 | John Edward Nassau Molesworth - Advent sermons - 1825 - 478 pages
...are doing what he has enjoined and recommended in his Scriptures : they are doing their " duty, in that state of life, to which it has pleased" him " to call them." If, indeed, the care of their families lead them to acts of dishonesty, to the practice of wickedness,... | |
 | John Edward Nassau Molesworth - 1838 - 416 pages
...They are doing what He has enjoined and recommended in His Scriptures : they are doing their " duty in that state of life to which it has pleased" Him " to call them." If, indeed, the care of their families lead them to acts of dishonesty, to the practice of wickedness,... | |
 | 1842 - 300 pages
...our Queen, our Country, and our Church ; all may, with God's blessing, learn to " do their duty in that state of life to which it has pleased him to call them ;" all may, if they will, attend to the wholesome warning of the wisest of men : — " My son,... | |
 | Christmas holidays - 1848 - 204 pages
...but pray and strive against them ; and we shall inquire how we may live most to the glory of God in that state of life to which it has pleased him to call us, and try to devote our time and our talents to his service, so that whether we live, we may live unto... | |
 | Michael Wilkinson - 1859 - 304 pages
...within his observation in after life, — observing, as he was wont, that we are bound to serve God " in that state of life to which it has pleased Him to call us," until His providence distinctly and unmistakeably calls us out of it. Moreover, he was now occupying... | |
 | Josiah Edward Golding - 1860 - 440 pages
...miraculously, excepting in cases of corresponding difficulty, but that God will help our honourable industry in that state of life to which it has pleased him to call us. Certainly, the idle man, the profligate, the spendthrift, the determined pursuer of pleasure, who rejects... | |
 | George James Cowley- Brown - Bible - 1863 - 538 pages
...to every one of us a work to do for Him, so long as we continue in the world; even to do our duty in that state of life to which it has pleased Him to call us. Happy they who set about it resolutely at once ; neither shrinking from it, nor postponing • it till... | |
 | Legh Richmond - 1866 - 90 pages
...wish and strive in my poor way to serve him, to give myself up to him, and to labour to do my duty in that state of life to which it has pleased him to call me. A thousand times I should have fallen and fainted, if he had not upheld me. I feel that I am nothing... | |
 | Few plain sermons - 1867 - 218 pages
...we are doing good and abstaining from sin, obeying the great moral law of God, and doing our duty in that state of life to which it has pleased Him to call us, then, and then only, are we doing the will of our Heavenly Father. No elevation of sentiment, no effervescence... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - England - 1874 - 348 pages
...ranks to carry out His purposes, and we have His word to tell us that we should all do our duties in that state of life to which it has pleased Him to call us." The excellent lady was somewhat among the clouds in her theology, and apt to mingle the different sources... | |
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I grant that we may have hardship to combat, difficulties to overcome, occasional disappointments and losses to bear up against ; but let us recollect how greatly we have, through Providence, been already assisted and encouraged, how much help we have... 
