The Harleian Miscellany, Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as Well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford's Library, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes, Volume 7

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R. Dutton, 1810 - Great Britain

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Page 423 - And God made the firmament, and divided the waters¿ which were under the firmament, from the waters which were above the firmament.' And David saith, Psal. xxix. 10, That ‘the Lord sitteth upon the flood;' that is, upon the orb of the waters; and where he exciteth the creatures to laud the Lord, he speaketh thus, Psal. cxlviii. 4, ‘ Praise him ye heavens of heavens, and
Page 322 - Why? SECT. V. HERE it is that we must wholly stoop and humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God, and answer with the Apostle, 0 the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God,
Page 311 - things worthy ¿ stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes : For unto whom much ‘ is given, of him shall be much required, and to whom men have ‘committed much, of him
Page 309 - were the bad people that bound themselves with a curse, that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul that preached the gospel; this is nothing at all that Christians should swear.
Page 105 - little foxes, that spoil. the vines, for our vines have tender grapes.” Never was there such an honourable, ingenious, and profitable mystery and science in the world so basely intruded upon, and
Page 1 - have prescribed: to turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob
Page 210 - to die with peace at home, and triumph abroad; to be buried among kings, and with more than regal solemnity; and to leave a name behind him, not to be extinguished, but with the whole world, which, as it is now too little for his praises,
Page 101 - return in duty to your lawful native sovereign, fall to your honest vocations; ‘fear God and the king, and meddle not with them that are given to change';
Page 309 - out of the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. And the bishop often brings the I Cor. xv. 31. ‘By our rejoicing which I
Page 309 - A daily deluge over them does boil: The earth and water play at level-coil. The fish oft-times the burgher dispossest, And sat not as a meat, but as a guest: And oft the Tritons and the sea-nymphs saw Whole sholes of Dutch serv'd up for

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