The Life of the Learned and Pious Dr. Henry More: Late Fellow of Christ's College in Cambridge. To which are Annexed Divers Philosophical Poems and HymnsPublished and sold by The Theosophical Publishing Society, 1911 - 310 pages |
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Page iii - For she is the brightness of the everlasting light, the unspotted mirror of the power of God, and the image of his goodness.
Page 59 - I being bred up, to the almost 14th year of my Age, under Parents and a Master that were great Calvinists (but withal very pious and good ones...
Page 302 - I will say, though it be boasting of myself, and 4 1 speak as a fool,' that, next to the Bible and St. Augustine, no book hath ever come into my hands whence I have learnt, or would wish to learn, more of what God and Christ, and man, and all things, are.
Page 231 - For I was a witty child, and had a good spirit. Yea, rather, being good, I came into a body undefiled.
Page 140 - But he who puts his hand to the plough and looks back is not fit for the kingdom of Labour, any more than he is fit for the kingdom of God.
Page 66 - perfect even as our Father which is in Heaven is perfect.
Page 250 - Farre have I clambred in my mind But nought so great as love I find : Deep-searching wit, mount-moving might, Are nought compar'd to that great spright.
Page 308 - At Cambridge he joined with those who studied to propagate better thoughts, to take men off from being in parties or from narrow notions, from superstitious conceits and a fierceness about opinions.
Page 90 - God doth not ride me as a horse, and guide me I know not whither my self; but converseth with me as a friend ; and speaks to me in such a dialect as I understand fully, and can make others understand, that have not made...
Page 90 - This is to become deiform, to be thus suspended (not by imagination, but by union of life, joining centres with God) and by a sensible touch to be held up from the clotty dark personality of this compacted body. Here is love, here is freedom, here is justice and equity in the superessential causes of them. He that is here looks upon all things as one, and on himself, if he can then mind himself, as a part of the whole.