Seventeenth Century Men of Latitude: Forerunners of the New TheologyC. Scribner's sons, 1908 - 199 pages |
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Page 9 - were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Page 31 - Neither to adore all things for Gospel which our betters tell us, but to bring all things to the true test; to know the reasons, try the authorities, and never rest ourselves, till we can take up that conclusion of the Psalmist, 'As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of our God.'
Page 138 - imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings, by pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report: as
Page 138 - knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report: as
Page 131 - Thus there are two books from whence I collect my divinity. Besides that written one of God, another of His servant, nature, that universal and public manuscript that lies expensed unto the eyes of all. Those that never saw Him in the one have discovered Him in the other.
Page 131 - I love to lose myself in a mystery; to pursue my reason to an 0 altitudo! Tis my solitary recreation to pose my apprehension with those involved enigmas and riddles of the Trinity, incarnation, and resurrection. I can answer all the objections of Satan and my rebellious reason with that odd resolution I learned of Tertullian, Cerium esl
Page 115 - me, and could'st thou not endure him one night, when he gave thee no trouble?" Upon this, saith the story, Abraham fetched him back again, and gave him hospitable entertainment and wise instruction. Go thou and do likewise, and thy charity will be rewarded by the God of Abraham. The
Page 128 - from Ecclesiasticus: Honour a physician with the honour due unto him; for the uses which you may have of him, for the Lord hath created him; for of the Most High cometh healing, and he shall receive honour of the king. The skill of the physician shall lift up his head, and in the sight of great men shall be in admiration.
Page 111 - long and level lawn, On which a dark hill, steep and high, Holds and charms the wandering eye; Deep are his feet in Towey's flood, His sides are clothed with waving wood; And ancient towers crown his brow, That cast an awful look below.
Page 60 - This presumptuous imposing of the senses of men upon the words of God, the special senses of men upon the general words of God, and laying them upon men's consciences together, under the equal penalty of death and damnation; this vain conceit that we can speak the things of God better than in the words of God;