 We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love, or gift, which is of force. God therefore left him free, set before him a provoking object, ever almost in his eyes. Herein consisted his merit, herein the right of his reward, the praise of his abstinence.  Areopagitica - Page 21by John Milton - 1898 - 159 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1884 - 304 pages
...artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions.1 We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love, or gift, which is of force ; God therefore...reward, the praise of his abstinence. Wherefore did he create passions within us, pleasures 1 Puppet-shows. — ED. round about us, but that these rightly... | |
 | Language Arts & Disciplines - 1886 - 330 pages
...mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions. We ourselves esteem not of that obedience or love or gift which is of force : God therefore...reward, the praise of his abstinence. Wherefore did He create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions. We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, che aP 7 create passions within ns, pleasures round about ns, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English literature - 1887 - 312 pages
...choosing ; he had been else a ' mere artificial Adam. We ourselves esteem ' not of that obedience a love or gift which ' is of force. God therefore left...right of his reward, the praise of his ' abstinence.' So that according to Milton even Eden was a state of trial. As an author, Milton's protest has great... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English literature - 1887 - 314 pages
...but choosing ; he had been else a mere artificial Adam. We ourselves esteem not of that obedience a love or gift which is of force. God therefore left...right of his reward, the praise of his abstinence.' So that according to Milton even Eden was a state of trial. As an author, Milton's protest has great... | |
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1887 - 564 pages
...mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions. We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love, or gift, which is of force ; God therefore...consisted his merit, herein the right of his reward, th« praise of his abstinence.' Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing Prose Works, II. 74.... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Political science - 1889 - 932 pages
...mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions. We ourselves esteem not of that obedience or love or gift which is of force : God therefore...reward, the praise of his abstinence. Wherefore did He create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients... | |
 | John Milton - English prose literature - 1889 - 464 pages
...mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions. We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love, or gift, which is of force ; God therefore...reward, the praise of his abstinence. Wherefore did he create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients... | |
 | John Mudie - Temperance - 1889 - 72 pages
...He gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing. We ourselves esteem not that obedience, or love, or gift which is of force ; God, therefore,...before him a provoking object, ever almost in his eyes. It was for him to act aright ; herein consisted his merit, herein the right of his reward, the praise... | |
 | AUGUSTINE BIRRELL - 1891 - 350 pages
...but choosing; he had been else a mere artificial Adam. We ourselves esteem not of that obedience a love or gift which is of force. God therefore left...right of his reward, the praise of his abstinence.' So that according to Milton even Eden was a state of trial. As an author, Milton's protest has great... | |
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