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... meet and treat with your Lordship , upon such particu- lars as you shall communicate to them . After which , Letters were presented , etceteras were trans- acted , and then with a carriage full of gravity and state , they all withdrew ...
... meet and treat with your Lordship , upon such particu- lars as you shall communicate to them . After which , Letters were presented , etceteras were trans- acted , and then with a carriage full of gravity and state , they all withdrew ...
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... you have all along hitherto been conflicting with , -Charles Stuart's In- terest . And I would but meet the gentleman upon a 66 fair discourse who is willing that that Person should 100 PART IX . THE MAJOR - GENERALS . [ 17 Sept.
... you have all along hitherto been conflicting with , -Charles Stuart's In- terest . And I would but meet the gentleman upon a 66 fair discourse who is willing that that Person should 100 PART IX . THE MAJOR - GENERALS . [ 17 Sept.
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... meet withal , though never so specious , if they be not quiet ! ' And truly I am against all " liberty of conscience " repugnant to this . If men will profess , -be they those under Bap- tism , be they those of the Independent judgment ...
... meet withal , though never so specious , if they be not quiet ! ' And truly I am against all " liberty of conscience " repugnant to this . If men will profess , -be they those under Bap- tism , be they those of the Independent judgment ...
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... meet everything that may hap- pen , -you make a law in the face of God ; you tell God you will meet all His dispensations , and will stay things whether He will or no ! But if you make good 6 16 Laws against events , ' insisted on ...
... meet everything that may hap- pen , -you make a law in the face of God ; you tell God you will meet all His dispensations , and will stay things whether He will or no ! But if you make good 6 16 Laws against events , ' insisted on ...
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... meet . ] Therefore certainly it is a pitiful beastly notion to think , though it be for ordi- nary Government to live by law and rule , yet1 — ' if a ' Government in extraordinary circumstances go beyond the law even for self ...
... meet . ] Therefore certainly it is a pitiful beastly notion to think , though it be for ordi- nary Government to live by law and rule , yet1 — ' if a ' Government in extraordinary circumstances go beyond the law even for self ...
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Page 384 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away ; blessed be the Name of the Lord ! — " His Highness," says Harvey, " being at Hampton Court, sickened a little before the Lady Elizabeth died.
Page 140 - Mercy and truth are met together ; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven. Yea, the Lord shall give that which is good ; and our land shall yield her increase. Righteousness shall go before him.; and shall set us -in the way of his steps.
Page 142 - God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea ; though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.
Page 351 - I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.
Page 142 - There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, The holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High. God is in the midst of her ; she shall not be moved : God shall help her, and that right early.
Page 385 - Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Page 140 - Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him ; that glory may dwell in our land. Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Truth shall spring out of the earth ; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
Page 385 - I am instructed, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ which strengthened me.
Page 395 - ... as John Milton saw her do : the Genius of England, much liker a greedy Ostrich intent on provender and a whole skin mainly, stands with its other extremity Sunward ; with its Ostrich-head stuck into the readiest bush, of old Church-tippets, King-cloaks, or what other ' sheltering Fallacy ' there may be, and so awaits the issue. The issue has been slow ; but it is now seen to have been inevitable. No Ostrich, intent on gross terrene provender, and sticking its head into Fallacies, but will be...
Page 403 - I, AB, do in the presence of Almighty God promise, vow, and protest to maintain and defend as far as lawfully I may with my Life, Power, and Estate, the true Reformed Protestant Religion expressed in the Doctrine of the Church of England...