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Nov. 14, 2007
Baxter and Milton Quotes
I found these good quotes in my literature reading from the last unit, and I thought I would post them up here since posts have been in scarcity lately.
Baxter--"Consider then, that labour and trouble are the common way to rest, both in the course of nature and of grace. . . . So, must God pervert His stablished order for thee?"
I love how Baxter just builds his case point by point. I deleted a lot of the paragraph, but he basically gives every instance in life where labour proceeds rest. Then he just slams you with that rhetorical question: "So, musy God pervery His stablished order for thee?" In modern English, "Your whole life you will spend working. Rest is for heaven. Stop pleading with God for the easy life! He has told you that being a Christian is hard work, and you should accept suffering meekly and with patience. (1 Peter 4:19.)
Milton--"Their martyred blood and ashes sow/ O'er all th' Italian fields, where still doth sway/ The triple tyrant, that from these may grow/ A hundredfold[.] . . ."
This is a really cool line from Milton's eighteenth sonnet. Milton is expouding Tertullian's famous quote, "The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church." The theme of this sonnet is martyrdom. Milton is pleaing that the Lord would avenge His "slaughtered saints," specifically the Waldensians who were murdered by the Pope's command. I didn't understand this, but "the triple tyrant" actually refers to the Pope, who wears a special triple crown. Milton was so great about packing these little details into just a few lines! |
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