Select Works Robert Crowley Eetse: C 15 C

By Joseph Meadows Cowper

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ...lawfully called vnto it, pre 126 sumeth todothe officeof a kinge, so he that taketh in hand to do the office of a king, taketh Goddes office in hand, christ would We reade that oure Sauioure Christ, beinge in never go beyond the bounds of a the estimation of the worlde but a priuate man, wold private man, aa-_ Luke.xii. not walke out of the boundos of that vocacion. But waa seen when He...., . o i in, was aaked about when a certaino man came vnto him & desired that the inheritance, Q wQuid commaund hys brother to deuide the en 133 heritaunce wyth him, he axed who had appointed and in the matter him to be iudge in suche matters? And againe, when of the woman.' uken in adultery, the woman taken in adultery was broughte vnto hym, Ct At he shoulde not geue sentence f of the lawe againste her, 137 but axed Mr if any man had condemned hir, and vpon If you had known hir deniall let hir ge. If these examples, with the John '.viii. terrible stories of Corah, Dathara, Abiram and Abso otiOT'exampiea, lom had ben diligently beaten into thine heade, thou JVumeri.xvi. wouldeste (no doubte) haue quieted thy selfe, and haue ii. Reg. atviii. suffered thy selfe rather to haue bene spoyled of al MivMbetorn together, yea, and thy bodie toren in peces, rather then thanrebcia--in-t ou wouldest haue taken on the more then thou art the king. called vnte. For no cause can be so greet to make it 145 lawful for the to do againste Goddes ordinaunce. But thy shepeherde hathe bene negligent, as (alas the But ail shepherds while ) all shepeherdes be at this daie, and hath not this day"' ' enstructed the aright. He espied not the wolf before he had woried the, or happlye he knewe him not frome 150 a shepe. But it is moste like he was but an hirelinge, and yours and ...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859919609
• ISBN13: 9780859919609
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"