 | John Milton - 1892 - 654 pages
...as my thoughts are, all As my eternal purpose hath decreed. Man shall not quite be lost, but saved who will; Yet not of will in him, but grace in me Freely vouchsafed. Once more I will renew His lapsed powers, though forfeit, and enthralled By sin to foul... | |
 | A. J. A. Waldock - 1961 - 164 pages
...despite him, and soon we are back in the groove of divine egoism. Man shall not quite be lost, but sav'd who will, Yet not of will in him, but grace in me Freely voutsaft; once more I will renew His lapsed powers, though forfeit and enthrall'd By sin to foul exorbitant... | |
 | 1909 - 502 pages
...as my thoughts are, all As my eternal purpose hath decreed. Man shall not quite be lost, but saved who will ; Yet not of will in him, but grace in me Freely voutsafed. Once more I will renew His lapsed powers, though forfeit, and enthralled By sin to foul... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 1988 - 348 pages
...Paradise Lost (2.173-S2) summarizes the orthodox Puritan view: Man shall not quite be lost, but saved who will; Yet not of will in him, but grace in me Freely vouchsafed. Once more I will renew His lapsed powers, through forfeit, and enthralled By sin to foul... | |
 | Corinna Ruth - 2013 - 146 pages
...makes it clear that to be saved requires Man's willingness. "Man shall not quite be lost, but sav'd who will,/ Yet not of will in him, but grace in me/ Freely vouchsafed." God declares that nobody can be reprobated unless they do not repent of their sins. When... | |
 | Joseph Francis Kelly - 2002 - 260 pages
...poem gives a good summation of traditional Augustinianism. "Man shall not quite be lost, but saved who will, / Yet not of will in him, but grace in me / Freely vouchsafed" iШ.173,51. Milton did, however, add to the tradition by answering a question which had... | |
 | Sonja Hansard-Weiner - 2002 - 296 pages
...the Father defines the nature of that grace and its effect: Man shall not quite be lost, but saved who will. Yet not of will in him, but grace in me Freely vouchsafed (3: 173-75). Once again, we are invited first to read man as the active agent before discovering... | |
 | Neil Forsyth - 2003 - 398 pages
...as well as pedagogue).'7 Apart from his objectionable puns ("Man shall not quite be lost, but sav'd who will, / Yet not of will in him, but grace in me" [3.173-74 is another]), and in spite of the ambrosial fragrance that keeps being released in Heaven... | |
 | Earl Roy Miner, William Moeck, Steven Edward Jablonski - 2004 - 520 pages
...CENTURIES OF COMMENTARY As my Eternal purpose hath decreed: Man shall not quite be lost, but sav'd who will, Yet not of will in him, but grace in me ... (3.168-74) The rhetoricians devised names for all these devices. Language and rhetoric are central... | |
 | Robert Peter Kennedy, Kim Paffenroth, John Doody - 2006 - 430 pages
...view hearken back to Book 3 and God's prescience, even predetermination, that sinners "shall be sav'd who will, / Yet not of will in him, but grace in me." The most human experience of Book 10 and its heavenly frame of Books 3 and 1 1 are in tension with... | |
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By sin to foul exorbitant desires: Upheld by me, yet once more he shall stand On even ground against his mortal foe, By me upheld, that he may know how frail... 
