Discourses on Several Important Subjects: To which are Added, Eight Sermons Preached at the Lady Moyer's Lecture, in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London |
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... Writing , con- fifteth in the Simple . For noble Actions and noble Qualities , like noble Thoughts , fupport themselves , they have an inherent Greatness and a native Luftre , which needs not foreign Pomp and borrowed Ornaments ...
... Writing , con- fifteth in the Simple . For noble Actions and noble Qualities , like noble Thoughts , fupport themselves , they have an inherent Greatness and a native Luftre , which needs not foreign Pomp and borrowed Ornaments ...
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... of Thought , inculcated excellent Rules of Morality in their Writings , have sometimes broke through them all in their Practice : The The Brightness of their Parts enabling them SERM . I. 26 The Notion of Pride ftated ,
... of Thought , inculcated excellent Rules of Morality in their Writings , have sometimes broke through them all in their Practice : The The Brightness of their Parts enabling them SERM . I. 26 The Notion of Pride ftated ,
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... Writing ; or the Juftness of that Judgment , which could with fo dexterous an Addrefs , with so easy , and I had almost said , so natural an Art , glide from the one to the other . The Author of the Pfalm had a Mind deeply tinctured ...
... Writing ; or the Juftness of that Judgment , which could with fo dexterous an Addrefs , with so easy , and I had almost said , so natural an Art , glide from the one to the other . The Author of the Pfalm had a Mind deeply tinctured ...
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... Writing , with á great many Inaccuracies and Inequalities , to a Middling Stile , though very faultlefs . In short , true Charity is to deteft nothing but Vice ; and to defpife nothing but con- tracted , illiberal Notions , which would ...
... Writing , with á great many Inaccuracies and Inequalities , to a Middling Stile , though very faultlefs . In short , true Charity is to deteft nothing but Vice ; and to defpife nothing but con- tracted , illiberal Notions , which would ...
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... Writings , that they have ex- preffed themselves with more Juftness of Thought concerning the Nature of God , than any other Compofitions whatever . What the Vanity of Science , falfely fo called , has afcribed to Nature , or to fecond ...
... Writings , that they have ex- preffed themselves with more Juftness of Thought concerning the Nature of God , than any other Compofitions whatever . What the Vanity of Science , falfely fo called , has afcribed to Nature , or to fecond ...
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Page 345 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Page 392 - Who being the Brightnefs of his Glory, and the exprefs Image of his Perfon, and upholding all Things by the Word of his Power, purged, or expiated, our Sins.
Page 175 - If I take the wings of the morning, and remain in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there also shall thy hand lead me, And thy right hand shall hold me.
Page 177 - But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, And my Lord hath forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child, That she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, Yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands ; Thy walls are continually before me.
Page 175 - Yea, the darkness is no darkness with Thee, but the night is as clear as the day : the darkness and light to Thee are both alike.
Page 121 - And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep. 32 And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.
Page 144 - For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.
Page 50 - Forgive them ; for they know not •what they do. And again, Father, into thy Hands I commend my Spirit.