...heaven's mandate from the kings to the people. "God is decreeing some new and great period," he wrote. "What does he, then, but reveal himself to his servants and, as his manner is, first to Englishmen?" Cromwell believed that the people of England were "a People that are to God as the apple...

...be vouchsafed. Now once again by all concurrence of signs, and by the general instinct of holy and devout men, as they daily and solemnly express their...servants, and, as his manner is, first to his Englishmen. Areopagitica is a noble and eloquent plea, overwhelmingly optimistic in tone even though one of the...

...all Europe? . . . Now once again by all concurrence of signs, and by the general instinct of holy and devout men, as they daily and solemnly express their...servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen? [Areopagitica] For it is in "this vast city, a city of refuge, the mansionhouse of liberty," that God...

...1'ad choise pur son heritage': Barnie, War in Medieval English Society, 102—3. 23 Ibid., 103:'. . . God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in his Church, ev'n to the reforming of Reformation itself: what does he then but reveal Himself to his servants,...

...divine favour from Israel to Britain made in George Wither's hymns48 and in Milton's famous sentences: God is decreeing to begin some new and great period...servants, and as his manner is. first to his Englishmen? . . . Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after...

...Now once again by all concurrence of signs, and by the generall instinct of holy and devout men . . . God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in his Church, ev'n to the reforming of Reformation it self: what does he then but reveal Himself to his servants,...

...of signs, and by the generall instinct of holy and devout men, as they daily and solemnly expresse their thoughts, God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in his Church, ev'n to the reforming of Reformation it self: what does he then but reveal Himself to his servants,...

...Christ and Antichrist.6 By the time that Milton, along with not a few of his countrymen, detected God 'decreeing to begin some new and great period in His church, even to the reforming of Reformation itelP, it seemed no more than to be expected that in revealing himself to his servants he should begin...

...the divine scheme of history. In its earlier stages it had seemed that, in the words of Areopagitica, 'God is decreeing to begin some new and great period...servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?' (ii. 5 5 3). The writing of Milton's pamphlets had seemed a compelling and imperative task to a poet...

...Now once again by all concurrence of signs, and by the general! instinct of holy and devout men . . . God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in his Church, ev'n to the reforming of Reformation it self: what does he then but reveal Himself to his servants,...