 A man may be a heretic in the truth ; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the Assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.  The New Mirror - Page 80edited by - 1843Full view - About this book
 | 1885 - 568 pages
...sentiment of Milton, that "a man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believes things only because his pastor says so, or the Assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy." Not so with him... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - Bible - 1886 - 622 pages
...Reason and of Conscience ? " A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy." So spake the lofty... | |
 | English literature - 1886 - 330 pages
...conformity and tradition, i A man may be a heretic in the truth ; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.^ There is not any... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...conformity and tradition. A man may be a heretic in the truth ; and if he believe things only because ns reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds, becomes his heresy. There is not any... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 724 pages
...Frenchmen. Henri Pcrreyne. A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy. 43S Milton: Areopagitica.... | |
 | Mark Pattison - Church and state - 1889 - 460 pages
...orthodoxy; for, as Milton says, 'A man may be a heretic in the truth. If he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the Assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy1.' This modern Orthodoxy... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1892 - 572 pages
...Milton remarks, that, "A man may be a heretio in the truth ; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though nil belief be true, yet, the very truth he holds becomes his heresy." (Areopag 154.)—... | |
 | William Davies - Christian life - 1894 - 176 pages
...his Areopagitice, says, "A man may be a heretic in the truth, and if he believes things only because his pastor says so, or the Assembly so determines, without knowing other reasons, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy." Until you gain this fixity of... | |
 | Phillips Brooks - Christian life - 1894 - 560 pages
...conformity and tradition. A man may be a heretic in the truth, and if he believes things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy." But much the most... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...Fable for Critics. L. 851. A man may be a heretic in the truth ; and if he believe things only because Procession of Life. A malady Preys on my heart that med'cine cannot rea reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy. «. MILTON — Arcopagitica.... | |
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