 | Wendy Olmsted - 2008 - 313 pages
...distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian ... Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity...purifies us is triall, and triall is by what is contrary' (Areopagitica, CPWII.514-15). Adam and Eve have not yet fallen, but Paradise Lost presents temptation... | |
 | John Witte - 2007 - 25 pages
...out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly, we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.167 "Truth and understanding," then, "are not such wares as... | |
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I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence... 
