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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... had always accustomed himself to what he called " this just and honest manner of speaking . " The following beautiful description of Truth is a specimen : - In his " Areopagitica , " published 1644 , he viii PREFACE .
... had always accustomed himself to what he called " this just and honest manner of speaking . " The following beautiful description of Truth is a specimen : - In his " Areopagitica , " published 1644 , he viii PREFACE .
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... Speaking of the Popish cor- ruptions , he thus satirizes them : " They hallowed it , [ religion , ] they fumed it , they sprinkled it , they bedeck't it , not in robes of pure innocency , but of pure linen , with other deformed and ...
... Speaking of the Popish cor- ruptions , he thus satirizes them : " They hallowed it , [ religion , ] they fumed it , they sprinkled it , they bedeck't it , not in robes of pure innocency , but of pure linen , with other deformed and ...
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... veighed against error and superstition , with vehe- ment expressions ; I have done it , neither out of malice , nor lust to speak evil , nor any vain glory , # but of mere necessity , to vindicate the spotless 22 LIFE OF MILTON .
... veighed against error and superstition , with vehe- ment expressions ; I have done it , neither out of malice , nor lust to speak evil , nor any vain glory , # but of mere necessity , to vindicate the spotless 22 LIFE OF MILTON .
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... Speaking of the reign of ELIZABETH , he still imputes the obstructions of a further Reformation to the Bishops , and then proceeds to prove from antiquity , that , in the primitive church , elections to ecclesiastical offices belonged ...
... Speaking of the reign of ELIZABETH , he still imputes the obstructions of a further Reformation to the Bishops , and then proceeds to prove from antiquity , that , in the primitive church , elections to ecclesiastical offices belonged ...
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... speak their minds ; ' twere hard if the free - born people of England , with whom the voice of truth , for these many years , even against the proverb , hath not been heard but in corners , after all your monkish prohibitions , and ...
... speak their minds ; ' twere hard if the free - born people of England , with whom the voice of truth , for these many years , even against the proverb , hath not been heard but in corners , after all your monkish prohibitions , and ...
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Page 353 - It is not lawful for any man to take upon him the office of public preaching, or ministering the sacraments in the congregation, before he be lawfully called, and sent to execute the same. And those we ought to judge lawfully called and sent, which be chosen and called to this work by men who have public authority given unto them in the congregation, to call and send ministers into the Lord's vineyard.
Page 86 - 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 288 - 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 353 - 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 291 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Page 291 - 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 153 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide, "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?
Page 354 - 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 292 - 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 169 - 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...