 | John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...is but choosing; (41) he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions. We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love,...very ingredients of virtue ? They are not skilful considerers of human things, who imagine to re(") See, on the abstruse question here glanced at, Hobbes'.s... | |
 | Tracts - Church and state - 1840 - 514 pages
...reason is but choosing ; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions.f We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love,...very ingredients of virtue ? They are not skilful considerers of human things, who imagine to remove sin by removing the matter of sin ; for, besides... | |
 | Holy thoughts - 1844 - 122 pages
...under, and win upon that which is good, I may come to be better in time. — Feltham. Wherefore did God create passions within us, pleasures round about us,...rightly tempered, are the very ingredients of virtue. — Milton. The first thing in religion is, to refine a man's temper, and the second to govern his... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...reason is but choosing; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Aclarn as he is in the motions. We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love,...very ingredients of virtue ? They are not skilful considerers of human things, who imagine to remove sin, by removing the matter of sin ; for, besides... | |
 | Joseph Fletcher - 1847 - 650 pages
...reason is but choosing ; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions. We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love,...right of his reward, the praise of his abstinence. Why should we affect a rigour contrary to the manner of God and of nature ?" " Were I the chooser,... | |
 | John Milton - Essays - 1848 - 566 pages
...reason is but choosing;* he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions. We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love,...very ingredients of virtue ? They are not skilful considerers of human things, who imagine to remove sin, by removing the matter of sin ; for, besides... | |
 | Joseph Fletcher - England - 1849 - 320 pages
...reason is but choosing ; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as lie is in the motions. We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love,...left him free, set before him a provoking object, ev£r almost in his eyes; herein consisted his merit, herein the right of his reward, the praise of... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - English language - 1852 - 380 pages
...reason is but choosing ; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions. We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love,...the very ingredients of virtue? They are not skilful considerers of human things, who imagine to remove sin, by removing the matter of sin ; for, besides... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 546 pages
...reason is but choosing ; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions. We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love,...right of his reward, the praise of his abstinence.' Speechfor the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing. Prose Works, II. 74. against this doctrine,i are of no... | |
 | 1853 - 174 pages
...under, and win upon that .which is good, I may come to be better in time. FELTHAM. Wherefore did God create passions within us, pleasures round about us,...rightly tempered, are the very ingredients of virtue. MILTON. The first thing in religion is, to refine a man's temper, and the second to govern his practice.... | |
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We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love, or gift, which is of force. God therefore left him free, set before him a provoking object ever almost in his eyes; herein consisted his merit, herein the right of his reward, the praise of his abstinence. 
