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Page v
... pains : and as the greatest part of death is passed by the preceding years of our life , so also in those years are the greatest preparations to it ; and he that prepares not for death before his last sickness , is like him that begins ...
... pains : and as the greatest part of death is passed by the preceding years of our life , so also in those years are the greatest preparations to it ; and he that prepares not for death before his last sickness , is like him that begins ...
Page ix
... pain , when it refers to this life and another ; but to dream of a punishment temporai when all his time is done , and to think of repentance when the time of grace is past , are great errors - the b one in philosophy , and both in ...
... pain , when it refers to this life and another ; but to dream of a punishment temporai when all his time is done , and to think of repentance when the time of grace is past , are great errors - the b one in philosophy , and both in ...
Page 9
... pain- ful birth , and a sadder death . There is no state , no accident , no circumstance of our life , but it hath been soured by some sad instance of a dying friend : a friendly meeting often ends in some sad mischance , and makes an ...
... pain- ful birth , and a sadder death . There is no state , no accident , no circumstance of our life , but it hath been soured by some sad instance of a dying friend : a friendly meeting often ends in some sad mischance , and makes an ...
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... pains to heap up things useful to our life , and get our death in the purchase ; and the person is snatched away , and the goods remain . And all this is the law and constitution of nature , it is a punish- ment to our sins , the ...
... pains to heap up things useful to our life , and get our death in the purchase ; and the person is snatched away , and the goods remain . And all this is the law and constitution of nature , it is a punish- ment to our sins , the ...
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... painful person , and a great clerk , and in the days of his manhood he wrote so many books , and they not ill ones , that the world computed a sheet for every day of his life ; I suppose they meant , after he came to the use of reason ...
... painful person , and a great clerk , and in the days of his manhood he wrote so many books , and they not ill ones , that the world computed a sheet for every day of his life ; I suppose they meant , after he came to the use of reason ...
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Page 322 - Now the God of peace that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to "Whom be glory for ever and ever, amen
Page 321 - Lord, save thy people : and bless thine heritage. Govern them : and lift them up for ever. Day by day : we magnify thee ; And we worship thy Name : ever world without end. Vouchsafe, O Lord : to keep us this day without sin. O Lord, have mercy upon us : have mercy upon us. O Lord, let thy mercy lighten upon us : as our trust is in thee. O Lord, in thee have I trusted : let me never be confounded.
Page 176 - Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger. Thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
Page 174 - The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; Therefore will I hope in him. The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, To the soul that seeketh him.
Page 18 - There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labour.
Page 188 - Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth, Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Page 312 - I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
Page 9 - ... full with the dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and at night having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces.
Page 176 - For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
Page 243 - For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.