Discourses on several important subjects. To which are added, 8 sermons preached at the lady Moyer's lecture, in the cathedral church of st. Paul, London, Volumen11745 |
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... Pleasure . Fourthly and lastly , To conclude with fome practical Advice . Let us reflect , that we cannot expect to be benefited by our Saviour , as a full Sa- crifice for Sin ; unless we imitate him , as a complete Model of Virtue ...
... Pleasure . Fourthly and lastly , To conclude with fome practical Advice . Let us reflect , that we cannot expect to be benefited by our Saviour , as a full Sa- crifice for Sin ; unless we imitate him , as a complete Model of Virtue ...
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... Pleasures have diffipated the Atten- tion of that bufy , idle Thing the Soul , ever active and at work , but feldom active to a- ny good Purpose ; this every Man can only know as to himself . But whether others have had all the fame ...
... Pleasures have diffipated the Atten- tion of that bufy , idle Thing the Soul , ever active and at work , but feldom active to a- ny good Purpose ; this every Man can only know as to himself . But whether others have had all the fame ...
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... Pleasures would be very flat and infipid ; unless they were quickened by a mixture of focial , friendly and liberal Pleafures , by the Thoughts of imparting them to , and sharing them with , thofe , whom we love and efteem . It is this ...
... Pleasures would be very flat and infipid ; unless they were quickened by a mixture of focial , friendly and liberal Pleafures , by the Thoughts of imparting them to , and sharing them with , thofe , whom we love and efteem . It is this ...
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... , bears so great a Sway ; it will be needless to observe , that when any one of the more enterprizing Vices , fuch as the Love of Honour , Mo- 4 ney , ney , or Pleasure , has got Footing , and 80 The Duty of an uniform.
... , bears so great a Sway ; it will be needless to observe , that when any one of the more enterprizing Vices , fuch as the Love of Honour , Mo- 4 ney , ney , or Pleasure , has got Footing , and 80 The Duty of an uniform.
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Jeremiah Seed. ney , or Pleasure , has got Footing , and SERM . IV . established it's Interefts ; it will supplant and turn out every Virtue : Just as one wicked Favourite , who has crept into his Mafter's Affections , will by degrees ...
Jeremiah Seed. ney , or Pleasure , has got Footing , and SERM . IV . established it's Interefts ; it will supplant and turn out every Virtue : Just as one wicked Favourite , who has crept into his Mafter's Affections , will by degrees ...
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Actions againſt anſwer Beauty becauſe Benevolence beſt Bleffings Cafe Cauſe Chriftian Confequence confider Confideration confiftent Courſe Daniel Waterland Defire Deity Diverfions Duty eafy eaſy Efteem elſe endeavour faid fame feems feldom felves ferve fettled feveral fhall fhew firſt folid fome fomething fometimes foon ftand ftill fuch fuffer fure give Goodneſs greateſt habitual Happineſs happy Heart himſelf Honour Ideas IIdly Inftance intereſted Irreligion itſelf juft juſt laft laſt leaft leaſt lefs Love Luftre Malice Mankind Meaſure Mifery Mind moft Morality moſt muft muſt Nature neceffary nefs never obferved occafional ourſelves Paffion Perfon Piety pleaſe Pleaſure pray Prayer prefent Principle publick racter raiſe Reaſon Religion Senfe Senſe SER.XIII SER.XIV SER.XVI SERM ſhall ſhould ſome Soul ſpeak Spirit ſuch Temper thefe themſelves theſe Things thofe thoſe Thoughts tion Truth ture Underſtanding uneafy univerfal unleſs uſe Vice Virtue whofe Wiſdom World
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Página 302 - Almighty Lord, who is a most strong tower to all them that put their trust in him, to whom all things in heaven, in earth, and under the earth, do bow and obey...
Página 208 - The fire of a glowing imagination (the property of youth) may make folly look pleasing, and lend a beauty to objects, which have none inherent in them ; just as the sun-beams may paint a cloud, and diversify it with beautiful stains of light, however dark, unsubstantial, and empty in itself. But nothing...
Página 9 - For if ye love them which love you, what reward have you ? do not even the publicans the same ? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others?
Página 41 - Neither was it mine adversary that did magnify himself against me; for then peradventure I would have hid myself from him : 14 But it was even thou, my companion, my guide, and mine own familiar friend.
Página 218 - ... humanity and generosity which are necessary to become a great fortune ; and of all those perfections, viz., moderation, humility, and temperance, which are necessary to bear a small one patiently ; but especially it is your duty to acquire a taste for those pleasures which, after they are tasted, go off agreeably, and leave behind them a grateful and delightful flavour on the mind.
Página 213 - Senfe is like current Coin ; we have, every Day, in the ordinary Occurrences of Life...
Página 219 - The justly valuing and duly using the Advantages enjoyed in a Place of Education. One considerable advantage is, that regular method of study, too much neglected in other places, which obtains here. Nothing is more common elsewhere, than for persons to plunge, at once, into the very depth of science, (far beyond their own,) without having learned the first rudiments : nothing more common, than for some to pass...
Página 209 - But nothing can shine with undiminished lustre, but religion and knowledge, which are essentially and intrinsically bright. Take it therefore for granted, which you will find by -experience, that nothing can be long entertaining, but what is in some measure beneficial ; because nothing else will bear a calm and sedate review.
Página 227 - ... thofe excellent Books, which contain a Confutation of them ; like Infects preferved for Ages in Amber, which otherwife would foon have returned to the common Mafs of Things. But a firm Belief of Chriftianity and a Practice fuitable to it will fupport and invigorate the Mind to the...
Página 217 - ... though nothing merely in order to be commended. That time, which others must employ in tilling the ground (which often deceives their expectation) with the sweat of their brow, they may lay out in cultivating the mind, a soil always grateful to the care of the tiller. The sum of what I would say...