I. Prose Works; II. Poetical Works (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: John Milton
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483523586
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1114

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Excerpt from I. Prose Works; II. Poetical Works To this, and other. Attacks of the Puritan writers, Bishops hall' and usher soon after replied; the-first in An humble Remonstrance to the highcourt of Parliament, and the last in The Apostolical Institution of Episcopacy. MIL ton had commenced the controversy, and he did not shrink from its prosecution. He thought that on subjects to the consideration of which, he was early led solely by his love of truth and reverence for Christianity, he should not reason worse than they who were contending only for their emoluments, and usurpa tions. He wrote, therefore, in answer to the bishops, the tract on Prelatical Episcopacy, and in the same year, The Reason of Church Government urged against Prelacy. In the preface to the second book of this last treatise, he discloses with a calm confidence the high opinion he held of his own powers, and gives promise of a work which his mind, in.the spacious circuit of her musing, had proposed to herself, not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, but by devout prayer to the eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases. This is the prophetic announcement of Paradise Lost, from which he turned for a while. His thoughts, in Obedience to God's secretary Conscience, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes. Bishop hall came out with a Defence of the Remonstrance, which was quickly succeeded by milton's Animadversions, in the form of a dialogue, and written in a lighter and more satirical vein than his previous works, though not without some passages of solemn and impressive eloquence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.