for we are also his offspring.
Page 173 - Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 26 - Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
Page 31 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Page 241 - For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
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| Title | The Works of Richard Bentley, D. D. Literature of theology and church history: A basic library of British theological studies Volume 3 of The Works of Richard Bentley, D. D, Richard Bentley |
| Author | Richard Bentley |
| Editor | Alexander Dyce |
| Publisher | F. Macpherson, 1838 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Mar 11, 2008 |
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