...the ill which thou hast done be troubled, and rejoice for the good. Our thoughts on present things being determined by the objects before us, fall not...are the snares lodged, by which the imagination is entangled. Futurity is the proper abode of hope and fear, with all their train and progeny of subordinate...

...am now considering. But I cannot forhear, under this head, to caution pious and tender minds, ttat are disturbed by the irruptions of wicked imaginations,...God or man May come and go, so unapprov'd, and leave Xo spot or stain behind. MILrON. In futurity chiefly are the snares lodged, by which the imagination...

...imaginations, against too great dejection, and too anxious alarms ; for thoughts are only criminal, wheu they are first chosen, and then voluntarily continued....are the snares lodged, by which the imagination is entangled. Futurity is the proper abode of hope and fear, with all their train and progeny of subordinate...

...; for thoughts are only criminal, when they are first chosen, and then voluntarily continued. £ril into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapprov'd,...are the snares lodged, by which the imagination is entangled. Futurity is the proper abode of hope and fear, with all their train and progeny of subordinate...

...thy load, and taste thy sweet, Nor God, nor man ? Parodist Lost, V. 59. And again, in the same book, Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unreprov'd. 117. Where Newton properly remarks that God must signify Angel, for « God cannot be tempted...

...a blasphemer. I am well aware, Gentlemen, that according to our poet, the illustrious Milton — " Evil into the mind of God or man, May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or stain hehind." But still, Gentlemen, 1 do maintain, that the constant...

...evening's talk, in this thy dream, But with addition strange ; yet be not sad. Evil into the mind of Cod or Man May come and go, so unapprov'd, and leave No spot or blame behind : which gives me hope That what in sleep thou didst abhor to dream, Waking thou never...

...sinful. Johnson's remark, and his quotation from Milton, will give the substance of the whole. — "Thoughts are only criminal, when they are first chosen,...Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or stain behind." — Milton. The second thing, in which the writers...

...mcthinks I find Of our last evening's talk in this thy dream, But with addition strange. Yet he not sad : Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapprov'd, and leave No spot or hlame hehind ; which gives me hope, That what in sleep thou didst ahhor to dream, Waking thou never...

...methinks I find But with addition strange; yet be not sad. Of our last evening's talk in this thy dream, Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapprov'd, and leave No spot or blame behind; which gives me hope Waking thou never wilt consent to do. That what in sleep thou didst...