The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Hebert, and Sanderson, Volume 2Hilliard, Gray, 1832 |
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... minds of the common people such other venomous and turbulent principles , as were inconsistent with the safety of the church and state ; and these vented so daringly , that , beside the loss of life and limbs , the church and state were ...
... minds of the common people such other venomous and turbulent principles , as were inconsistent with the safety of the church and state ; and these vented so daringly , that , beside the loss of life and limbs , the church and state were ...
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... mind too much dejected by a sad sense of his sin ; to one that , by a too severe judging of himself , concludes that he wants faith , because he wants the comfortable assurance of it ; and his answer will be , 68 THE LIFE OF.
... mind too much dejected by a sad sense of his sin ; to one that , by a too severe judging of himself , concludes that he wants faith , because he wants the comfortable assurance of it ; and his answer will be , 68 THE LIFE OF.
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... Spencer , might af- ter his death justly say , " What admirable height of learning and depth of judgment dwelt in the lowly mind of this truly humble man ; great in all wise men's eyes except his own ; with what 76 THE LIFE OF.
... Spencer , might af- ter his death justly say , " What admirable height of learning and depth of judgment dwelt in the lowly mind of this truly humble man ; great in all wise men's eyes except his own ; with what 76 THE LIFE OF.
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... minds , whether of malice or covetousness , or wicked , blind zeal , it is uncertain , as soon as they were born , and their father dead , smothered them ; and , by con- veying the perfect copies , left unto us nothing but the old ...
... minds , whether of malice or covetousness , or wicked , blind zeal , it is uncertain , as soon as they were born , and their father dead , smothered them ; and , by con- veying the perfect copies , left unto us nothing but the old ...
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... mind what our own age , within a few years , upon better experience , hath already judged concerning the same . It may be remember- ed , that at first the greatest part of the learned in the land were either eagerly affected , or ...
... mind what our own age , within a few years , upon better experience , hath already judged concerning the same . It may be remember- ed , that at first the greatest part of the learned in the land were either eagerly affected , or ...
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Page 331 - Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: But their strong nerves at last must yield; They tame but one another still: Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds; Upon Death's purple altar now See, where the victor-victim bleeds: Your heads must come To the cold tomb; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom...
Page 33 - ... not an open enemy, that hath done me this dishonour : for then I could have borne it.
Page 105 - ... of God for any other reason, but to live to finish his three remaining books of Polity ; and then, Lord, let thy servant depart in peace;" which was his usual expression.
Page 161 - ... he had many conflicts with himself, whether he should return to the painted pleasures of a Courtlife, or betake himself to a study of Divinity, and enter into Sacred Orders, to which his dear mother had often persuaded him. These were such conflicts, as they only can know, that have endured them ; for ambitious desires, and the outward glory of this -world, are not easily laid aside ; but at last God inclined him to put on a resolution to serve at his altar.
Page 198 - The poor man blessed him for it, and he blessed the poor man : and was so like the good Samaritan, that he gave him money to refresh both himself and his horse, and told him that, " if he loved himself, he should be merciful to his beast.
Page 94 - And after these days Elisabeth his wife conceived; and she hid herself five months, saying, Thus hath the Lord done unto me in the days wherein he looked upon me, to take away my reproach among men.
Page 215 - Lord, forsake me not now my Strength faileth me, but grant me mercy for the merits of my Jesus. And now, Lord — Lord, now receive my soul.
Page 70 - That the way of nature, this the way of grace. The end of that way, salvation merited, presupposing the righteousness of men's works; their righteousness, a natural ability to do them ; that ability, the goodness of God which created them in such perfection; but the end of this way, salvation bestowed upon men as a gift, presupposing not their righteousness, but the forgiveness of their unrighteousness, justification; their justification, not their natural ability...
Page 35 - God's disfavor; for he was a virtuous man. I shall not yet give the like testimony of his wife, but leave the reader to judge by what follows. But to this house Mr. Hooker came so wet, so weary, and weather-beaten, that he was never known to express more passion than against a friend that dissuaded him from footing it to London, and for finding him no easier an horse, — supposing the horse trotted when he did not; — and at this time also, such a faintness and fear possessed him, that he would...
Page 33 - ... university, free from selfends, which the friendships of age usually are not. And in this sweet, this blessed, this spiritual amity, they went on for many years, and, as the holy Prophet saith, so " they took sweet counsel together, and walked in the house of God as friends.