 | W. H. Auden - 2004 - 604 Seiten
...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. A sect, whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies; In falling out with that or this, And... | |
 | Melvin Jonah Lasky - 752 Seiten
...principle of perpetual commotion at work. "Strange," he says, "that Reformation should be always doing, and never done" — As if Religion were intended, For nothing else, but to be mended . . . He offers a comprehensive chronicle of "the late grand Revolutions of Europe": with special attention... | |
 | John Farrell - 2006 - 372 Seiten
...Knocks; Call Fire and Sword and Desolation, A godly-thorough-Reformation, Which alwayes must be carry'd on, And still be doing, never done: As if Religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended. A Sect, whose chief Devotion lies In odde perverse Antipathies; In falling out with that or this, And... | |
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To be the true Church militant; Such as do 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,... 
