John Milton: His Life and Times, Religious and Political Opinions: With an Appendix, Containing Animadversions Upon Dr. Johnson's Life of Milton, Etc., Etc |
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... Reformation from Popery .-- Prayer to the Trinity in Uni- y . - Declaration of his motives in writing . - Conduct of the Bishops . Admiration of the Reformation . Appeal to the united English and Scotch nations . Origin of Antichrist ...
... Reformation from Popery .-- Prayer to the Trinity in Uni- y . - Declaration of his motives in writing . - Conduct of the Bishops . Admiration of the Reformation . Appeal to the united English and Scotch nations . Origin of Antichrist ...
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... Reformation from Popery , which were dedicated to a friend . In the first of these he proved , from the reign of Henry the Eighth , what had all along been the real impediments in the kingdom to a perfect Reformation . These he reduces ...
... Reformation from Popery , which were dedicated to a friend . In the first of these he proved , from the reign of Henry the Eighth , what had all along been the real impediments in the kingdom to a perfect Reformation . These he reduces ...
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... reformation of the Church in these latter days . " Speak- ing of the Popish corruptions , he thus satirizes them : " They hallowed it , [ religion , ] they fumed it , they sprinkled it , they bedeck't it , not in robes of pure inno ...
... reformation of the Church in these latter days . " Speak- ing of the Popish corruptions , he thus satirizes them : " They hallowed it , [ religion , ] they fumed it , they sprinkled it , they bedeck't it , not in robes of pure inno ...
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... Reformation begins thus : — " Sir , It is a work , good and prudent , to be able to guide one man ; of larger extended virtue , to order well one house ; but to govern a nation piously and justly , which only is to say happily , is for ...
... Reformation begins thus : — " Sir , It is a work , good and prudent , to be able to guide one man ; of larger extended virtue , to order well one house ; but to govern a nation piously and justly , which only is to say happily , is for ...
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... Reformation to the Bishops , and then proceeds to prove from antiquity , that , in the primitive church , elections ... Reformation , he expresses himself with perfect rapture . " How the bright and glorious Reformation ( by divine power ...
... Reformation to the Bishops , and then proceeds to prove from antiquity , that , in the primitive church , elections ... Reformation , he expresses himself with perfect rapture . " How the bright and glorious Reformation ( by divine power ...
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Page 140 - Purification in the old Law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind: Her face was veiled, yet to my fancied sight, Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined So clear, as in no face with more delight. But O as to embrace me she inclined, I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.
Page 225 - OF MAN'S first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, Heavenly Muse...
Page 270 - Christian men are discerned from others that be not christened, but it is also a sign of regeneration or new birth, whereby, as by an instrument, they that receive baptism rightly are grafted into the Church ; the promises of the forgiveness of sin, and of our adoption to be the sons of God by the Holy Ghost, are visibly signed and sealed; faith is confirmed, and grace increased by virtue of prayer unto God. The baptism of young children is in any wise to be retained in the Church, as most agreeable...
Page 227 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note: thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of...
Page 130 - CYRIACK, this three years day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer Right onward. What supports me, dost thou ask ? The conscience, Friend, to have lost them overplied In liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which...
Page 80 - And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Page 223 - I modestly but freely told him ; and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, " Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found?
Page 271 - God's Word, or of the Sacraments, the which thing the Injunctions also lately set forth by Elizabeth our Queen do most plainly testify; but that only prerogative, which we see to have been given always to all godly Princes in holy Scriptures by God himself; that is, that they should rule all estates and degrees committed to their charge by God, whether they be Ecclesiastical or Temporal, and restrain with the civil sword the stubborn and evil-doers.
Page 228 - 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.
Page 227 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...