Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other PapersRoberts, 1878 - 440 páginas |
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... fatal corruption of times , so decayed , * According to the Apostolical precept , " Prove all things : hold fast that which is good . " 1 Thess . v . 21 . impaired , and fallen from its native beauty , that 8 RELIGIO MEDICI .
... fatal corruption of times , so decayed , * According to the Apostolical precept , " Prove all things : hold fast that which is good . " 1 Thess . v . 21 . impaired , and fallen from its native beauty , that 8 RELIGIO MEDICI .
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... hold my belief , the Church of England , to whose faith I am a sworn subject ; and therefore in a double obligation subscribe unto her Articles , and endeavour to observe her constitutions : whatsoever is beyond , as points indifferent ...
... hold my belief , the Church of England , to whose faith I am a sworn subject ; and therefore in a double obligation subscribe unto her Articles , and endeavour to observe her constitutions : whatsoever is beyond , as points indifferent ...
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... hold no prediction . That there schism , must be heresies , is true , not only in our church , tiplying but also in any other : even in doctrines hereti- itself . cal , there will be super - heresies ; and Arians not only divided from ...
... hold no prediction . That there schism , must be heresies , is true , not only in our church , tiplying but also in any other : even in doctrines hereti- itself . cal , there will be super - heresies ; and Arians not only divided from ...
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... holds , of earth and fire ; Galen , that it is heat ; Hippocrates , that it is a spirit diffused through the body : some others have held it to be light ; Plato saith , ' t is a substance moving itself ; after cometh Aristotle ( whom ...
... holds , of earth and fire ; Galen , that it is heat ; Hippocrates , that it is a spirit diffused through the body : some others have held it to be light ; Plato saith , ' t is a substance moving itself ; after cometh Aristotle ( whom ...
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... holds no council , but that mystical one of the Trinity , wherein though there be three persons , there is but one mind that decrees without contradiction : nor needs he any ; his actions are not begot with delibera- tion , his wisdom ...
... holds no council , but that mystical one of the Trinity , wherein though there be three persons , there is but one mind that decrees without contradiction : nor needs he any ; his actions are not begot with delibera- tion , his wisdom ...
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Página 14 - Thus there are two Books from whence I collect my Divinity ; besides that written one of GOD, another of His servant Nature, that universal and publick manuscript, that lies expans'd unto the Eyes of all : those that never saw Him in the one, have discovered Him in the other.
Página 121 - I do embrace it : for even that vulgar and tavern music, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the first composer ; there is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers : it is an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world, and creatures of God; such a melody to the ear, as the whole world, well understood, would afford the understanding. In brief, it is a sensible fit of that harmony, which intellectually...
Página 297 - But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the pyramids ? Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it.
Página 297 - Achilles's horses in Homer, under naked nominations, without deserts and noble acts, which are the balsam of our memories, the entelechia and soul of our subsistences?
Página 128 - I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams; and this time also would I choose for my devotions...
Página 296 - ... unto them ; whereas they weariedly left a languishing corpse and with faint desires of re-union. If they fell by long and aged decay, yet wrapt up in the bundle of time, they fall into indistinction, and make but one blot with infants.
Página 295 - Now since these dead bones have already out-lasted the living ones of Methuselah, and in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, out-worn all the strong and specious buildings above it; and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests...
Página 297 - Pyramids, arches, obelisks were but the irregularities of vainglory and wild enormities of ancient magnanimity. But the most magnanimous resolution rests in the Christian religion, which trampleth upon pride and sits on the neck of ambition, humbly pursuing that infallible perpetuity unto which all others must diminish their diameters and be poorly seen in angles of contingency.
Página 297 - Whatever hath no beginning, may be confident of no end; which is the peculiar of that necessary essence that cannot destroy itself, and the highest strain of omnipotency to be so powerfully constituted, as not to suffer even from the power of itself.
Página 297 - Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it ; Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have...