Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, Band 1J. Miller, 1809 |
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... spirit of inde- pendence and a jealousy of regal encroachment , they refused to grant him supplies , without first insisting on the redress of grievances . Thus the opulence and independence of the Commons tended to produce a popular ...
... spirit of inde- pendence and a jealousy of regal encroachment , they refused to grant him supplies , without first insisting on the redress of grievances . Thus the opulence and independence of the Commons tended to produce a popular ...
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... spirit of the sectaries , blending itself with the love of liberty , we are indebted even for the freedom we now enjoy . It may be proper , here , to give a very brief account of the theological parties and their respective principles ...
... spirit of the sectaries , blending itself with the love of liberty , we are indebted even for the freedom we now enjoy . It may be proper , here , to give a very brief account of the theological parties and their respective principles ...
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... spirit of toleration . They permitted unrestrained secession , from numbers or dissentions . They punished obstinate error only by simple exclusion from their church . Marriage they considered as a civil contract , and to be resigned to ...
... spirit of toleration . They permitted unrestrained secession , from numbers or dissentions . They punished obstinate error only by simple exclusion from their church . Marriage they considered as a civil contract , and to be resigned to ...
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... spirit of their church discipline uniting with the republican principles which eventually predomi- nated in the state . The Independents solicited , in the assembly at Westminster , 1645 , an indul gent toleration , and which was ...
... spirit of their church discipline uniting with the republican principles which eventually predomi- nated in the state . The Independents solicited , in the assembly at Westminster , 1645 , an indul gent toleration , and which was ...
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... spirit of antiquity was dif- fused among them ; and the progress of the strug- gle called into action some of the highest minds which have appeared in this or in any age or nation . Among these the great author , whose xx.i INTRODUCTION .
... spirit of antiquity was dif- fused among them ; and the progress of the strug- gle called into action some of the highest minds which have appeared in this or in any age or nation . Among these the great author , whose xx.i INTRODUCTION .
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Seite 317 - 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.
Seite 284 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Seite 295 - He that can • apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he. is the true warfaring Christian.
Seite 148 - At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, when all Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
Seite 76 - I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite...
Seite 320 - 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...
Seite 166 - If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Seite 58 - I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
Seite 329 - The Tenure Of Kings And Magistrates: Proving, That it is Lawful!, and hath been held so through all Ages, for any, who have the Power, to call to account a Tyrant, or wicked King, and after due conviction, to depose, and put him to death; if the ordinary Magistrate have neglected, or deny'd to doe it.
Seite 269 - But here the main skill and groundwork will be, to temper them such lectures and explanations upon every opportunity, as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, enflamed with the study of learning, and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men, and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.