William Law, Nonjuror and Mystic: ... a Sketch of His Life, Character, and OpinionsLongmans, Green, 1881 - 462 páginas |
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... quoting : - I. To fix it deep in my mind that I have but one business upon my hands - to seek for eternal happiness by doing the will of God . II . To examine everything that relates to me in this view , as it serves or obstructs this ...
... quoting : - I. To fix it deep in my mind that I have but one business upon my hands - to seek for eternal happiness by doing the will of God . II . To examine everything that relates to me in this view , as it serves or obstructs this ...
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... ' 2 Byrom wrote this , April 27 , 1 Quoted in Mr. Wordsworth's interesting work on University Life in the Eighteenth Century , p . 34 . 2 Byrom's Journal , vol . i . part ii . p . 20 , 21 . ΙΟ His ' Degradation . ' 1713 , to his.
... ' 2 Byrom wrote this , April 27 , 1 Quoted in Mr. Wordsworth's interesting work on University Life in the Eighteenth Century , p . 34 . 2 Byrom's Journal , vol . i . part ii . p . 20 , 21 . ΙΟ His ' Degradation . ' 1713 , to his.
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... quoting : ' Dear Brother , -If your affairs will permit you to peruse the intent of this letter , you will oblige the affectionate writer . I have sent my mother such news as I am afraid she will be too much concerned at , which is the ...
... quoting : ' Dear Brother , -If your affairs will permit you to peruse the intent of this letter , you will oblige the affectionate writer . I have sent my mother such news as I am afraid she will be too much concerned at , which is the ...
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... Quoted in A Full Examination of Several Important Points relating to Church Authority , & c . , by Gilbert Burnet , 1718. See also Hoadly's Works , ii . 694-5 , where the bishop gives his reasons to Dr. Sherlock for not answer- ing Law ...
... Quoted in A Full Examination of Several Important Points relating to Church Authority , & c . , by Gilbert Burnet , 1718. See also Hoadly's Works , ii . 694-5 , where the bishop gives his reasons to Dr. Sherlock for not answer- ing Law ...
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... quoting several texts which speak of grace conferred through the Apostles ' hands , Law asks with fine irony , ' Do we not plainly want new Scrip- tures ? Must we not give up the apostles as furious High Church prelates , who aspired to ...
... quoting several texts which speak of grace conferred through the Apostles ' hands , Law asks with fine irony , ' Do we not plainly want new Scrip- tures ? Must we not give up the apostles as furious High Church prelates , who aspired to ...
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Página 111 - When at Oxford, I took up Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life, expecting to find it a dull book, (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry.
Página 112 - Call, is still read as a popular and powerful book of devotion. His precepts are rigid, but they are founded on the gospel; his satire is sharp, but it is drawn from the knowledge of human life; and many of his portraits are not unworthy of the pen of La Bruyere. If he finds a spark of piety in his reader's mind, he will soon kindle it to a flame; and a philosopher must allow that he exposes, with equal severity and truth, the strange contradiction between the faith and practice of the Christian...
Página 401 - Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings and ye would not!
Página 280 - A Demonstration of the gross and fundamental Errors of a late Book, called, "A plain Account of the Nature and End of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper," affectionately addressed to all Orders of Men, and more especially to all the younger Clergy, 1735,
Página 432 - If any man love me, my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
Página 428 - Thou, who hast given me eyes to see And love this sight so fair, Give me a heart to find out Thee And read Thee everywhere.
Página 231 - Almighty and everlasting God, who dost govern all things in heaven and earth ; Mercifully hear the supplications of thy people, and grant us thy peace all the days of our life ; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Página 83 - Why did I scarce ever hear you name the name of Christ? never, so as to ground anything upon "faith in his blood...
Página 31 - T enjoy the World's Conveniences, Be fam'd in War, yet live in Ease, Without great Vices, is a vain EUTOPIA seated in the Brain. Fraud, Luxury and Pride must live, While we the Benefits receive: Hunger's a dreadful Plague, no doubt Yet who digests or thrives without?
Página 231 - Him who desireth not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live...