The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of St. Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir of His Life, Volume 6J.W. Parker, 1839 |
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... COMMANDED BY THE KING TO WAIT UPON MY LORD OF DONCASTER IN HIS EMBASSAGE TO GERMANY . FIRST SERMON AS WE WENT OUT , JUNE 16 , 1619 * . ROMANS xiii . 11 . For now is our salvation nearer than when we believed . THERE is not a more ...
... COMMANDED BY THE KING TO WAIT UPON MY LORD OF DONCASTER IN HIS EMBASSAGE TO GERMANY . FIRST SERMON AS WE WENT OUT , JUNE 16 , 1619 * . ROMANS xiii . 11 . For now is our salvation nearer than when we believed . THERE is not a more ...
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... commanded upon his death- bed , that his body should be whipped after he was dead ; that purpose of his , though it were not executed , was a satisfaction of the justice of God . And ( as error can find no place to stop at ) they go yet ...
... commanded upon his death- bed , that his body should be whipped after he was dead ; that purpose of his , though it were not executed , was a satisfaction of the justice of God . And ( as error can find no place to stop at ) they go yet ...
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... commanded , highest too , that law must prevail . If two laws lie upon me , and it be impossible to obey both , I must obey that which comes immediately from the greatest power , and imposes the greatest duty . Here met in her , the ...
... commanded , highest too , that law must prevail . If two laws lie upon me , and it be impossible to obey both , I must obey that which comes immediately from the greatest power , and imposes the greatest duty . Here met in her , the ...
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... commanded , much less in any other . So that there is nothing in this world left , for this noble and operative affection , love , to work upon , but this pure- ness of heart . Love it therefore , that thou mayest seek it , love it that ...
... commanded , much less in any other . So that there is nothing in this world left , for this noble and operative affection , love , to work upon , but this pure- ness of heart . Love it therefore , that thou mayest seek it , love it that ...
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... commanded to love it , as we are the pureness of heart ; we must love to have it , but we must not be in love with it when we have it . But since the Holy Ghost hath chosen to express these abilities , in this word , Grace of lips ...
... commanded to love it , as we are the pureness of heart ; we must love to have it , but we must not be in love with it when we have it . But since the Holy Ghost hath chosen to express these abilities , in this word , Grace of lips ...
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Page 174 - But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee...
Page 60 - And the Lord said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.
Page 255 - Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you ? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.
Page 5 - I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
Page 548 - Wilt thou forgive that sin which I have won Others to sin, and made my sin their door? Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two, but wallowed in a score? *° When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more. I have a sin of fear, that when...
Page 43 - But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
Page 553 - Come, live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove, Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
Page 555 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the .other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run: Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
Page 232 - But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you : and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost parts of the earth.
Page 53 - And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt ; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.