The Prose Works of John Milton ...Bell & Daldy, 1868 |
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... covenant wrested , wherein the fear of change and the absurd contradiction of a flattering hostility had hampered them , but not scrupling to give away for compliments , to an implacable revenge , the heads of many thousand Christians ...
... covenant wrested , wherein the fear of change and the absurd contradiction of a flattering hostility had hampered them , but not scrupling to give away for compliments , to an implacable revenge , the heads of many thousand Christians ...
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... covenant , felt extreme tenderness for the inviolability and sacredness of the king's person , which they had en- dangered by their war , and violated by their chains . It would have been well for them if they had attended to the ...
... covenant , felt extreme tenderness for the inviolability and sacredness of the king's person , which they had en- dangered by their war , and violated by their chains . It would have been well for them if they had attended to the ...
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... covenant must have executed for himself , and for one another . And to him that shall con- sider well , why among free persons one man by civil right should bear authority and jurisdiction over another , no other end or reason can be ...
... covenant must have executed for himself , and for one another . And to him that shall con- sider well , why among free persons one man by civil right should bear authority and jurisdiction over another , no other end or reason can be ...
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... covenants made with them at coronation , all oaths are in vain , and mere mockeries ; all laws which they swear to keep , made to no purpose for if the king fear not God , ( as how many of them do not , ) we hold then our lives and ...
... covenants made with them at coronation , all oaths are in vain , and mere mockeries ; all laws which they swear to keep , made to no purpose for if the king fear not God , ( as how many of them do not , ) we hold then our lives and ...
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... covenant between him and the people , ( 2 Kings , xi . 17. ) Therefore when Roboam , at his coming to the crown , rejected those conditions which the Israelites brought him , hear what they answer him : " What portion have we in David ...
... covenant between him and the people , ( 2 Kings , xi . 17. ) Therefore when Roboam , at his coming to the crown , rejected those conditions which the Israelites brought him , hear what they answer him : " What portion have we in David ...
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