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... case : but rather take pattern from Nineveh ; cry , and cry mightily to God , joyn humiliation to our prayers , and reformation to both . And could we be perfwaded to do this with the fame fincerity , and univerfality , we might hope it ...
... case : but rather take pattern from Nineveh ; cry , and cry mightily to God , joyn humiliation to our prayers , and reformation to both . And could we be perfwaded to do this with the fame fincerity , and univerfality , we might hope it ...
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... cases re pair the injur'd perfon : but then that is owing to the Juftice of the Law , not to the malice of the Plaintiffe : for he that fues upon the naked intui- tion of recovering his Right , without any aspect of Revenge on the ...
... cases re pair the injur'd perfon : but then that is owing to the Juftice of the Law , not to the malice of the Plaintiffe : for he that fues upon the naked intui- tion of recovering his Right , without any aspect of Revenge on the ...
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... case of him who entertains one fin , his enclosure is broken down , and he's a common for all : he is left deftitute of a reply to any temptation , and like a bashful per- fon will be in danger of yielding , because he is afham'd to ...
... case of him who entertains one fin , his enclosure is broken down , and he's a common for all : he is left deftitute of a reply to any temptation , and like a bashful per- fon will be in danger of yielding , because he is afham'd to ...
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... case , which we find warrantably us'd in another , Fo.21 . that even the world its felf could not contain the Books which have been written . As it is , there are more than enough to employ , nay , devour time ; for when men once launch ...
... case , which we find warrantably us'd in another , Fo.21 . that even the world its felf could not contain the Books which have been written . As it is , there are more than enough to employ , nay , devour time ; for when men once launch ...
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... cases actually promote and excite them . For when they fee a licentious person whofe acqueft ' they judge beneficial to their caufe , they have artifices of fomenting his riots , do not only take off the bridle , but ufe the Spur also ...
... cases actually promote and excite them . For when they fee a licentious person whofe acqueft ' they judge beneficial to their caufe , they have artifices of fomenting his riots , do not only take off the bridle , but ufe the Spur also ...
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Page 5 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes : but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 405 - Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them; wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
Page 10 - For, we know that if our earthly houfe of this tabernacle were diflblved, we have a building of GOD, an houfe not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Page 236 - Let us fall into the hands of God, and not into the hands of men; for they are severe and cruel judges of each other.•
Page 406 - If there be therefore any confolation in Chrift, if any comfort. of love, if any fellow/hip of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies ; fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like minded, having the fame love, being of one accord, of one mind.
Page 247 - Certainly," says Bishop Fell, " the first propagators of our faith proceeded at another rate ; they well knew, that not the brain but'the heart was the proper soil of that celestial plant, and therefore did not amuse their proselytes with curious questions, but set them to the active part of their religion.