The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1John W. Moore [Printed by King & Baird], 1847 |
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... consent for separation . The treatise was soon followed by The Judg- ment of Martin Bucer Concerning Divorce , and in the next year by Tetrachordon and Colasterion , the last being a reply to an anonymous assailant . He exhibited in no ...
... consent for separation . The treatise was soon followed by The Judg- ment of Martin Bucer Concerning Divorce , and in the next year by Tetrachordon and Colasterion , the last being a reply to an anonymous assailant . He exhibited in no ...
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... consent to the rest of the churches abroad , at this time especially when the kingdom is in a good propensity thereto , and all men in prayers , in hopes , or in dis- putes , either for or against it . Yet I will not insist on that ...
... consent to the rest of the churches abroad , at this time especially when the kingdom is in a good propensity thereto , and all men in prayers , in hopes , or in dis- putes , either for or against it . Yet I will not insist on that ...
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... consent of the people is so express in Cyprian , and so often to be met with , that to cite each place at large , were to translate a good part of the volume ; there- fore touching the chief passages , I refer the rest to whom so list ...
... consent of the people is so express in Cyprian , and so often to be met with , that to cite each place at large , were to translate a good part of the volume ; there- fore touching the chief passages , I refer the rest to whom so list ...
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... consent from all places thereabout , maugre all the opposition that the bishops could make . Thus went matters of the church almost 400 years after Christ , and very probably far lower : for Nicephorus Phocas the Greek emperor , whose ...
... consent from all places thereabout , maugre all the opposition that the bishops could make . Thus went matters of the church almost 400 years after Christ , and very probably far lower : for Nicephorus Phocas the Greek emperor , whose ...
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... consent and sort as well together without any rupture in the state , as Christians and freeholders . But as for honour , that ought indeed to be different and dis- tinct , as either office looks a several way ; the minister whose ...
... consent and sort as well together without any rupture in the state , as Christians and freeholders . But as for honour , that ought indeed to be different and dis- tinct , as either office looks a several way ; the minister whose ...
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Page 174 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Page 201 - WHEN a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her : then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Page 56 - And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.
Page 188 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page 341 - For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
Page 186 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Page 70 - The Scripture also affords us a divine pastoral drama in the Song of Solomon, consisting of two persons, and a double chorus, as Origen rightly judges. Ami the Apocalypse of St. John is the majestic image of a high and stately tragedy, shutting up and intermingling her solemn scenes and acts with a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies: and this my opinion the grave authority of Pareus, commenting that book, is sufficient to confirm.
Page 322 - Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish aught from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.
Page 320 - And he answered and said unto them, "Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Page viii - In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.