... as if they could make God earthly and fleshly because they could not make themselves heavenly and spiritual ; they began to draw down all the divine intercourse betwixt God and the soul ; yea, the very shape of God Himself, into an exterior and bodily... The Complete Works of Richard Sibbes, D.D. - Page lxvby Richard Sibbes - 1862Full view - About this book
| 1840 - 354 pages
...could make God earthly and fleshly, because they could not make themselves heavenly and spiritual. They began to draw down all the divine intercourse...they sprinkled it, they bedecked it, not in robes of pure innoccncy, but of pure linen, with other deformed and fantastic dresses, in palls, and mitres,... | |
| 1881 - 890 pages
...hindered the cause of reformation in religion. Speaking of the acts of the priest party, he says : " They began to draw down all the divine intercourse...and bodily form, urgently pretending a necessity and obligemcnt of joining the body in a formal reverence, and worship circumscribed ; they hallowed it,... | |
| John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1871 - 566 pages
...could make God earthly and fleshly, because they could not make themselves heavenly and spiritual. They began to draw down all the divine intercourse...into an exterior and bodily form, urgently pretending ~~sa necessity and obligemeut of joining the body in a formal reverence, and worship circumscribed.... | |
| Fireside pictorial annual - 1879 - 822 pages
...HUBself, into an exterior and bodily form ; urgemlj pretending a ueces-ity aud obligement of joeing the body in a formal reverence, and worship circumscribed. They hallowed it, they ¡toad it, they sprinkled it, they bedecked r robes of pure iunocency but of pure linen, mu other deformed... | |
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