The Protector: A VindicationRobert Carter, 1847 - 281 pages |
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... hope that no person , in the nineteenth century , will feel that wonder from which the prime minister of Charles II . was exempt : and what he considered very natural then , in the midst of party feelings , will doubtless be thought so ...
... hope that no person , in the nineteenth century , will feel that wonder from which the prime minister of Charles II . was exempt : and what he considered very natural then , in the midst of party feelings , will doubtless be thought so ...
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... hope , will hereafter throw a still greater light on one of the most astonishing problems that time has handed down to us . It is only gradually and by slow degrees that darkness is scattered in history , as well as in the natural world ...
... hope , will hereafter throw a still greater light on one of the most astonishing problems that time has handed down to us . It is only gradually and by slow degrees that darkness is scattered in history , as well as in the natural world ...
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... hope : and if here I may honor my God either by doing or by suffering , I shall be most glad . 66 Truly no poor creature hath more cause to put himself forth in the cause of his God than I. I have had plentiful wages beforehand ; and I ...
... hope : and if here I may honor my God either by doing or by suffering , I shall be most glad . 66 Truly no poor creature hath more cause to put himself forth in the cause of his God than I. I have had plentiful wages beforehand ; and I ...
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... hope from a prince only twenty - five years old ? But when the king gave England a papist queen in the person of Hen- rietta of France , the affection that had been entertained to- wards him immediately cooled . Nor was it without a ...
... hope from a prince only twenty - five years old ? But when the king gave England a papist queen in the person of Hen- rietta of France , the affection that had been entertained to- wards him immediately cooled . Nor was it without a ...
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... hope your hon- ors will not be offended , " replied Prynne ; " pray God give you ears to hear . " - Oliver's ear heard , and his heart throbbed with emotion . As Dr. Bastwick ascended the scaffold on which he was to suffer mutilation ...
... hope your hon- ors will not be offended , " replied Prynne ; " pray God give you ears to hear . " - Oliver's ear heard , and his heart throbbed with emotion . As Dr. Bastwick ascended the scaffold on which he was to suffer mutilation ...
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Page 127 - And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment.
Page 275 - 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 79 - There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Page 264 - The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Page 100 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Page 260 - For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour : yet what I shall choose I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ ; which is far better : nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
Page 270 - ... the four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
Page 262 - Lord, though I am a miserable and wretched creature, I am in Covenant with Thee through grace. And I may, I will, come to Thee, for Thy People. Thou hast made me, though very unworthy, a mean instrument to do them some good, and Thee service...
Page 275 - 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 141 - The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.