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... Souls of Beasts 3. Not easy to be good . 4. Wit . XVIII . JOHN TILLOTSON . 1630-1694 I. The Uncertainty of Earthly Happiness 2. The Dignity of Man . 4. The Providence of God 5. Public and Private Life 248 251 254 · 255 257 260 261 263 ...
... Souls of Beasts 3. Not easy to be good . 4. Wit . XVIII . JOHN TILLOTSON . 1630-1694 I. The Uncertainty of Earthly Happiness 2. The Dignity of Man . 4. The Providence of God 5. Public and Private Life 248 251 254 · 255 257 260 261 263 ...
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... souls , that he will accept them at any time and upon any conditions ; interrupting by his vigilant endeavours all offer of timeful return towards God , by laying those great blocks of rugged poverty and despised contempt in the narrow ...
... souls , that he will accept them at any time and upon any conditions ; interrupting by his vigilant endeavours all offer of timeful return towards God , by laying those great blocks of rugged poverty and despised contempt in the narrow ...
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... soul that doeth evil . ' Good doth follow unto all things by observing the course of their nature , and on the contrary side evil by not observing it ; but not unto natural agents that good which we call Reward , not that evil which we ...
... soul that doeth evil . ' Good doth follow unto all things by observing the course of their nature , and on the contrary side evil by not observing it ; but not unto natural agents that good which we call Reward , not that evil which we ...
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... soul itself by nature is or hath in it harmony . A thing which delighteth all ages and beseemeth all states ; a thing as seasonable in grief as in joy ; as decent being added unto actions of greatest weight and solemnity , And as being ...
... soul itself by nature is or hath in it harmony . A thing which delighteth all ages and beseemeth all states ; a thing as seasonable in grief as in joy ; as decent being added unto actions of greatest weight and solemnity , And as being ...
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... souls , is by a native puissance and efficacy greatly available to bring to a perfect temper whatsoever is there troubled , apt as well to quicken the spirits as to allay that which is too eager , sovereign against melancholy and ...
... souls , is by a native puissance and efficacy greatly available to bring to a perfect temper whatsoever is there troubled , apt as well to quicken the spirits as to allay that which is too eager , sovereign against melancholy and ...
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Página 198 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Página 204 - 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...
Página 150 - Oblivion is not to be hired; the greater part must be content to be as though they had not been; to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man.
Página 150 - Now, since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and, in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and specious buildings above it, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests...
Página 4 - He had walk for a hundred sheep; and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able, and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went unto Blackheath field.
Página 188 - I am persuaded, his power and interest, at that time, was greater to do, good or hurt, than any man's in the kingdom, or than any man of his rank hath had in any time : for his reputation of honesty was universal, and his affections seemed so publicly guided, that no corrupt or private ends could bias them.
Página 208 - Now once again by all concurrence of signs, and by the general instinct of holy and devout men, as they daily and solemnly express their thoughts, God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in his church, even to the reforming of reformation itself; what does he then but reveal himself to his servants, and as his mani>er is, first to his Englishmen...
Página 47 - It was a high speech of Seneca, after the manner of the Stoics, that the good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired: "Bona rerum secundarum optabilia, adversarum mirabilia.
Página 206 - For who knows not that truth is strong, next to the Almighty ; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious, those are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power...
Página 53 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all. than such an opinion as is unworthy of Him; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely: and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose: