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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 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 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 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 37 - did preach that day to the Assembly two of the most Scottish and free sermons that ever I heard anywhere. The way here of all preachers, even the best, has been to speak before the Parliament with so profound a reverence as truly took all edge from their exhortations, and made all applications of them toothless and adulatorious.
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 20 - Biathanatos. A Declaration of that Paradoxe, or Thesis, that Selfe-homicide is not so Naturally Sinne, that it may never be otherwise...
Page 120 - Underbill, and are to be sold at the Signe of the Bible in Woodstreete. 1645. 4°. Title-page, The Licence, the Contents of the first Part, Errata, To the Christian Reader, pp. 14, [unpaged,] and pp. 368. The
Page 6 - THE REMAINES OF THE RIGHT HONORABLE FRANCIS LORD VERULAM, VISCOUNT OF ST. ALBANES, sometimes Lord Chancellour of England. Being Essayes and Severall Letters to severall great Personages, and other pieces of various and high concernment not heretofore published.