The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649: Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His TimeMasson, David
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The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649: Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time
Masson, David
Milton, John, 1608-1674; Poets, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Biography
"That the magistrate may not punish for blasphemies, nor for denying the
Scriptures, nor For denying that there is a God."
"That the soul dies with the body, and all things shall have an end, but
God only."
"That there is but one Person in the Divine Nature."
"That Jesus Christ is not very God: no otherwise may he be called the Son
of God but as he was man."
"That we did look for great matters from one crucified at Jerusalem 1600
years ago, but that does us no good; it must be a Christ formed in us:
Christ came into the world to live 32 years, and do nothing else that he
[Thomas Webb, of London, ætat. 20] knew."
"That the Heathen who never heard of Christ by the Word have the Gospel,
for every creature, as the sun, moon, and stars, preach the Gospel to
men."
"That Christ shall come and live again upon the earth, and for a thousand
years reign visibly as an earthly monarch over all the world."
"That the least truth is of more worth than Jesus Christ himself."
"That the Spirit of God dwells not nor works in any; it is but our
conceits and mistakes to think so; 'tis no spirit that works but our
own."
"That a man baptized with the Holy Ghost knows all things even as God
knows all things; which point is a deep mystery and great ocean, where
there is no casting anchor, nor sounding the bottom."
"That, if a man by the Spirit knew himself to be in the state of grace,
though he did commit murder or drunkenness, God did see no sin in him."
"That the guilt of Adam's sin is imputed to no man."
"That the moral law is of no use at all to believers."
"That there ought to be no fasting days under the Gospel."
"That the soul of man is mortal as the soul of a beast, and dies with the
body."
"That Heaven is empty of the Saints till the resurrection of the dead."
"That there is no resurrection at all of the bodies of men after this
life, nor no Heaven nor Hell after this life, nor no Devils."
"That there shall be in the last day a resurrection from the dead of all
the brute creatures, all beasts and birds that ever lived upon the
earth."
"That many Christians in those days have more knowledge than the
Apostles."
"That there ought to be in these times no making or building of churches,
nor use of church-ordinances; but waiting for a church, being in a
readiness upon all occasions to take knowledge of any passenger, of any
opinion or tenet whatsoever: the Saints, as pilgrims, do wander as in a
temple of smoke, not able to find Religion, and therefore should not
plant it by gathering or building a pretended supposed House."
"That, in points of Religion, even in the Articles of Faith and
principles of Religion, there's nothing certainly to be believed and
built on; only that all men ought to have liberty of conscience and
liberty of prophesying."
"That 'tis as lawful to baptize a cat, or a dog, or a chicken, as to
baptize the infants of believers."
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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