XXIV. PLAGIARISM

1. Eikonoclastes (23), Works 3.488:

He borrows David's Psalms, as he charges the assembly of divines in his twentieth discourse, to have set forth old catechisms and confessions of faith new-dressed. Had he borrowed David's heart, it had been much the holier theft; for such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is accounted plagiary.

XXV. NATURE

A. NATURE AS INSTINCT.

1. Animadversions, Works 3.216:

Open your eyes to the light of grace, a better guide than nature.

2. P. R. 4.221-228:

Be famous, then,

By wisdom; as thy empire must extend,
So let extend thy mind o'er all the world
In knowledge; all things in it comprehend.
All knowledge is not couched in Moses' law,
The Pentateuch, or what the Prophets wrote;
The Gentiles also know, and write, and teach
To admiration, led by nature's light.

3. Church-Gov. (Bk. 2), Works 3.145:

Whether the rules of Aristotle...are strictly to be kept, or nature to be followed.

4. An Apology, Works 3.269:

Others were the smooth elegiac poets,...whom...for the pleasing sound of their numerous writing, which in imitation I found most easy, and most agreeable to nature's part in me, I was so allured to read.

And see X. 2; XI. C. 6; D. i. 1.

B. NATURE AS THE FORCE AND PROCESS OF UNIVERSAL ORDER AND Law.

1. Christian Doctrine (Bk. 1, chap. 2) 1.17:

[Nature] means either the essence of a thing, or that general law which is the origin of everything, and under which everything acts.

2. P. L. 6.176:

God and nature bid the same.

3.

Christian Doctrine (Bk. 1, chap. 8) 1. 282-283:

The providence of God is either ordinary or extraordinary. His ordinary providence is that whereby He upholds and preserves the immutable order of causes appointed by Him in the beginning. This is commonly, and indeed too frequently, described by the name of nature; for nature cannot possibly mean anything but the mysterious power and efficacy of that divine voice which went forth in the beginning, and to which, as to a perpetual command, all things have since paid obedience. ...The extraordinary providence of God is that whereby God produces some effect out of the usual order of nature....This is what we call a miracle.

4. Christian Doctrine (Bk. 1, chap. 2) 1.16:

The Deity has imprinted upon the human mind so many unquestionable tokens of Himself, and so many traces of Him are apparent throughout the whole of nature, that no one in his senses can remain ignorant of the truth.

5. P. L. 12.13, 22-29:

This second source of men,. . .

Shall spend their days in joy unblamed, and dwell

Long time in peace, by families and tribes,

Under paternal rule, till one shall rise,

Of proud, ambitious heart, who, not content

With fair equality, fraternal state,

Will arrogate dominion undeserved
Over his brethren, and quite dispossess

Concord and law of nature from the earth.

6. P. L. 11.589-600:

Such happy interview, and fair event

Of love and youth not lost, songs, garlands, flowers,
And charming symphonies, attached the heart
Of Adam, soon inclined to admit delight,
The bent of nature; which he thus expressed:
"True opener of mine eyes, prime Angel blest,
Much better seems this vision, and more hope
Of peaceful days portends, than those two past.
Those were of hate and death, or pain much worse;
Here nature seems fulfilled in all her ends.'

To whom thus Michael: 'Judge not what is best
By pleasure, though to Nature seeming meet.'

7. P. L. 3.455-459:

All the unaccomplished works of nature's hand,
Abortive, monstrous, or unkindly mixed,
Dissolved on earth, fleet hither, and in vain,

Till final dissolution, wander here

Not in the neighboring moon, as some have dreamed.

C. NATURE IN VARIOUS SENSES AS OPPOSED TO ART.

See II. E. 1-6; VIII. A. 1; XI. D. i. 1.

Bucer: Divorce =

The Judgment of Martin Bucer Concerning Divorce.

Christian Doctrine = De Doctrina Christiana.

Church-Gov. = The Reason of Church-Government Urged against Prelaty. Civil Power A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes.

Damon.

1 Defence

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Epitaphium Damonis.

Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio. (Under the same abbreviation references are also given to Milton's English version of the first Defence).

2 Defence

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Defensio Secunda pro Populo Anglicano. Divorce The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce.

Easy Way = The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth.

Hirelings

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Considerations Touching the Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings out of the Church.

Hist. Brit. = The History of Britain, that Part especially now Called

England.

Il Pens. Il Penseroso.

L'All. = L'Allegro.

Moscovia = A Brief History of Moscovia.

Nativity = On the Morning of Christ's Nativity.

Ormond Observations on the Articles of Peace between James Earl of Ormond ... and the Irish.

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Auctoris Prolusiones Quaedam Oratoriae.

Pro Se Defensio = Auctoris pro Se Defensio contra Alexandrum Morum, Reformation Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England. S. A. = Samson Agonistes.

Solemn Music = At a Solemn Music.

Tenure The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates.

Vacation = At a Vacation Exercise.