He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. REMARKS ON JOHNSON'S LIFE OF MILTON. - Page 232by Francis Blackburne - 1780 - 381 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Mudie - 1889 - 72 pages
...and consider vice, with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better — he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, nnexercised, that never seeks her adversary,... | |
| Thomas Hobbes - 1889 - 932 pages
...apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never... | |
| Gallus Thomann - 1889 - 72 pages
...apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. / cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue uhexercised and uribreathed, that never... | |
| John Milton - 1889 - 468 pages
...apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring . Christian. I cannot prajse_aJ'"Ei>i'"' n"d dni^gred virtue un-^-A " y > -uubrcaihcd-,- that never... | |
| Philip Sidney - 1890 - 210 pages
...apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never... | |
| Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1890 - 516 pages
...and consider Vice, with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly » better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never... | |
| Charles John Smith - 1890 - 802 pages
...apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better — he is the true way-faring Christian." — Muro». As abstain regards mainly an external object witli which we refuse... | |
| 1891 - 556 pages
...apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true way-faring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbrcatlied... | |
| Lewis Beals Fisher - 1894 - 92 pages
...apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never... | |
| 1894 - 788 pages
...and consider vice with all her baits and seeming1 pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed,... | |
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