📔 The History of the World
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Now Providence (which the Greekes call Pronoia) is an intellectuall knowledge, both fore-seeing, caring for, and ordering all things, and doth not onely behold all past, all present, and all to come, but is the cause of their so being, which Prescience (simply taken) is not: and therefore Providence by the Philosophers (saith S. Augustine) is divided into Memory, Knowledge, and Care: […]
It was their meaning to take what they needed by stronghand.
Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings […] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves […]
But this Prescience of God (as it is Prescience only) is not the cause of any thing futurely succecding : neither doth Gods fore-knowledge impose any necessity, or binde.
it seemeth by the perclose of the same verse, that vagabond is therein understood
This dreadful precedent extremely displeased the Boii; who being neighbours to Ariminum, feared the like displantation
In the blowth and bud.
Macedon may justly be called to witness, who found more cities and sumptuosity in that little kingdom of Porus […] than in all his other travels and undertakings.
There is no likelihood between pure light and black darkness, […] or between righteousness and reprobation.
Hobab the son of Raguel the Madianite, who assisted the Israelites in their conduction through the Wildernes of Pharan.
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Publication Year
1614
Total Quotes
14