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That fault I finde in my text, the same I finde in our common Christians, whose spirituall condition, and state is too like the externall situation of our Country, between the Torrid, and the
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Castell was the pest, [504] (and diverse thairin dyed,) which more effrayed some that was thairin, then did the externall force without.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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Lacedemonia [n] s, bothe in their externall chiualrie and feates, bothe by sea and by lande, and also in regimente otherwise, their citee grewe mightie, and state stedfast.
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Secondly, of _Ahabs_ disease exceeding in externall humiliation, affected gestures, passionate sighes, lowdnesse of voyce, odde attires & such like: These know how to rend the garment, hang the head with the bulrush, to whip and launce their skinnes with _Baals_ Priests; and yet strangers to a wounded spirit: not but that true and hearty zeale doth lift up the eyes, knocke the breast, dance before the Arke.
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First, That the felicitie of Godis people may not be measured by any externall appeirance; for oftyn it is, that the same people, to whome
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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Againe, in that a number of you haue rashlie preferred an externall souereigntie before the customes and lawes of your owne countrie, you doo at this time (I doubt not) perfectlie vnderstand how much free pouertie is to be preferred before great riches, wherevnto seruitude is annexed; and much wealth in respect of captiuitie vnder forren magistrats, wherevpon slauerie attendeth.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England Raphael Holinshed
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Conceits, as being Representations of those externall Bodies, which cause them, and have nothing in them of reality, no more than there is in the things that seem to stand before us in a Dream:
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633
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If therefore a Pastor lawfully called to teach and direct others, or any other, of whose knowledge there is a great opinion, doe externall honor to an Idol for fear; unlesse he make his feare, and unwillingnesse to it, as evident as the worship; he Scandalizeth his Brother, by seeming to approve Idolatry.
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633
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And of that opinion, the externall signes appearing in the Words, and Actions of men, are called Worship; which is one part of that which the
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633
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Authority in matter of Gods externall worship; and represented
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633
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