Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. Charles Buck, Author of the Theological Dictionary, Containing the Young Christian's Guide; Or, Suitable Directions, Cautions, and Encouragement, to the Believer on His First Entrance Into the Divine Life, a Treatise on Religious Experience: in which Its Nature, Evidences, and Advantages, are Considered; Together with Anecdotes, Religious, Moral, and Entertaining, Alphabetically Arranged, and Interpersed with a Variety of Useful Observations, Volume 3W.W. Woodward, 1808 - Children |
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... speak so , the li and soul of society and it will be said you a not solid ; you have the unworthy ambition becoming the amusement of mankind . Put an austere air ; engrave on your countenance , I may speak thus , the great truths that ...
... speak so , the li and soul of society and it will be said you a not solid ; you have the unworthy ambition becoming the amusement of mankind . Put an austere air ; engrave on your countenance , I may speak thus , the great truths that ...
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... speak freely only to lect friends , who will bear with your weak- and who know your good qualities ; and be accused of pride and arrogance : it said , that you think the rest of mankind y of your company ; and that you pre- dom and ...
... speak freely only to lect friends , who will bear with your weak- and who know your good qualities ; and be accused of pride and arrogance : it said , that you think the rest of mankind y of your company ; and that you pre- dom and ...
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... speaking ? Come , tell me what good qualit you have remarked about him . " One wo think this monarch had learnt that precept " Speak not evil one of another . " The famous Boerhaave was one not easily m ved by detraction . He used to ...
... speaking ? Come , tell me what good qualit you have remarked about him . " One wo think this monarch had learnt that precept " Speak not evil one of another . " The famous Boerhaave was one not easily m ved by detraction . He used to ...
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... speak aloud . This n only exercises the lungs , but almost the who body . Hence studious people are greatly ben fited by delivering discourses in public . Publ speakers , indeed , sometimes hurt themselves b over - acting their part ...
... speak aloud . This n only exercises the lungs , but almost the who body . Hence studious people are greatly ben fited by delivering discourses in public . Publ speakers , indeed , sometimes hurt themselves b over - acting their part ...
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... speak on this subject . In the conversation , of the opponents of the dissenters , he O - n these wretches , for they are mad . ” ve , who was no stranger to the nobleman , great satisfaction in the thought , that a God who governs the ...
... speak on this subject . In the conversation , of the opponents of the dissenters , he O - n these wretches , for they are mad . ” ve , who was no stranger to the nobleman , great satisfaction in the thought , that a God who governs the ...
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Page 104 - For every man shall bear his own burden. 6 Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.
Page 319 - Her ways. are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
Page 214 - ... palaces, navigation, &c. but now sallow, &c. are rejected, and nothing but oak any where regarded ; and yet see the change ; for when our houses were builded of willow, then had we oaken men ; but now that our houses are come to be made of oak, our men are not only become willow, but a great many altogether of straw, which is a sore alteration.
Page 101 - And it is pity that commonly more care is had, yea, and that amongst very wise men, to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.
Page 313 - Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess ; but be filled with the spirit...
Page 204 - He pleaded with the same sincerity that he used in the other parts of his life, and used to say : — It was as great a dishonour as a man was capable of, that for a little money he was to be hired to say or do otherwise than as he thought.
Page 148 - Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Page 188 - He was once a man ; and of some little name ; but of no worth, as his present unparalleled case makes but too manifest ; for by the immediate hand of an avenging God, his very thinking substance has for more than seven years been continually wasting away, till it is wholly perished out of him, if it be not utterly come to nothing.
Page 34 - For my part, when I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes.
Page 26 - If any man seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.