Church-government

Now committed to voluminous and arduous prose writing, he keeps his biographers busy with attacks on prelatical episcopy and tracts on church government, but he did not forget his ambition for poetry and fame; hence his autobiographical digression in The Reason of Church-government (1642), which gives an account of his youthful travels and studies, and asserts his claim to be a poet of achievement, continuing promise, and ultimate fame.

Heroic Milton: Happy Birthday Kermode, Frank 2009

Besides, women must be silent in Politick and Church-government, why should not they have somthing to say in those places where they are houswives?

The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

He did in his last Will, [30] give an account of his faith and persuasion in point of religion, and Church-government, in these very words:

Lives of John Donne Henry Wotton Rich'd Hooker George Herbert etc Walton, Izaak 1898

For the rest, it effected no reform, and cannot be said to have done much more than to give effect to those aspirations after Church-government by means of Councils which had been slowly forming during the continuance of the schism.

Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866

Antinomian (_antè_, p. 151-3), entitled "A New Quere, at this time seasonably to be considered, & c .. viz. Whether it be fit, according to the principles of true Religion and State to settle any Church-government over the Kingdom hastily or not."

The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864

Prelatical Episcopacy, '1 Book;' Of the Reason of Church-government, '2

The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864

And of Vane he distinctly says that he was "offended with the Solicitor" for putting only differences about Church-government into the Toleration Ordinance, and not also differences "about free grace, including liberty to the Antinomians and to all Sects."

The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864

House of Lords, and there has recriminate Cromwell as one who has avowed his desire to abolish the nobility of England; who has spoken contumeliously of the Scots 'intention in coming to England to establish their Church-government, in which Cromwell said he would draw his sword against them; also against the Assembly of Divines; and has threatened to make a party of Sectaries, to extort by force, both from King and

The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864

Worship_ and the _New Frame of Church-government_; and it only remained for Parliament to sanction or reject what the Assembly had concluded under these two heads.

The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864

January 1644-5, accordingly, there was much discussion in both Houses of all the points of Religion and Church-government which the new Directory and the new Frame were to settle.

The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864