Christian Morals, Volume 2T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813 - Christian ethics |
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... its high but eccentric profeffors : these they affect to believe , are fair fpecimens of the fo much vaunted religious world . Instead of inquir- D 6 * inquiring what is the true fcriptural view of Christianity PEOPLE ARE NOT BETTER . 59.
... its high but eccentric profeffors : these they affect to believe , are fair fpecimens of the fo much vaunted religious world . Instead of inquir- D 6 * inquiring what is the true fcriptural view of Christianity PEOPLE ARE NOT BETTER . 59.
Page 77
... believe ; but they affent to it with implicitness , rather than conviction , and if they do allow the inter- vention of the Holy Spirit , they attach an undue value to human agency . If they say , they are far from excluding heavenly ...
... believe ; but they affent to it with implicitness , rather than conviction , and if they do allow the inter- vention of the Holy Spirit , they attach an undue value to human agency . If they say , they are far from excluding heavenly ...
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... believe , that there is nothing which the better fort of this class dread more than hypocrify . But do they not fometimes dread the imputation almost as much as the thing ? And is it not to be feared that , with the dread of this odious ...
... believe , that there is nothing which the better fort of this class dread more than hypocrify . But do they not fometimes dread the imputation almost as much as the thing ? And is it not to be feared that , with the dread of this odious ...
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... believe it to be truth . There is even much that is right in them ; but are they not too easily fatisfied with a low measure of that right , without examining accurately the quality of the practice , merely because it is not ...
... believe it to be truth . There is even much that is right in them ; but are they not too easily fatisfied with a low measure of that right , without examining accurately the quality of the practice , merely because it is not ...
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... believe its external evidences , endeavour to gain also an internal conviction that it is true . Examine also into the prin- ciple of your best actions . Even some who have made a more confiderable proficiency , are too apt to defer ...
... believe its external evidences , endeavour to gain also an internal conviction that it is true . Examine also into the prin- ciple of your best actions . Even some who have made a more confiderable proficiency , are too apt to defer ...
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Page 276 - God, the strength of all them that put their trust in thee, mercifully accept our prayers ; and because through the weakness of our mortal nature we can do no good thing without thee, grant us the help of thy grace...
Page 276 - GRANT to us, Lord, we beseech thee, the spirit to think and do always such things as be rightful; that we, who cannot do any thing that is good without thee, may by thee be enabled to live . according to thy will ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 211 - Preacher himself had sometimes forgotten, that the whole duty of man is to fear God, and keep his commandments...
Page 56 - talk of the words" which were commanded under that dispensation, •wken they sit in their house, and •when they walk by the way, and when they lie down, and when they rise up.