| Thomas Amory - Women - 1755 - 576 pages
...world to fave finners, and of confeqnence, our bufinefs muft be the labours of a penitential piety. To fear God, and keep his commandments, is the whole duty of man. From a conviction or Converfion, occafioned by the reveled doftrine of the gofpef, and by the holy... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1780 - 318 pages
...Now, .from all thefe premifes put together, Solomon infers this fhort conclufion in the text, — That to fear GOD, and keep his commandments, is the whole duty of man;— that, to be ferious in the matter of religion, and careful about our future ftates, is that which,... | |
| John Gill - Theology, Doctrinal - 1796 - 550 pages
...; for every man, as a creature of God, is subject to him, its Creator and Lawgiver, and to his kw: to fear God, and keep his commandments, is the whole duty of man ; and is the duty of every man ; and was the duty of Christ, as man. But besides this Christ was made... | |
| Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 442 pages
...author, in an academic way, difputes on both fides of the queftion ; and at laft concludes properly, that to " fear God and keep his commandments is the whole duty of man ; for God (fays he) will bring every work to judgment, and every fccret th!n¿, whether it be good,... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1803 - 566 pages
...all thefe premifes put together, Solomon infers this ffiort conclufion in the text, • .• ' T'liat to fear God, and keep his commandments, is the whole duty of man ; — that, to be ferious in the matter of religion-, and careful about our future ftate is that which,... | |
| Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1805 - 470 pages
...Now, from all these premises put together, SoIcmon infers this short conclusion in the text,— That to fear GoD, and keep his commandments, is the whole duty of man ; — that, to be serious in the matter of religion, and careful about our future states, is that which,... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1808 - 446 pages
...maintain for pre-eminence and distinction, we shall find at the conclusion of the whole scene, that to fear God and keep his commandments is the whole duty of man. SERMON XIII. On the BENEFITS to be derived from the HOUSE of MOURNING. ECCLESIASTES, vii. 2, 3, 4.... | |
| Benjamin Trumbull - Christian life - 1810 - 122 pages
...rejoice that he is on the throne of the universe, and study to know and obey his will in ajl things. To fear God and keep his commandments is the whole duty of man. . In discharging this, we ought to spend all the time of our sojourning in the present world. To open and... | |
| Joseph Lathrop - Congregational churches - 1810 - 408 pages
...good king of Ifrael promifed to teach children. He fays " I will teach you the fear of the Lord." *« To fear God, and keep his commandments, is the whole duty of man." i. You muft know, that there is a God ; a great, wife and good Being, who created you at firft, prefcrves... | |
| Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1814 - 270 pages
...Now, from all these premises put together, Solomon infers this short conclusion in the text, — That to " fear God, and .keep his commandments, is the " whole duty of man ;" — that, to be serious in the matter of religion, and careful about our future state, is that which,... | |
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