Lord Bacon Not the Author of "The Christian Paradoxes": Being a Reprint of "Memorials of Godliness and Christianity" |
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Page 33 - tis the soul of peace ; Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd.
Page 122 - In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof ; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old...
Page 122 - I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever : but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me ; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
Page 54 - Keep my commandments, and live ; and my law as the apple of thine eye. Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
Page 20 - Biathanatos. A Declaration of that Paradoxe, or Thesis, that Selfe-homicide is not so Naturally Sinne, that it may never be otherwise...
Page 116 - He is often tossed and shaken, yet is as mount Sion ; he is a serpent and a dove ; a lamb and a lion ; a reed and a cedar. He is sometimes so troubled that he thinks nothing to be true in religion : yet if he did think so, he could not at all be troubled.
Page 122 - Apostles mention (of which a wicked book is abroad and uncensured, though deserving to be burnt, whose Author hath been so impudent as to set his name to it and dedicate it to yourselves) ; or for liberty to marry incestuously — will you grant a toleration for all this...
Page 24 - And indeed, what are the Heavens, the earth, nay, every creature, but Hieroglyphics and Emblems of his glory ? I have no more to say ; I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in writing. Farewell, Reader. FRANCIS QUARLES. T) Y fathers back'd, by Holy Writ led on : Thou show'st the way to HEAV'N by Helicon : The Muses...
Page 125 - ... stolen word for word from the mouth of a Heathen woman praying to a Heathen God, and that in no serious book, but in the vain amatorious poem of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia...
Page 43 - With reference to his titled and illustrious audience at St Margaret's, Westminster, he was wont to say, " he did not in that place preach BEFORE them, (ut coram judice,) but TO them, (authoritative,} as by commission from God." § Altogether, a more Pauline man — physically and spiritually — we can scarcely conceive. Even from our faint blurred lines it must appear that in HERBERT PALMER we have a very remarkable man, of whose thoughts and speculations, written and spoken words, and beautiful...