The works of John Donne. With a memoir by H. Alford, Volume 31839 |
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... reasons is unnecessary , and would be tedious ; it will ask less time , and afford more profit to consider the words both ways . In them therefore , considered twice over , we shall see a threefold state of the Christian church , and a ...
... reasons is unnecessary , and would be tedious ; it will ask less time , and afford more profit to consider the words both ways . In them therefore , considered twice over , we shall see a threefold state of the Christian church , and a ...
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... reason . For though reason cannot apprehend that a virgin should have a son , or that God should be made man and die , if we put our reason primarily and immediately upon the article single , ( for so it is the object of faith only ) ...
... reason . For though reason cannot apprehend that a virgin should have a son , or that God should be made man and die , if we put our reason primarily and immediately upon the article single , ( for so it is the object of faith only ) ...
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... reasons than any others can pretend , that Scripture ; and when our reason hath carried us so far , as to accept these Scriptures for the word of God , then all the particular articles , a virgin's son , and a mortal God , will follow ...
... reasons than any others can pretend , that Scripture ; and when our reason hath carried us so far , as to accept these Scriptures for the word of God , then all the particular articles , a virgin's son , and a mortal God , will follow ...
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... reason proportioned to our reason ; do not so , for it will vitiate , it will annihilate your understanding , your reason , and then what are you , for supernatural , or for natural knowledge ? But then there is another reason propor ...
... reason proportioned to our reason ; do not so , for it will vitiate , it will annihilate your understanding , your reason , and then what are you , for supernatural , or for natural knowledge ? But then there is another reason propor ...
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... reason to inter- pret them ) ne approximent , that they shall not come near him ; not near God in the service of his church , to do themselves any good ; his corrections shall harden them , and remove them further from him , and from ...
... reason to inter- pret them ) ne approximent , that they shall not come near him ; not near God in the service of his church , to do themselves any good ; his corrections shall harden them , and remove them further from him , and from ...
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Page 83 - I SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
Page 202 - O God of our salvation ; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea...
Page 282 - And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. And He saith unto them, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
Page 586 - The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
Page 328 - And they shall come from the east and from the west, and from the north and from the south ; and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
Page 208 - What shall we say then ? Is the law sin ? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law : for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
Page 416 - Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? Why are they then baptized for the dead?
Page 102 - And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow ; so as no fuller on earth can white them.
Page 62 - Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous : and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
Page 285 - I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool; his throne was like the fiery flame and his wheels as burning fire. A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him; thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set and the books were opened.