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... god , or other spirit ; or else that they themselves were of a higher nature than mere mortals , that their laws ... gods which were forbidden by the laws . Thirdly , to prescribe ceremonies , supplications , sacrifices , and festivals ...
... god , or other spirit ; or else that they themselves were of a higher nature than mere mortals , that their laws ... gods which were forbidden by the laws . Thirdly , to prescribe ceremonies , supplications , sacrifices , and festivals ...
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... God Himself , by supernatural revelation , planted religion ; there He also made to Himself a peculiar kingdom ; and gave laws not only of behaviour towards Himself , but also towards one another ; and thereby in the kingdom of God ...
... God Himself , by supernatural revelation , planted religion ; there He also made to Himself a peculiar kingdom ; and gave laws not only of behaviour towards Himself , but also towards one another ; and thereby in the kingdom of God ...
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... God , and fear as a revenger of their perfidy . All therefore that can be done between two men not subject to civil power , is to put one another to swear by the God he feareth , which " swearing , " or " oath , " is " a form of speech ...
... God , and fear as a revenger of their perfidy . All therefore that can be done between two men not subject to civil power , is to put one another to swear by the God he feareth , which " swearing , " or " oath , " is " a form of speech ...
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... gods of the heathen could not be personated . The true God may be personated . As He was , first , by Moses ; who governed the Israelites , that were not his , but God's people , not in his own name , with hoc dicit Moses ; but in God's ...
... gods of the heathen could not be personated . The true God may be personated . As He was , first , by Moses ; who governed the Israelites , that were not his , but God's people , not in his own name , with hoc dicit Moses ; but in God's ...
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... God's person ; which none doth but God's lieutenant , who hath the sovereignty under God . But this pretence of covenant with God , is so evident a lie , even in the pretenders ' own consciences , that it is not only an act of an unjust ...
... God's person ; which none doth but God's lieutenant , who hath the sovereignty under God . But this pretence of covenant with God , is so evident a lie , even in the pretenders ' own consciences , that it is not only an act of an unjust ...
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Page 312 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Page 284 - Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all ? Why are they then baptized for the dead?
Page 197 - Hereby know ye the Spirit of God : Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God : and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come ; and even now already is it in the world.
Page 229 - And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church : but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
Page 84 - This done, the multitude so united in one person is called a "commonwealth," in Latin civitas. This is the generation of that great "leviathan," or, rather, to speak more reverently, of that "mortal god," to which we owe, under the "immortal God,
Page 63 - NATURE hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind as that, though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.
Page 64 - ... navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving, and removing, such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Page 307 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Page 311 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Page 283 - The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: but they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: neither can they die any more : for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.