The Christian's Consolations Against the Fears of Death: With Seasonable Directions how to Prepare Ourselves to Die Well |
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Page xiii
... cause must also be attributed the extreme pleasure which he took in reading over his book of Consolations against the Fears of Death the year before he died ; often declaring to those about him , " That he praised God for having ...
... cause must also be attributed the extreme pleasure which he took in reading over his book of Consolations against the Fears of Death the year before he died ; often declaring to those about him , " That he praised God for having ...
Page xiv
... cause an inflammation on his lungs , and to bring on a continual fever . This blessed person himself was forced likewise to acknowledge , that in the excess of his zeal , " he had rather tempted God than relied upon his providence ...
... cause an inflammation on his lungs , and to bring on a continual fever . This blessed person himself was forced likewise to acknowledge , that in the excess of his zeal , " he had rather tempted God than relied upon his providence ...
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... cause , then , has the profane and worldly man to be seized with horror and dismay , who in the midst of his vain pomp and deceitful pleasures , may perceive the frightful hand of Death writing on every wall in his house , in capital ...
... cause , then , has the profane and worldly man to be seized with horror and dismay , who in the midst of his vain pomp and deceitful pleasures , may perceive the frightful hand of Death writing on every wall in his house , in capital ...
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... cause he thought the question deserved no answer , or rather because he had a mind to imitate the custom of the age he lived in , which for the most part conveyed its instructions by gestures and symbolical representa- tions : he ...
... cause he thought the question deserved no answer , or rather because he had a mind to imitate the custom of the age he lived in , which for the most part conveyed its instructions by gestures and symbolical representa- tions : he ...
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... cause to mourn for the day of our birth , as for the day of our death ; that humanity and immortality are incompatible , that death is a tribute we all owe to nature , that kings and the greatest em- perors are forced to pay it , as ...
... cause to mourn for the day of our birth , as for the day of our death ; that humanity and immortality are incompatible , that death is a tribute we all owe to nature , that kings and the greatest em- perors are forced to pay it , as ...
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