 | Grace Eleanor Hadow, William Henry Hadow - 1908 - 440 Seiten
...and devout men, as they daily and solemnly express their thoughts, God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in his Church, even to the reforming...unworthy? Behold now this vast city: a city of refuge, the mansion house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his protection ; the shop of war hath not... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - 1908 - 830 Seiten
...decreeing to begin of warlike and intellectual activity some new and great period in his church ev'n to the reforming of reformation itself: what does...mark not the method of his counsels and are unworthy. London, a city Behold now this vast city, a city of refuge, the mansion house of liberty, encompast... | |
 | Harold Robert Isaacs - 1989 - 260 Seiten
...heaven's mandate from the kings to the people. "God is decreeing some new and great period," he wrote. "What does he, then, but reveal himself to his servants and, as his manner is, first to Englishmen?" Cromwell believed that the people of England were "a People that are to God as the apple... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 Seiten
...and devout men, as they daily and solemnly express their thoughts, God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in his Church, even to the reforming...servants, and, as his manner is, first to his Englishmen. Areopagitica is a noble and eloquent plea, overwhelmingly optimistic in tone even though one of the... | |
 | Ernest Lee Tuveson - 1980 - 252 Seiten
...and devout men, as they daily and solemnly express their thoughts, God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in his church, even to the reforming...servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen? [Areopagitica] For it is in "this vast city, a city of refuge, the mansionhouse of liberty," that God... | |
 | Geoffrey Rudolph Elton - 1982 - 442 Seiten
...102—3. 23 Ibid., 103:'. . . God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in his Church, ev'n to the reforming of Reformation itself: what does...servants, and as his manner is, first to his English-men'; John Milton, 'Areopagitica,' ed. by Ernest last step in that long process by which the English usurped... | |
 | Lionel Adey - 1986 - 294 Seiten
...made in George Wither's hymns48 and in Milton's famous sentences: God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in his church, even to the reforming...servants, and as his manner is. first to his Englishmen? . . . Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 Seiten
...decreeing to begin some new and great period in his Church, ev'n to the reforming of Reformation it self: what does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his English-men . . ,13 It was, presumably, upon this hope that Milton based his early plans for a national epic of... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - 1987 - 192 Seiten
...decreeing to begin some new and great period in his Church, ev'n to the reforming of Reformation it self: what does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his English-men. (553) That reading the "concurrence of signs" of the last days, in the flood of learned commentaries... | |
 | Robert Allen Houston, Ian D. Whyte - 2005 - 316 Seiten
...time that Milton, along with not a few of his countrymen, detected God 'decreeing to begin some new and great period in His church, even to the reforming of Reformation itelP, it seemed no more than to be expected that in revealing himself to his servants he should begin... | |
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Now once again by all concurrence of signs, and by the general instinct of holy and devout men, as they daily and solemnly express their thoughts, God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in His Church, even to the reforming of Reformation... 
