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... purpose- ly affumed to draw us the nearer to him as God . He it was that diffeminated this doctrine , and that in order to the purifying to himself a peculiar people zea- lous of good works ; and certainly his choice abundant- ly ...
... purpose- ly affumed to draw us the nearer to him as God . He it was that diffeminated this doctrine , and that in order to the purifying to himself a peculiar people zea- lous of good works ; and certainly his choice abundant- ly ...
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... purpose to refresh and support him : those Joys which differ rather in degree than kind , from those which are to be his final portion . And that the Soul may not be too much incommoded in her house of clay , there is provifion made for ...
... purpose to refresh and support him : those Joys which differ rather in degree than kind , from those which are to be his final portion . And that the Soul may not be too much incommoded in her house of clay , there is provifion made for ...
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... purpose : eve- ry one of them exprefly fingling out fome irre- gular affection to combate and fubdue : fo that right Reason and They are evidently of a Sect and Party ,, infomuch that feveral of the ancientest Fathers of the Church ...
... purpose : eve- ry one of them exprefly fingling out fome irre- gular affection to combate and fubdue : fo that right Reason and They are evidently of a Sect and Party ,, infomuch that feveral of the ancientest Fathers of the Church ...
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... purpose towards them than utter excifion , he makes no approach towards the effential part of Repentance . He may bring out large Catalogues of his fins , and call them confessions ; but he may better exprefs his own fenfe , if he term ...
... purpose towards them than utter excifion , he makes no approach towards the effential part of Repentance . He may bring out large Catalogues of his fins , and call them confessions ; but he may better exprefs his own fenfe , if he term ...
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... purposes , though there remain nothing visible but their violation ; and fo will call themselves Chrifts Sheep , though their ... purpose , had it not had the auxiliary aid of fome commodious doctrines . My prefent defign is fo far from ...
... purposes , though there remain nothing visible but their violation ; and fo will call themselves Chrifts Sheep , though their ... purpose , had it not had the auxiliary aid of fome commodious doctrines . My prefent defign is fo far from ...
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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.