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Page 308
... cause of Calvinism that there sprang the original impulse , the sustained writing of verse itself aided the liberation of his heart . The process is apparent even in Truth . This poem , one of the most definitely didactic , opens with ...
... cause of Calvinism that there sprang the original impulse , the sustained writing of verse itself aided the liberation of his heart . The process is apparent even in Truth . This poem , one of the most definitely didactic , opens with ...
Page 325
... cause engages him Wherever pleaded . ' Tis the cause of man . " 1 There is nothing of the Calvinist here , or in the passage im- mediately following , in which the crime of tyranny and the tortures of imprisonment are further moralised ...
... cause engages him Wherever pleaded . ' Tis the cause of man . " 1 There is nothing of the Calvinist here , or in the passage im- mediately following , in which the crime of tyranny and the tortures of imprisonment are further moralised ...
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... cause . The Lord of all , himself through all diffus'd , Sustains , and is the life of all that lives . Nature is but a name for an effect Whose cause is God . . . • One spirit - His Who wore the plaited thorns with bleeding brows ...
... cause . The Lord of all , himself through all diffus'd , Sustains , and is the life of all that lives . Nature is but a name for an effect Whose cause is God . . . • One spirit - His Who wore the plaited thorns with bleeding brows ...
Contents
FOREWORD II | 11 |
AN EXTRAMUNDANE AND HIS WORLD | 34 |
THE EVANGELICAL REVIVAL | 158 |
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