The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life, Volume 3Parker, 1839 - Sermons, English |
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... come for their huge opulency to that height , that they were formidable to those states that harboured them , and for their numbers , ( other orders holding proportion with that one ) to reckon out of one order , fifty - two popes , two ...
... come for their huge opulency to that height , that they were formidable to those states that harboured them , and for their numbers , ( other orders holding proportion with that one ) to reckon out of one order , fifty - two popes , two ...
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... come upon him unawares13 , we read it . We are tempted , and it is well that we are so . Qui non est tentatus , quid scit ... comes to know himself . So then , Laqueus est in securitate1 ; If I be secure , and negligent , that is a snare ...
... come upon him unawares13 , we read it . We are tempted , and it is well that we are so . Qui non est tentatus , quid scit ... comes to know himself . So then , Laqueus est in securitate1 ; If I be secure , and negligent , that is a snare ...
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... come to it in this . When we were upon this consideration in our former part , we showed you , that no over - tender or timorous soul , might hide itself in a retired life , from the offices of society , but though every particular age ...
... come to it in this . When we were upon this consideration in our former part , we showed you , that no over - tender or timorous soul , might hide itself in a retired life , from the offices of society , but though every particular age ...
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... comes to us without any purpose of departing from us again ; for the spirit of life that God breathed into man , that departs from man in death ; but when God had assumed the nature of man , the Godhead never parted from that nature ...
... comes to us without any purpose of departing from us again ; for the spirit of life that God breathed into man , that departs from man in death ; but when God had assumed the nature of man , the Godhead never parted from that nature ...
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... come to us , he never goes from us , out of any variableness in himself , but in us only ; that promise reaches to the ... comes with a purpose to stay , and would imprint in us an assurance that he doth so , and that impression is this ...
... come to us , he never goes from us , out of any variableness in himself , but in us only ; that promise reaches to the ... comes with a purpose to stay , and would imprint in us an assurance that he doth so , and that impression is this ...
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The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life;, Volume 1 Henry Alford,John Donne No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 414 - 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 81 - 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 184 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people...
Page 284 - And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 437 - Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
Page 60 - Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous : and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
Page 373 - It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel ; I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Page 18 - I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
Page 206 - 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 590 - 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.