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 xxiv
... speaking or silent , whether inwardly or outwardly employed , we are equally offered up to the eternal Spirit , have our life in him , and from him , and are united to him by that spirit of prayer , which is the comfort , the support ...
... speaking or silent , whether inwardly or outwardly employed , we are equally offered up to the eternal Spirit , have our life in him , and from him , and are united to him by that spirit of prayer , which is the comfort , the support ...
Página 52
... speak . But , my friends , how am I surprised that I have not always had these thoughts ? For what is there in the ter- rors of death , in the vanities of life , or the necessities of piety , but what I might have as easily and fully ...
... speak . But , my friends , how am I surprised that I have not always had these thoughts ? For what is there in the ter- rors of death , in the vanities of life , or the necessities of piety , but what I might have as easily and fully ...
Página 55
... speak He lay convulsed about twelve hours , and then gave up the ghost . Now if every reader would imagine this Penitens to have been some particular acquaintance or relation of his , and fancy that he saw and heard all that is here de ...
... speak He lay convulsed about twelve hours , and then gave up the ghost . Now if every reader would imagine this Penitens to have been some particular acquaintance or relation of his , and fancy that he saw and heard all that is here de ...
Página 87
... speak well of it , and admire it in their imaginations ; but it cannot govern their hearts , and be the spirit of their actions , till they change their way of life , and let religion give laws to the use and spend- ing of their estates ...
... speak well of it , and admire it in their imaginations ; but it cannot govern their hearts , and be the spirit of their actions , till they change their way of life , and let religion give laws to the use and spend- ing of their estates ...
Página 160
... speak louder to us , than the daily dying and departure of our fellow - creatures does ? So that the one thing needful , or the great end of life , is not left to be discovered by fine reasoning , and deep reflections ; but is pressed ...
... speak louder to us , than the daily dying and departure of our fellow - creatures does ? So that the one thing needful , or the great end of life , is not left to be discovered by fine reasoning , and deep reflections ; but is pressed ...
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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.