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Page 63 - And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto - them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people ; saying with a loud voice ; Fear God, and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is come; and worship him that made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of waters.
Page 64 - Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth : for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak : and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me ; for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
Page 106 - It is all that is made. I marvelled how it might last, for methought it might suddenly have fallen to naught for little[ness]. And I was answered in my understanding: It lasteth, and ever shall [last] for that God loveth it. And so All-thing hath the Being by the love of God.
Page 63 - And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that there they may nourish her a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Page 24 - ... teach us and to give us to possess the immeasurable treasure of holy poverty, inasmuch as it is a treasure so exalted and so divine that we are not worthy to possess it in our vile bodies, seeing that this is that celestial virtue by which all earthly and transitory things are trodden under foot and all impediments are lifted away from the soul, so that she can freely unite herself to the eternal God.
Page 44 - Since by Divine inspiration you have made yourselves daughters and handmaids of the Most High Sovereign King, the Heavenly Father, and have espoused yourselves to the Holy Ghost, electing to live according to the perfection of the holy Gospel, I will and I promise for myself and my Friars always to have for you as for them a special solicitude.
Page 105 - I beheld the ineffable fullness of God; but I can relate nothing of it, save that I have seen the fullness of Divine Wisdom, wherein is all goodness." Again, " inasmuch as this was a supernatural thing, I cannot express it in words.
Page 27 - This, my dearest brothers, is the height of the most sublime poverty which has made you heirs and kings of the kingdom of heaven : poor in goods, but exalted in virtue.
Page 80 - There were found some famous men, as Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, and Adam Marsh, and some others, who knew how by the power of mathematics to unfold the causes of all things and to give a sufficient explanation of human and divine phenomena ; and the assurance of this fact is to be found in the writings of those great men, as, for instance, in their works on the impression [of the elements z], on the rainbow and the comets, on the sphere, and on other questions appertaining both to theology and to...
Page 69 - And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.