 The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united...  The Prose Works of John Milton - Page 159by John Milton - 1845Full view - About this book
 | Max Ring - Great Britain - 1868 - 330 pages
...knowledge to love Him, to imitate Him, to be like Him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which, being united to the heavenly grace...faith, makes up the highest perfection. But because understanding cannot in this body found itself but on sensible things, nor arrive so clearly to the... | |
 | Robert Hebert Quick - Education - 1868 - 360 pages
...knowledge to love Him, to imitate Him, to be like Him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection. But because'our understanding cannot in this body found itself but on sensible things, nor arrive so clearly... | |
 | United States. Department of Education (1867-1868) - Education - 1868 - 990 pages
...knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection. • ' JOHN M 1 1 i • . -.. First, there must precede a way how to discern the natural inclinations... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - Education - 1868 - 930 pages
...knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes np the highest perfection. JOHN MILTOS. First, there must precede a way how to discern the natural... | |
 | John Mulryan - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 198 pages
...him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the neerest by possessing our souls of true vertue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection," 5 - a formulation akin to so many similar pronouncements that call to life a wellknown Neoplatonic... | |
 | John Milton - Fiction - 1985 - 468 pages
...widely known through Hartlib's abstract in 1639. may the nearest by possessing our souls of true vertue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection. 5 But because our understanding cannot in this body found it self but on sensible things, nor arrive... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1986 - 260 pages
...him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the neerest by possessing our souls of true vertue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection. (4:277) But the opening lines of PL dwell much less on salvation than on sin. The relative emphasis... | |
 | John S. Mebane - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 340 pages
...him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the neerest by possessing our souls of true vertue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection."21 A few paragraphs later in Milton's essay we learn what the practical consequences of... | |
 | Carla Mazzio - Civilization, Modern - 2000 - 432 pages
...parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him. . . . But because our understanding cannot in this body...arrive so clearly to the knowledge of God and things visible as by orderly conning over the visible and inferior creature, the same method is necessarily... | |
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