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Page xviii
... Names of Roman and Greek Antiquity . We have none of These Prejudices against Them , but Admire , and are Delighted with their Abilities and Vertues ; and , if we are Wife and Good Our Selves , will become Wifer and Better by their Ex ...
... Names of Roman and Greek Antiquity . We have none of These Prejudices against Them , but Admire , and are Delighted with their Abilities and Vertues ; and , if we are Wife and Good Our Selves , will become Wifer and Better by their Ex ...
Page xxxvii
... Name , or Such Who with an Affec- tation of Goodnefs which Cofts Them No- thing , care not if they Wound One Already Injur'd . Let These Sort of Creatures remem- ber how Natural it is for Offenders to Juftify Themselves with Falfities ...
... Name , or Such Who with an Affec- tation of Goodnefs which Cofts Them No- thing , care not if they Wound One Already Injur'd . Let These Sort of Creatures remem- ber how Natural it is for Offenders to Juftify Themselves with Falfities ...
Page lxviii
... Names of Antiquity . You will Now be Defirous to know What Kind of Life was Allotted to This Extraordi- nary Man ; How His Portion of Being in This Mortal State was Employ'd . He was Born in Bread - street in London , 9 December 1608 ...
... Names of Antiquity . You will Now be Defirous to know What Kind of Life was Allotted to This Extraordi- nary Man ; How His Portion of Being in This Mortal State was Employ'd . He was Born in Bread - street in London , 9 December 1608 ...
Page lxxvi
... Name , and particularly of your Athens , I have Al- believ'd that One time or other that Grate- full City would make me Some Returns of Be- nevolence . nor bath the Ancient Genius of your moft Noble Countrey Deceiv'd my Augury , hav ...
... Name , and particularly of your Athens , I have Al- believ'd that One time or other that Grate- full City would make me Some Returns of Be- nevolence . nor bath the Ancient Genius of your moft Noble Countrey Deceiv'd my Augury , hav ...
Page lxxxii
... Names among the Clergy of That time , Such Zealous Preachers for the Church and Monarchy , that the Poor Banish'd King was put to the Great Expence ( to Him Then ) of Ja Hundred Jacobus's to Salmafius , for Writing against Those who had ...
... Names among the Clergy of That time , Such Zealous Preachers for the Church and Monarchy , that the Poor Banish'd King was put to the Great Expence ( to Him Then ) of Ja Hundred Jacobus's to Salmafius , for Writing against Those who had ...
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Page 514 - And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night...
Page cvii - 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 528 - Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned...
Page cv - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 513 - And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
Page 529 - Finally brethren, farewell : be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace ; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
Page cvii - Neither do 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...
Page 232 - This is dispensed ; and what surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Page xxi - But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal.
Page cxxii - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.