The Life, Times and Writings of Thomas Fuller, D.D., the Church Historian (1608-1661)

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Sida 388 - God into the city: if I shall find favour in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me again, and shew me both it and his habitation: but if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.
Sida 477 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound.
Sida 394 - Are they ministers of Christ ? (I speak as a fool) I am more ; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one ; thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep...
Sida 263 - And He called unto Him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two ; and gave them power over unclean spirits; 8. And commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, save a staff only ; no scrip, no bread, no money in their purse : 9.
Sida 165 - For I know thy rebellion and thy stiff neck; behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the Lord; and how much more after my death?
Sida 179 - And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses ; neither after him arose there any like him.
Sida 32 - Shakspeare, are full of them. The sinner was punned into repentance by the former, as in the latter nothing is more usual than to see a hero weeping and quibbling for a dozen lines together.
Sida 477 - ... an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense: sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture passeth for it.
Sida 212 - Having brought his sermon into his head, he labours to bring it into his heart before he preaches it to his people.
Sida 9 - From whence came Smith, all be he knight or squire, But from the Smith, that forgeth at the fire ? " ' And so in effect may be said of the rest.

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