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I say, when you can prove, That God hath made water baptism that wall, and that the stress of the after eighteen charges lie wholly and only in that; then you may, time enough, call my language such as wanteth charity: but I question though that was granted, whether your saying, I RAGE, will be justified in the day of judgment.

Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor.

WHEN THE HEAVENS FALL GILBERT MORRIS 2010

She entereth the garden by the private wicket of the palace which leadeth thereto; and thou must know that it wanteth now but a month to the time of her going forth.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Then he continued, It wanteth three hours yet to prayer time; but I do not wish to be in doubt upon this matter; nay, I must know the moment exactly, for truly,

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

It is a weak sovereign that has weak subjects; and a weak people whose sovereign wanteth power to rule them at his will.

Leviathan 2007

For it has been already shown that nothing the sovereign representative can do to a subject, on what pretence soever, can properly be called injustice or injury; because every subject is author of every act the sovereign doth, so that he never wanteth right to any thing, otherwise than as he himself is the subject of

Leviathan 2007

For as a child wants the judgement to dissent from counsel given him, and is thereby necessitated to take the advice of them, or him, to whom he is committed; so an assembly wanteth the liberty to dissent from the counsel of the major part, be it good or bad.

Leviathan 2007

They make great account of many senseless things, esteeming them as a great part of their treasure, statues, pictures, and such like movables, dear bought, and so cunningly wrought, as nothing but speech wanteth in them, [238] and yet they hate living persons speaking to them.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Excommunication therefore, when it wanteth the assistance of the civil power, as it doth when a Christian state or prince is excommunicate by a foreign authority, is without effect, and consequently ought to be without terror.

Leviathan 2007

The legislator known, and the laws either by writing or by the light of nature sufficiently published, there wanteth yet another very material circumstance to make them obligatory.

Leviathan 2007