Horae Sabbaticae, Band 1

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Macmillan & Company, 1892
 

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Seite 119 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Seite 160 - ... the church of another age. Traditive interpretations of scripture are pretended ; but there are few or none to be found. No tradition, but only of scripture, can derive itself from the fountain, but may be plainly proved...
Seite 120 - That which doth assign unto each thing the kind, that which doth moderate the force and power, that which doth appoint the form and measure, of working, the same we term a law.
Seite 159 - ... matter of faith and religion, neither can they with coherence to their own grounds believe it...
Seite 120 - ... is author; only the works and operations of God have him both for their worker and for the law whereby they are wrought. The being of God is a kind of law to his working; for that perfection which God is giveth perfection to that he doth.
Seite 120 - And for this cause there is in all things an appetite or desire whereby they incline to something which they may be, and, when they are it, they shall be perfecter than now they are.
Seite 125 - be they never so great and reverend are to yield unto Reason ; the weight whereof is no whit prejudiced by the simplicity of his person which doth allege it, but being found to be sound and good, the bare opinion of men to the contrary must of necessity stoop and give place.
Seite 133 - The Parliament of England together with the Convocation annexed thereunto is that whereupon the very essence of all government within this kingdom doth depend. It is even the body of the whole Realm...
Seite 125 - ... the mind of man desireth evermore to know the truth according to the most infallible certainty which the nature of things can yield. The greatest assurance generally with all men is that which we have by plain aspect and intuitive beholding. Where we cannot attain unto this, there what appeareth to be true by strong and invincible demonstration, such as wherein it is not by any way possible to be deceived, thereunto the mind doth necessarily assent, neither is it in the choice thereof to do otherwise....
Seite 307 - ... that the king should immediately cause the woman to be sent to the Tower, and to be cast into a dungeon, under so strict a guard, that no person living should be admitted to come to her; and then that an act of parliament should be immediately passed for the cutting off her head, to which he would not only give his consent, but would very willingly be the first man that should propose it...

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