Lives of Dr. John Donne; Sir Henry Wotton; Mr. Richard Hooker; Mr. George Herbert; and Dr. Robert Sanderson |
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... said Walton ; " in your Feast of Boughs , they may conceive , we are so overshadowed throughout , that the parfon is more seen than his congregation , and this fometimes invisible to its old acquaintance , who may wander in the fearch ...
... said Walton ; " in your Feast of Boughs , they may conceive , we are so overshadowed throughout , that the parfon is more seen than his congregation , and this fometimes invisible to its old acquaintance , who may wander in the fearch ...
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... said , ' would be a great help and advantage to a cafuift , was a convenient knowledge of the nature and obligation of laws in general : to know what a law is ; what a natural and positive law ; what's " required to the Latio ...
... said , ' would be a great help and advantage to a cafuift , was a convenient knowledge of the nature and obligation of laws in general : to know what a law is ; what a natural and positive law ; what's " required to the Latio ...
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... said to the contrary . " ( Dr. Donne's Sermon at Paul's Cross , March 24 , 1616. ) " Wherein this conclufion is evicted , that thofe who are of the Roman religion in this kingdom , may or ought to take the oath of allegiance , 1610 ...
... said to the contrary . " ( Dr. Donne's Sermon at Paul's Cross , March 24 , 1616. ) " Wherein this conclufion is evicted , that thofe who are of the Roman religion in this kingdom , may or ought to take the oath of allegiance , 1610 ...
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... said to his father , " Of those whom thou haft given me have I not loft one . ” " Remember me thus , you that stay in this kingdome of peace , where no fword is drawn " but the fword of justice , as I fhall remember you in those ...
... said to his father , " Of those whom thou haft given me have I not loft one . ” " Remember me thus , you that stay in this kingdome of peace , where no fword is drawn " but the fword of justice , as I fhall remember you in those ...
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... said , " Make his days few , " and refpecting his bodily health , " evil " too ; and of this there were many vifible figns . At his going " he left his friends of Lincoln's Inn , and they him with many reluctations ; for though he could ...
... said , " Make his days few , " and refpecting his bodily health , " evil " too ; and of this there were many vifible figns . At his going " he left his friends of Lincoln's Inn , and they him with many reluctations ; for though he could ...
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Page 255 - I have lived to see this world is made up of perturbations ; and I have been long preparing to leave it, and gathering comfort for the dreadful hour of making my account with God, which I now apprehend to be near...
Page 318 - Ah ! my dear God, though I am clean forgot, Let me not love Thee, if I love Thee not.
Page 314 - Bohemia. In this place of orator our George Herbert continued eight years, and managed it with as becoming and grave a gaiety as any had ever before or since his time. For he had acquired great learning, and was blest with a high fancy, a civil and sharp wit, and with a natural elegance both in his behaviour, his tongue, and his pen.
Page 252 - Thus hath the Lord done unto me in the days wherein he looked upon me, to take away my reproach among men.
Page 320 - ... sacred name of priest contemptible, yet I will labour to make it honourable, by consecrating all my learning, and all my poor abilities, to advance the glory of that God that gave them ; knowing that I can never do too much for him that hath done so much for me as to make me a Christian. And I will labour to be like my Saviour, by making humility lovely in the eyes of all men, and by following the merciful and meek example of my dear Jesus.
Page 351 - God, so far to trust thy promise, as to return them back to thee ; and by thy grace I will do so, in distributing them to any of thy poor members that are in distress, or do but bear the image of Jesus, my Master. Sir...
Page 68 - a book, in which, by declaring his own spiritual conflicts, he hath comforted and raised many a dejected and discomposed soul, and charmed them into sweet and quiet thoughts ; a book, by the frequent reading whereof, and the assistance of that spirit that seemed to inspire the author, the reader may attain habits of peace and piety, and...
Page 349 - Clergy especially which preach temperance, would avoid surfeiting and take all occasions to express a visible humility and charity in their lives; for this would force a love and an imitation, and an unfeigned reverence from all that knew them to be such." (And for proof of this, we need no other testimony than the life and death of Dr Lake, late Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells.) "This," said Mr Herbert, "would be a cure for the wickedness and growing Atheism of our age.
Page 73 - ORIENS. And now, having brought him through the many labyrinths and perplexities of a various life, even to the gates of death and the grave, my desire is, he may rest till I have told my reader, that I have seen many pictures of him, in several habits, and at several ages, and in several postures. And I now mention this, because I have seen one picture of him, drawn by a curious...
Page 320 - And though the iniquity of the late times have made clergymen meanly valued, and the sacred name of priest contemptible ; yet I will labour to make it honourable, by consecrating all my learning, and all my poor abilities to advance the glory of that God that gave them ; knowing that I can never do too much for him, that hath done so much for me, as to make me a Christian.