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... to be out - dated ; vice daily gaining not only ftrength , but impudence : nay we are not only become witneffes against our felves by declaring our Sin as So- A dom , dom , but we have forced God alfo to attest Reg . Spec . 98 .
... to be out - dated ; vice daily gaining not only ftrength , but impudence : nay we are not only become witneffes against our felves by declaring our Sin as So- A dom , dom , but we have forced God alfo to attest Reg . Spec . 98 .
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... alaẞ appears to be our cafe : we have long indulg'd to our felves the breach of all Divine laws , gratified every appetite , every paffion and luft with the forfeiture of of our allegiance , and as if this would not THE PREFACE .
... alaẞ appears to be our cafe : we have long indulg'd to our felves the breach of all Divine laws , gratified every appetite , every paffion and luft with the forfeiture of of our allegiance , and as if this would not THE PREFACE .
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... felves , as to difpleafe him ; profeß a contempt not only of his commands , but himself ; and feek no less to dethrone Him , than abrogate those . Thus have we made it a kind of perfonal quarrel , and by thofe impious blafphemies we ...
... felves , as to difpleafe him ; profeß a contempt not only of his commands , but himself ; and feek no less to dethrone Him , than abrogate those . Thus have we made it a kind of perfonal quarrel , and by thofe impious blafphemies we ...
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... felves . When God fees we will suffer no- thing by way of confent and fympathy with others , ' tis but equal we have our part in a more direct and imme- diate infliction , and feel what we would not compaffio- nate . Thucydides mentions ...
... felves . When God fees we will suffer no- thing by way of confent and fympathy with others , ' tis but equal we have our part in a more direct and imme- diate infliction , and feel what we would not compaffio- nate . Thucydides mentions ...
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... felves than them in this neg- lect ; the office being no leß defigned for Antidote than cure , to prevent the Judgement where it is not , than to remove it where it is : and if we will neither deprecate on our own behalfs , nor ...
... felves than them in this neg- lect ; the office being no leß defigned for Antidote than cure , to prevent the Judgement where it is not , than to remove it where it is : and if we will neither deprecate on our own behalfs , nor ...
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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.