On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament
Because you have thrown off your Prelate Lord,
And with stiff vows renounced his Liturgy,
To seize the widowed whore Plurality,
From them whose sin ye envied, not abhorred,
Dare ye for this adjure the civil sword
To force our consciences that Christ set free,
And ride us with a Classic Hierarchy,
Taught ye by mere A. S. and Rutherford?
Men whose life, learning, faith, and pure intent,
Would have been held in high esteem with Paul
Must now be named and printed heretics
By shallow Edwards and Scotch What-d’ye-call!
But we do hope to find out all your tricks,
Your plots and packing, worse than those of Trent,
That so the Parliament
May with their wholesome and preventive shears
Clip your phylacteries, though baulk your ears,
And succour our just fears,
When they shall read this clearly in your charge:
New Presbyter is but old Priest writ large.
Altre opere di John Milton...
Sonnet XIV: On the Religious Memory of Mrs. Catherine Thomson, my Christian Friend, Deceased Dec. 16, 1646
When Faith and Love, which parted from… Had ripened thy just soul to dwell with… Meekly thou didst resign this earthly lo… Of death, called life, which us from lif… Thy works, and alms, and all thy good en…
Paradise Lost: Book I
OF Mans First Disobedience, and the F… Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal ta… Brought Death into the World, and all o… With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Sea…
#BlankVerse #Christianity #Epic #God #GreekAndRomanMythology #MythologyAndFolklore #ParadiseLost #Religion
At a Vacation Exercise in the Colledge, Part Latin, Part English. the Latin Speeches Ended, the English Thus Began
Hail native Language, that by sinews we… Didst move my first endeavouring tongue… And mad’st imperfect words with childish… Half unpronounc’t, slide through my infa… Driving dum silence from the portal dore…
Sonnet XV: On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester
Fairfax, whose name in arms through Eur… Filling each mouth with envy, or with pr… And all her jealous monarchs with amaze And rumours loud, that daunt remotest ki… Thy firm unshak’n virtue ever brings
#HeroesAndPatriotism #MinorPoems #SocialCommentaries #Sonnet #WarAndConflict
