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" We do not see that, while we still affect by all means a rigid external formality, we may as soon fall again into a gross conforming stupidity, a stark and dead congealment of wood and hay and stubble... "
Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading - Page 54
by John Frederick Boyes - 1859 - 256 pages
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Areopagitica: A Speech to the Parliament of England, for the Liberty of ...

John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1819 - 464 pages
...we still afiWct by all means a rigid externall formality9, we may as soon fall again into a grosse conforming stupidity, a stark and dead congealment of wood and hay and stubble forc't and frozen together, which is more to the sudden degenerating of a Church then many subdichotomies...
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A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...custom, we care not to keep truth separated from truth, which is the fiercest rent and disunion of all. We do not see that while we still affect by all means...church than many subdichotomies of petty schisms. Not that 1 can think well of every light separation ; or that all in a church is to be expected ' gold...
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The Prose Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...not to keep truth separated from truth, which is the fiercest rent and disunion of all. We do not sec that while we still affect by all means a rigid external...congealment of " wood and hay and stubble " forced and (ro'/.cn together, which is more to the sudden degenerating of a church than many subdichotomies of...
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Select Prose Works, Volume 1

John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...custom, we care not to keep truth separated from truth, which is the fiercest rent and disunion of all. We do not see that while we still affect by all means...church than many subdichotomies of petty schisms. 77. Not that I can think well of every light separation; or that all in a church is to be expected...
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Tracts for the people, designed to vindicate religious and Christian liberty

Tracts - Church and state - 1840 - 514 pages
...custom, we care not to keep truth separated from truth, which is the fiercest rent and disunion of all. We do not see that while we still affect by all means...church, than many subdichotomies* of petty schisms. Not that I can think well of every light separation ; or that all in a church is to be expected gold...
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The New Englander, Volume 23

Criticism - 1864 - 752 pages
..."that gross conforming stupidity," which Milton speaks of, "that stark and dead congealment of wood, hay, and stubble, forced and frozen together, which...church than many subdichotomies of petty schisms." And since, there be those whom no dragooning can keep from heresy, nor force into the prevailing orthodoxy,...
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The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...custom, we care not to keep truth separated from truth, which is the fiercest rent and disunion of all. We do not see that while we still affect by all means...church than many subdichotomies of petty schisms. Not that I can think well of every light separation; or that all in a church is to be expected "gold...
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With an Introductory Review, Volume 1

John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...and 'li^uijigiLHJJiy- • WTTddTTrjt see tltaT \vri11e we still 'iHTlHirbj-nU-uieam- a rigid~external formality, we may as soon fall again into a gross...church than many subdichotomies of petty schisms. Not that I can think well of every light separation ; or that all in a church is to be expected "gold...
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The Life and Times of John Bunyan

George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 246 pages
...heretofore, but to gain further, and go on some new enlightened steps in the discovery of truth. And do we not see that while we still affect by all means a...forced and frozen together, which is more to the sudden degeneracy of a church than many subdichotamies (subdivisions) of petty schisms. Not that I can think...
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Lectures on the Pilgrim's Progress, and on the Life and Times of John Bunyan

George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 202 pages
...and devoted Christians. It was not an age of fanaticism only, but of pure and undefiled religion." as soon fall again into a gross conforming stupidity,...forced and frozen together, which is more to the sudden degeneracy of a church than many subdichotamies (subdivisions) of petty schisms. Not that I can think...
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