 | David Loewenstein, James Turner - 1990 - 308 pages
...worldly prose polemics represent truth as untellable. Areopagitica reminds us that "Truth is compar'd in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in a perpetuall progression, they sick'n into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition" (11.543). Originating... | |
 | Robert Martin, Gordon Stuart Adam - 1994 - 900 pages
...understanding at risk.6 He observed: [O]ur faith and knowledge thrives by exercise . . . Truth is ... a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual...progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tracition. A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says... | |
 | Paul M. Dowling - 1995 - 160 pages
...needs first to be clarified. Milton first conflates faith with knowledge in a lengthy passage: Well knows he who uses to consider, that our faith and knowledge thrives [sic] by exercise, as well as our limbs and complexion. Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming... | |
 | Elizabeth Sauer - 1996 - 230 pages
...of a dominant view or single truth, an act more oppressive than the suppression of all truths: Well knows he who uses to consider, that our faith and...exercise, as well as our limbs and complexion. Truth is compar'd in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in a perpetuall progression,... | |
 | Richard D. Brown - 1996 - 280 pages
...Controversy, Milton dared to assert, was a good thing: "Our faith and knowledge thrives by exercise. . . . 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."30 Censorship brought... | |
 | Kristen Poole - 2006 - 292 pages
...disparagingly discuss the "spring" of sectarianism, seeking its originary "fountain," Milton writes, "Truth is compared in scripture to a streaming fountain;...sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition" (739). Milton's appropriation of the prelate's genealogical rhetoric is thus not concerned with finding... | |
 | Nigel Warburton - 2001 - 272 pages
...themsalves above all others in the land, the grace of infallibility and uncorruptedness?' lp. 6g3}. 3 'Wall knows he who uses to consider, that our faith and knowledge thrives by exercise, as wall as our limbs and complexion. Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters... | |
 | Nigel Warburton - 2001 - 272 pages
...5g3I. 3 'Wall knows he who uses to consider, that our iaith and knowledge thrives by exercise, as wall as our limbs and complexion. Truth is compared in Scripture to a streeming fountain; if her waters flow not in a perpefual progression, they sickan into a muddy pool... | |
 | N. H. Keeble - 2001 - 322 pages
...Christian commitment: 'Truth', he wrote in Areopagitica (1644), referring to Psalm 85:11, 'is compar'd in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in a perpetuall progression, they sick'n into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.'21 Stability and... | |
 | Steven L. Winter - 2001 - 466 pages
...licensing of the press, framed the free speech argument as an argument for truth. "Truth is compar'd in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in a perpetuall progression, they sick'n into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition." 23 The biblical... | |
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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... 
