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... caused great exasperation . I must have set down as a grave moral offence , the disingenuousness so common at the ... cause of good morals or good man- ners , of piety or peace . That I have never been unjust to those who differ from ...
... caused great exasperation . I must have set down as a grave moral offence , the disingenuousness so common at the ... cause of good morals or good man- ners , of piety or peace . That I have never been unjust to those who differ from ...
Page viii
... cause of religious freedom owes its present strength to nothing so much , as to the con- stancy and resolution of its friends in this quarter . Here its chief battle has been fought , and not fought in vain . The spirit of intol- erance ...
... cause of religious freedom owes its present strength to nothing so much , as to the con- stancy and resolution of its friends in this quarter . Here its chief battle has been fought , and not fought in vain . The spirit of intol- erance ...
Page ix
... cause of religion and freedom . I will only add , that whilst I attach no great value to these articles , I still should not have submitted to the labor of partially revising them , did I not believe , that they set forth some great ...
... cause of religion and freedom . I will only add , that whilst I attach no great value to these articles , I still should not have submitted to the labor of partially revising them , did I not believe , that they set forth some great ...
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... cause of human nature has always to wrestle with foes . All improvement is a victory won by struggles . It is cially true of those great periods which have been dis- tinguished by revolutions in government and religion , espe- and from ...
... cause of human nature has always to wrestle with foes . All improvement is a victory won by struggles . It is cially true of those great periods which have been dis- tinguished by revolutions in government and religion , espe- and from ...
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... retired thoughts , out of the sweat of other Thou hadst the diligence , the parts , the language of a man , if a vain subject were to be adorned or beautified ; but when the men . cause of God and his church was to be pleaded 3 25.
... retired thoughts , out of the sweat of other Thou hadst the diligence , the parts , the language of a man , if a vain subject were to be adorned or beautified ; but when the men . cause of God and his church was to be pleaded 3 25.
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Page 239 - ... to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory ; whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus ; whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
Page 26 - ... 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 50 - And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Page 401 - By thine Agony and bloody Sweat; by thy Cross and Passion ; by thy precious Death and Burial ; by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension ; and by the coming of the Holy Ghost, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 27 - ... faith against the enemies of Christ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship. Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable or grave, whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that which is called fortune from without, or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within ; all these things with a solid and treatable smoothness to paint out and describe.
Page 13 - Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled...
Page 27 - 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 amourist, 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 31 - 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 391 - The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: 30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
Page 26 - Thou hadst the diligence, the parts, the language of a man, if a vain subject were to be adorned or beautified; but when the cause of God and his Church was to be pleaded, for which purpose that tongue was given thee which thou hast, God listened if he could hear thy voice among his zealous servants, but thou wert dumb as a beast; from henceforward be that which thine own brutish silence hath made thee.