The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life, Volume 3Parker, 1839 - Sermons, English |
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... look into the world , or embrace a profession . Secondly , we shall see the church emancipated , enfranchised , unfettered , unmanacled , delivered from her obscure and inglorious state , and brought to splendour , and beauty , and ...
... look into the world , or embrace a profession . Secondly , we shall see the church emancipated , enfranchised , unfettered , unmanacled , delivered from her obscure and inglorious state , and brought to splendour , and beauty , and ...
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... look upon the reckoning , the emperors died faster than bishops . Thou hast compassed me , says the primitive church , and so says the reformed too . Princes that hated one another have joined in leagues against the religion , princes ...
... look upon the reckoning , the emperors died faster than bishops . Thou hast compassed me , says the primitive church , and so says the reformed too . Princes that hated one another have joined in leagues against the religion , princes ...
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... look upon our own weakness and unworthiness , we cry out , Wretched men that we are , who shall deliver us from this body of death ? For though we have the spirit of life in us , we have a body of death upon us . How loving soever my ...
... look upon our own weakness and unworthiness , we cry out , Wretched men that we are , who shall deliver us from this body of death ? For though we have the spirit of life in us , we have a body of death upon us . How loving soever my ...
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... look down to the earth too ; he will make thy considerations of this world accept- able to him , as well as those of the next ; he will remember thee , that angels descended as well as ascended 1 , that to a reli- gious soul , this ...
... look down to the earth too ; he will make thy considerations of this world accept- able to him , as well as those of the next ; he will remember thee , that angels descended as well as ascended 1 , that to a reli- gious soul , this ...
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... look for in the exposition of any Scripture , and the nearest way to the literal sense thereof , is , what may most deject and vilify man , what may most exalt , and glorify God . We are all , all out of our way ; but God deals not ...
... look for in the exposition of any Scripture , and the nearest way to the literal sense thereof , is , what may most deject and vilify man , what may most exalt , and glorify God . We are all , all out of our way ; but God deals not ...
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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 |
The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life; Volume 1 Henry Alford,John Donne No preview available - 2018 |
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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.