...their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun ; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery, And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows...were intended For nothing else but to be mended. A sort whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies ; In falling out with that or this, And...

...controversy by Infallible artillery; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks ; Cull fire, and sword, and desolation A godly thorough Reformation,...were intended For nothing else but to be mended.' 1 ' Puritanism,' says nn Oxford historian, 'ceased from the long attempt to build up a kingdom of God...

...prove their doctrine nrtlfrti'X By apostolic blows nud knock- : Cull fire, and sword, and deenlaih n A godly thorough Reformation, Which always must be...were intended For nothing else but to be mended.' 3 'Puritanism,' says an Oxford historian, 'censed from the long attempt to build up a kingdom of God...

...their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun ; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery ; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows...whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies .... That with more care keep holiday The wrong, than others the right way ; Compound for sins they...

...build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows...and knocks; Call fire and sword and desolation, A godly-thorough-Reformation, Which always must be carry'd on, And still be doing, never done: As if...

...its common-sense dissatisfaction, theoretically, with never arriving at the knowledge of the truth— "As if religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended"— in a life where man has to play his part, not as a mere reasoning anmal, but as a thinking, feeling,...

...Knocks, Call Fire and Sword and Desolation A godly-thorough-Reformation, Which always must be carry'd on, And still be doing, never done: As if Religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended. . . . There is not a point here which does not glance at some seventeenth-century doctrine, controversy,...

...build their Faith upon The Holy Text of Pike and Gun, Decide all Controversies by Infallible Artillery, And prove their Doctrine Orthodox By Apostolic Blows...and Knocks; Call Fire and Sword and Desolation, A godly-thorough-Reformation. , . . Much of this violence is purely rhetorical; but it does leave some...

...even in Asia is in need of a thorough reformation — not, indeed, A godly, thorough Reformation... As if religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended, but a reformation in the sense of a restatement of fundamentals and an expression of that restatement...

...their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery . . . As if religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended. 14 In particular - this is the positive development - natural science was making headway as a solid...