The Works of Bishop Sherlock: With Some Account of His Life, Summary of Each Discourse, Notes, &c, Volume 2A.J. Valpy, 1830 - Theology |
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... happiness . To make therefore his gods happy , he removed them from all government of men , and left men to shift as they could , without God or Providence , in the world . 6 The same thought has in all times been the refuge of sinners ...
... happiness . To make therefore his gods happy , he removed them from all government of men , and left men to shift as they could , without God or Providence , in the world . 6 The same thought has in all times been the refuge of sinners ...
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... may depend intirely on the event . With respect to private men , and their happiness or misery here ; if we consider how much every man's good or ill fortune in the world depends on variety of accidents , which DISCOURSE XXV . - PART 1 .
... may depend intirely on the event . With respect to private men , and their happiness or misery here ; if we consider how much every man's good or ill fortune in the world depends on variety of accidents , which DISCOURSE XXV . - PART 1 .
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... happier for their inquiries . The futility of their suggestions shown , who advise us to lay hold on the pleasures of life , or to rise above pain and sorrow , as though they were but phantoms of the imagination . We are not however to ...
... happier for their inquiries . The futility of their suggestions shown , who advise us to lay hold on the pleasures of life , or to rise above pain and sorrow , as though they were but phantoms of the imagination . We are not however to ...
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... happier man ? Though there is no comparison between the fear of temporal and of eternal death , we are to consider that ... happiness , and that the only true remedy against the ills of life is a sense of religion , and of the power and ...
... happier man ? Though there is no comparison between the fear of temporal and of eternal death , we are to consider that ... happiness , and that the only true remedy against the ills of life is a sense of religion , and of the power and ...
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... happier for their in- quiries ; still complaining , still calling out for help , and finding none . Some bid us lay hold of the good things of the world , and open our hearts to the pleasures of life . Wholesome ad- vice ! but where are ...
... happier for their in- quiries ; still complaining , still calling out for help , and finding none . Some bid us lay hold of the good things of the world , and open our hearts to the pleasures of life . Wholesome ad- vice ! but where are ...
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Page 228 - Let him that stole, steal no more, but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Page 323 - Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it but "sin
Page 474 - And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
Page 461 - Who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature ; for by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers ; all things were created by him, and for him; and he is before all things, and by him all things consist...
Page 14 - This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.
Page 416 - Whosoever . therefore shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father which is in heaven.
Page 359 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Page 323 - For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Page 346 - In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ : buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
Page 261 - Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath. But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming...