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... grounds of Christianity , the Apostles Creed , the Lord's Prayer and Ten Commandments . These may be more truly than Gorran his Postills termed aurea fundamenta , which they go about to overthrow and cast down , and when they have done ...
... grounds of Christianity , the Apostles Creed , the Lord's Prayer and Ten Commandments . These may be more truly than Gorran his Postills termed aurea fundamenta , which they go about to overthrow and cast down , and when they have done ...
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... ground a true history , by relying on the printed pam- phlets in our days , which passed the press whilst it was without controul , obliged me to all the pains and charge I have been at for many years together , to make a great ...
... ground a true history , by relying on the printed pam- phlets in our days , which passed the press whilst it was without controul , obliged me to all the pains and charge I have been at for many years together , to make a great ...
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... ground : and every held the youth from him , and about one hun- dred of them coming about his Lordship hem- med him in , so that he could not stir , and then all of them with a loud voice cried out No Bishops ! and so let his Lordship ...
... ground : and every held the youth from him , and about one hun- dred of them coming about his Lordship hem- med him in , so that he could not stir , and then all of them with a loud voice cried out No Bishops ! and so let his Lordship ...
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... ground , but was immediately taken up by some of the leading men of the Parliament , who made use of it as a foundation for their usurped coordinacy of authority , till at the last , having ruined him by force of arms , which they ...
... ground , but was immediately taken up by some of the leading men of the Parliament , who made use of it as a foundation for their usurped coordinacy of authority , till at the last , having ruined him by force of arms , which they ...
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... ground of such a war as this is the affections of the people ; and upon this both armies are built and kept up ; we will therefore guess which of them hath the surest foundation . It hath been observed the Parliament hath made little ...
... ground of such a war as this is the affections of the people ; and upon this both armies are built and kept up ; we will therefore guess which of them hath the surest foundation . It hath been observed the Parliament hath made little ...
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Anatomy of Melancholy ancient appear ARCHBISHOP PARKER Arminianism better Bishop body called cause Christ Christian Church Church of England Church of Rome Clergy cloth common conscience death divine doctrine doth Elmete England English faith fashion fear George Fox give God's grace hand hath heard heart Heaven Henry Henry VII holy honour HORACE WALPOLE horse Ibid Jesuits Joseph Mede King kingdom labour Lady Lailoken land learning liberty live Loidis London Lord matter means ment mind nature never Nottinghamshire observed opinion Papists parish persons poor Pope prayers preached Prince Puritans quæ Quakers quod reason reign religion Saint saith says Scripture seems Sermons servants shew sort soul speak spirit things THOMAS thou thought tion town tree truth unto virtue whereof whole women words
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Page 240 - Les sciences ont deux extrémités qui se touchent: la première est la pure ignorance naturelle, où se trouvent tous les hommes en naissant. L'autre extrémité est celle où arrivent les grandes âmes, qui, ayant parcouru tout ce que les hommes peuvent savoir, trouvent qu'ils ne savent rien, et se rencontrent en cette même ignorance d'où ils étaient partis; mais c'est une ignorance savante qui se connaît.
Page 400 - People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken. I know nothing that can be best taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chymistry by lectures. — You might teach making of shoes by lectures...
Page 342 - I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service.
Page 49 - Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition : who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself
Page 227 - If I climb up into heaven, thou art there: If I go down to hell, thou art there also. If I take the wings of the morning, and remain in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there also shall thy hand lead me, And thy right hand shall hold me.
Page 294 - That he thought it not indifferent so to order the matter; for,' said he, 'poor men's children are many times endued with more singular gifts of nature, which are also the gifts of God, as, with eloquence, memory, apt pronunciation, sobriety, and such like ; and also commonly more apt to apply their study, than is the gentleman's son, delicately educated.
Page 233 - Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools : for they consider not that they do evil.
Page 187 - A most incomparable delight to build castles in the air, to go smiling to themselves, acting an infinite variety of parts, which they suppose, and strongly imagine, they act, or that they see done.
Page 187 - ... winding and unwinding themselves as so many clocks, and still pleasing their humours, until at last the...
Page 108 - The judge thought the fellow was mad: but after some conference with some of the justices, they agreed to indict him ; and so they did of several felonious actions ; to all of which he heartily confessed guilty, and so was hanged with his wife at the same time.