Protestant Union: A Treatise of True Religion, Heresy, Schism, Toleration, and what Best Means May be Used Against the Spread of Popery ; to which is Prefixed a Preface on Milton's Religious Principals, and Unimpeachable SincerityF. and C. Rivington, 1826 - 56 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 8
Page xl
... , " and especially of their boasted Reformation , to " seize into their hands , or not unwillingly to accept ( beside one , sometimes two or more of the best 66 66 livings ) collegiate masterships in the Universities , " xl PREFACE .
... , " and especially of their boasted Reformation , to " seize into their hands , or not unwillingly to accept ( beside one , sometimes two or more of the best 66 66 livings ) collegiate masterships in the Universities , " xl PREFACE .
Page 9
... sometimes employed with great beauty , but sometimes to the obscuring of the sense . In the present instance , the parenthesis separates the words a C Father , Son , and Holy Ghost , according to OF TRUE RELIGION . 9.
... sometimes employed with great beauty , but sometimes to the obscuring of the sense . In the present instance , the parenthesis separates the words a C Father , Son , and Holy Ghost , according to OF TRUE RELIGION . 9.
Page 13
... sometimes here among us , the one persecutes the other upon every slight pretence . But he is wont to say , he enjoins only thingsindifferent . Let them be so still ; who gave him authority to change their nature by enjoining them ? if ...
... sometimes here among us , the one persecutes the other upon every slight pretence . But he is wont to say , he enjoins only thingsindifferent . Let them be so still ; who gave him authority to change their nature by enjoining them ? if ...
Page 16
... sometimes interdicts to whole nations the public worship of God , shutting up their churches : and was wont to drain away greatest part of the wealth of this then miserable land , as part of his patrimony , to maintain the pride and ...
... sometimes interdicts to whole nations the public worship of God , shutting up their churches : and was wont to drain away greatest part of the wealth of this then miserable land , as part of his patrimony , to maintain the pride and ...
Page 35
... sometimes for a great while , and the words so jostled out of their natural order , that it requires often a great deal of pains and skill to restore them to that order ; and , in short , the sentence is made little better than a riddle ...
... sometimes for a great while , and the words so jostled out of their natural order , that it requires often a great deal of pains and skill to restore them to that order ; and , in short , the sentence is made little better than a riddle ...
Other editions - View all
Protestant Union: A Treatise of True Religion, Heresy, Schism, Toleration ... John Milton No preview available - 2019 |
Protestant Union: A Treatise of True Religion, Heresy, Schism, Toleration ... Thomas Burgess,John Milton No preview available - 2023 |
Common terms and phrases
Anabaptists ancient appears Arians and Socinians Arminians beauty Bible Bishop Brownists Calvinists Christ Christian Church of England Church of Rome common adversary composition Comus condemn council created your leader Cromwell Deborah Milton Deity dispute Doctrina Christiana elegiac ellipsis English enim envy errour essence essentia expressed Faithful Shepherdess Father following Treatise forma genius gospel Greek Growth of Popery hath heresy heretic Holy Spirit Horace idolatry implicit faith JOHN MILTON language Latin laws of heaven learned liberty Long Parliament means opinions orthodoxy Pandæmonium papist Paradise Lost Paradise Regained parenthesis passage patriam period plain doctrine poems profess prose protestant quæ quam quod quoted Reformation religious principles Richard Cromwell Romish Salmasius Satan's says Schism scripture second book sects sense sentence speech style Symmons thing thought throne tion tolerate Treatise of True Trinitarian Trinity True Religion truth UNIMPEACHABLE SINCERITY verse virtue whole words writings
Popular passages
Page 31 - Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Page 22 - Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences, contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned ; and avoid them. For they that are such, serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly ; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
Page 24 - I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
Page 19 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them : for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God...
Page 11 - Scripture and the apostolic creed ; as for terms of trinity, triniunity, co-essentiality, tripersonality, and the like, they reject them as scholastic notions, not to be found in Scripture, which by a general protestant maxim is plain and perspicuous abundantly to explain its own meaning in the properest words, belonging to so high a matter, and so necessary to be known ; a mystery indeed in their sophistic subtleties, but in Scripture a plain doctrine.
Page 53 - I should much commend the tragical part, if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain Doric delicacy in your songs and odes, whereunto I must plainly confess to have seen yet nothing parallel in our language : Ipsa mollities.
Page xl - ... public salary) wanted not boldness, to the ignominy and scandal of their pastor-like profession, and especially of their boasted reformation, to seize into their hands, or not .unwillingly to accept (besides one, sometimes two or more of the best livings) collegiate masterships in the universities. rich lectures in the city, setting sail to all winds that might blow gain into their covetous bosoms...
Page 40 - Main reason to persuade immediate war Did not dissuade me most, and seem to cast Ominous conjecture on the whole success,* When he who most excels in fact...
Page 18 - Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery ? for they say, The Lord seeth us not ; the Lord hath forsaken the earth.
Page 50 - Let there be light, said GOD, and forthwith light Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure, Sprung from the deep, and from her native east To journey through the...