The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1

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H. Hooker, 1845
 

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Page i - THOU SHOULDST BE LIVING AT THIS HOUR. RETURN TO US AGAIN, AND GIVE US MANNERS, VIRTUE, FREEDOM, POWER. THY SOUL WAS LIKE A STAR, AND DWELT APART THOU HADST A VOICE, WHOSE SOUND WAS LIKE THE SEA : PURE AS THE NAKED HEAVENS, MAJESTIC, FREE ', SO DIDST THOU TRAVEL ON LIFE'S COMMON WAY,
Page 528 - bear: behold thou hast driven me this day from the face of the earth, and from thy face shall I be hid." " And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding bitter cry, and said, Bless me, even me also,
Page 528 - And Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord ; yet honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people." " And when Ahab heard the -words of Elijah, he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
Page 279 - Hither may be added, that the Holy Spirit grants desertion to be a cause of divorce, in those answers given to the Corinthians concerning a brother or sister deserted by a misbeliever. "If he depart, let him depart; a brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases.
Page 287 - him ; male and female created he them, 28. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, &c. GENESIS ii. 18. And the Lord God said, It is not good that man should be alone, I mil make him a help meet for him.
Page 183 - have the name to be religious, fain he would bear up with his neighbours in that. What does he therefore, but resolves to give over toiling, and to find himself out some factor, to whose care and credit he may commit the whole managing of his religious aflairs; some divine of note and estimation
Page vii - not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, but by devout prayer to the eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of
Page xi - Dark in light, exposed Within doors or without : still as a fool In power of others, never in my own : Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. Oh dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day
Page 339 - in expectation of gaining a soul ; when that ceases, we know God hath put an enmity between the seed of the woman, and the seed of the serpent. Neither should we "love them that hate the Lord," as the prophet told Jehoshaphat, 2
Page 528 - ray father; yet found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." Heb. xii. " And Balaam said, Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his." " And Pharaoh said to Moses, The Lord is righteous, I and my people are wicked ; I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you."

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