Milton's Prose Tracts as a Gloss on Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson AgonistesStanford University, 1971 - 648 pages |
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... Creation . For long before the beginning of things , man had existed in the mind of God , " decreed from all eternity " ( C.D. , XIV , 63 ) ; at a certain point within time , God made him exist externally to fulfil the purpose of all ...
... Creation . For long before the beginning of things , man had existed in the mind of God , " decreed from all eternity " ( C.D. , XIV , 63 ) ; at a certain point within time , God made him exist externally to fulfil the purpose of all ...
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... Creation , he instituted the divine right of hereditary kings : .creation made man Prince of his posterity . And indeed not only Adam , but the suceeding Patriarchs had , by right of fatherhood , royal authority over their children ...
... Creation , he instituted the divine right of hereditary kings : .creation made man Prince of his posterity . And indeed not only Adam , but the suceeding Patriarchs had , by right of fatherhood , royal authority over their children ...
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... creation . Consider the singer's meditation in Psalm 1911 on the relationship between God's initial creation and the nature of his con- tinuing governance . While God's power to create displays his omnipotence over all being , his gift ...
... creation . Consider the singer's meditation in Psalm 1911 on the relationship between God's initial creation and the nature of his con- tinuing governance . While God's power to create displays his omnipotence over all being , his gift ...
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