Essays in Divinity

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J. Tupling, 1855 - 245 páginas
 

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Página liii - ... a preacher in earnest; weeping sometimes for his auditory, sometimes with them; always preaching to himself, like an angel from a cloud, but in none; carrying some, as St. Paul was, to heaven in holy raptures, and enticing others by a sacred art and courtship to amend their lives: here picturing a vice so as to make it ugly to those that practised it, and a virtue, so as to make it beloved even by those that loved it not; and all this with a most particular grace and an inexpressible addition...
Página 3 - And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
Página lxxiii - I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it : for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.
Página lii - The church is the spouse of Christ : noble husbands do not easily admit defamations of their wives. Very religious kings may have had wives, that may have retained some tincture, some impressions of error, which they may have sucked in their infancy, from another church...
Página lvii - ... so tied with knots at his head and feet, and his hands so placed as dead bodies are usually fitted, to be shrouded and put into their coffin or grave.
Página 230 - I have armed my self with thy weapons against thee: Yet, O God, have mercy upon me, for thine own sake have mercy upon me. Let not sin and me be able to exceed thee, nor to defraud thee, nor to frustrate thy purposes: But let me, in despite of me, be of so much use to thy glory, that by thy mercy to my sin, other sinners may see how much sin thou canst pardon.
Página lvii - In this posture he was drawn at his just height ; and when the picture was fully finished, he caused it to be set by his bed-side, where it continued and became his hourly object till his death, and was then given to his dearest friend and executor Dr.
Página lxxi - Authors own hand : and, that they were the voluntary sacrifices of severall hours, when he had many debates betwixt God and himself, whether he were worthy, and competently learned to enter into Holy Orders.
Página 39 - But by these meditations we get no further, than to know what he doth, not what he is. But as by the use of the Compass, men safely dispatch Ulysses dangerous ten years travell in so many dayes, and have found out a new world richer than the old; so doth Faith, as soon as our hearts are touched with it, direct and inform...
Página 230 - I most humbly acknowledge and confesses that I have understood sin, by understanding thy laws and judgments; but have done against thy known and revealed will. Thou hast set up many candlesticks, and kindled many lamps in mee; but I have either blown them out, or carried them to guide me in by and forbidden ways.

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