The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Band 4

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J. Johnson, 1806

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Seite 265 - Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall; and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
Seite 265 - 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...
Seite 268 - Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded : and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
Seite 264 - 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 luxury of his court...
Seite 260 - If any man shall take away from the words," &c. With good and religious reason therefore all protestant churches with one consent, and particularly the church of England in her thirty-nine articles, art. 6th, 19ih, 20th, 21st, and elsewhere, maintain these two points, as the main principles of true religion; that the rule of true religion is the word of God only: and that their faith ought not to be an implicit faith, that is to believe, though as the church believes, against or without express authority...
Seite 260 - According to that of St. Paul, " Though we or an angel from Heaven preach any other gospel unto you, than that which we have preached unto you, let him be anathema, or accursed.
Seite 265 - Popery, as being idolatrous, is not to be tolerated either in public or private; it must be now thought how to remove it, and hinder the growth thereof, I mean in our natives, and not foreigners, privileged by the law of nations.
Seite 82 - ... wrong, and oppression: foul and horrid deeds committed daily, or maintained, in secret or in open. Some who had been called from shops and warehouses, without other merit, to sit in supreme councils and committees, (as their breeding was) fell to huckster the commonwealth.
Seite 86 - ... in their own hands : neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely ; what good laws are •wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.
Seite 266 - Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach ! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, And there is no breath at all in the midst of it.

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