 | Joseph Fletcher - 1847 - 650 pages
...soon put it out of controversy, that bishops and presbyters are the same to us, both name and thing." faith and knowledge thrives by exercise, as well as...to a streaming fountain ; if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. A man may be a... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 566 pages
...stepdame to truth : and first, by disenabling us to the maintenance of what is known already. Well knows he who uses to consider, that our faith and...to a streaming fountain ; if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. A man may be a... | |
 | Joseph Fletcher - 1849 - 320 pages
...soon put it out of controversy, that bishops and presbyters are the same to us, both name and thing." faith, and knowledge thrives by exercise, as well...to a streaming fountain ; if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. A man may be a... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 pages
...to consider, that our faith and knowledge thrives by exercise, as well as our limbs and complexions. Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain ; if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. A man may be a... | |
 | Robert Cox - 1853 - 744 pages
...Well knows he who uses to consider, that our fnith and knowledge thrives by exercise, as well аз our limbs and complexion. Truth is compared in Scripture...to a streaming fountain ; if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition." — (Areopmjilica... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1855 - 518 pages
...prove a step-dame to truth, " by disenabling us to the maintenance of what is known already." Well knows he who uses to consider that our faith and knowledge...by exercise, as well as our limbs and complexion. t Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain ; if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression,... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1855 - 510 pages
...prove a step-dame to truth, " by disenabling us to the maintenance of what is known already." Well knows he who uses to consider that our faith and knowledge thrives by exercise, as well as our limbs and complexion.t Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain ; if her waters flow not in a perpetual... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1855 - 512 pages
...consider that our faith and knowledge thrives by exercise, as well as our limbs and complcxion.f TVuth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain ; if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. A man may be a... | |
 | 1856 - 622 pages
...counteract Che influence of thoï-o in which the mind rests upon external authority. "Truth," t-ays Milton, "is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain, if her waters flow rot in peí |>(/tual progression, they sicken to a muddy |км>1 of conformity and tradition." China... | |
 | 1861 - 624 pages
...with a living eloquence, of which a few words may here suffice : — ' Our faith and knowledge thrive by exercise, as well as our limbs and complexion....to a streaming fountain ; if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.' ' If it come to... | |
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Well knows he who uses to consider, that our faith and knowledge thrives by exercise as well as our limbs and complexion. Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain ; if her waters flow not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy... 
