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... thoughts of Vertue into their minds , who forgot their Duty and their God in affluence and quiet : I am apt to think a Difcourfe of this Kind seasonable enough at this time . Almighty God give you some re- * The late Fire pair for your ...
... thoughts of Vertue into their minds , who forgot their Duty and their God in affluence and quiet : I am apt to think a Difcourfe of this Kind seasonable enough at this time . Almighty God give you some re- * The late Fire pair for your ...
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... thoughts , that it is an act of the great- eft indulgence : by no means the laying on a new burden , but the furnishing us with an Engine to bear with ease that weight which otherwise the ftouteft Atlas muft fink under . And were but ...
... thoughts , that it is an act of the great- eft indulgence : by no means the laying on a new burden , but the furnishing us with an Engine to bear with ease that weight which otherwise the ftouteft Atlas muft fink under . And were but ...
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... thought a full compliance with all the Negative precepts : fo that we fee Chrift is fain to affert the Internal part of the Obligation , and extend the duty to the thoughts and inclinations . Befides , thofe acts of vertue they perform ...
... thought a full compliance with all the Negative precepts : fo that we fee Chrift is fain to affert the Internal part of the Obligation , and extend the duty to the thoughts and inclinations . Befides , thofe acts of vertue they perform ...
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... thoughts , long before , Pfal . 139. 1 . forefaw , that notwithstanding this propofal of a Canaan , there would be Rubenites and Gadites , who would fet up their reft on this fide of Jordan ; fo intent on the commodity of their Cattle ...
... thoughts , long before , Pfal . 139. 1 . forefaw , that notwithstanding this propofal of a Canaan , there would be Rubenites and Gadites , who would fet up their reft on this fide of Jordan ; fo intent on the commodity of their Cattle ...
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... thought rather a mystery of iniquity than godliness . THUS is Ghrift wounded in the house of his friends , and has more reproach caft on him by thofe that profefs his name , than by the loudest blafphemies of those that oppose it . For ...
... thought rather a mystery of iniquity than godliness . THUS is Ghrift wounded in the house of his friends , and has more reproach caft on him by thofe that profefs his name , than by the loudest blafphemies of those that oppose it . For ...
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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.