 | Francis Blessington - 2004 - 161 pages
...bin else a meer artificiall Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions [puppet shows]. We our selves esteem not of that obedience, or love, or gift, which...right of his reward, the praise of his abstinence. (Prose, 2:527) A stumbling block here is not accepting the psychological fact that we, before and after... | |
 | Victoria Kahn - 2009 - 392 pages
...else a meer artificiali Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions. We our selves esteem not that of obedience, or love, or gift, which is of force: God...left him free, set before him a provoking object, even almost in his eyes; herein consisted his merit, herein the right of his reward, the praise of... | |
 | Chana B. Cox - 2006 - 302 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,...herein the right of his reward, the praise of his abstinence."17 Milton characterized their sin as a yielding to temptation. They chose to reach for... | |
 | John McCormick, Mairi MacInnes - 2006 - 400 pages
...else a meer artificiall Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions.-- We our selves esteem not of-3 that obedience, or love, or gift, which is of force:...reward, the praise of his abstinence. Wherefore did he creat passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly temper'd are the very ingredients... | |
 | Elizabeth Kantor - 2006 - 278 pages
...Adam," not a truly rational being, if God had not given him freedom to choose, and opportunity to fall: We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love, or gift, which is of force: God therefore left [Adam] free, set before him a provoking object, ever almost in his eyes; herein consisted his merit,... | |
 | Micheline Ishay - 2007 - 590 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,...rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue? ... This justifies the high providence of God, who, though He commands us temperance, justice, continence,... | |
 | John Witte - 2007 - 25 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,...provoking object, ever almost in his eyes, herein consist his merit, herein the right of his reward, the praise of his abstinence.52 None of this changed... | |
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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. 
