A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of ChristiansT. Bedlington, 1821 - 274 páginas |
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Página xi
... less absurdity is specious and acute ; his manner is lively , his style forcible and clear ; and had not the vigour of his mind been clouded by en- thusiasm , he might be ranked with the most agreeable and ingenious writers of the times ...
... less absurdity is specious and acute ; his manner is lively , his style forcible and clear ; and had not the vigour of his mind been clouded by en- thusiasm , he might be ranked with the most agreeable and ingenious writers of the times ...
Página xxiv
... less , than what our blessed Redeem- er has called and qualified us to long and aspire after , in these words , " Thy kingdom come : thy will be done , on earth as in heaven . ' 99 last Near the conclusion of yours , you say , since ...
... less , than what our blessed Redeem- er has called and qualified us to long and aspire after , in these words , " Thy kingdom come : thy will be done , on earth as in heaven . ' 99 last Near the conclusion of yours , you say , since ...
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... less , just as it happens , some constantly , others only now and then , as it were chance . Now I ask how comes it that two in three of the men are guilty of so gross and profane a sin as this ? There is neither ig- norance nor human ...
... less , just as it happens , some constantly , others only now and then , as it were chance . Now I ask how comes it that two in three of the men are guilty of so gross and profane a sin as this ? There is neither ig- norance nor human ...
Página 62
... less care and application to business ; but they live thus because they want to grow rich in their trades , and to maintain their families in some such fig- ure and degree of finery , as a reasonable christian life had no occasion for ...
... less care and application to business ; but they live thus because they want to grow rich in their trades , and to maintain their families in some such fig- ure and degree of finery , as a reasonable christian life had no occasion for ...
Página 80
... less able , and less inclined to raise up our thoughts and affections to the things that are above . So that money thus spent , is not merely wasted or lost , but it is spent to bad purposes , and miserable effects , to the corruption ...
... less able , and less inclined to raise up our thoughts and affections to the things that are above . So that money thus spent , is not merely wasted or lost , but it is spent to bad purposes , and miserable effects , to the corruption ...
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Página 83 - Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was an hungered and ye gave me no meat ; I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink ; I was a stranger and ye took me not in ; naked and ye clothed me not ; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Página 186 - Yet, O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mighty, O holy and most merciful Saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death.
Página 181 - I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air : but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection : lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Página 92 - And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
Página 117 - Lord: 33 But he that is married caretb for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. 34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy, both in body and in spirit : but she that is married, careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
Página 146 - Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed : and I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth : lo, there thou hast that is thine.
Página 83 - ... and before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand. Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world...
Página 227 - IF ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth : For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Página xv - 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 314 - Lord thine oaths: but I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne: nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King. Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay; for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.