Christian Morals, Volume 2T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813 - Christian ethics |
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... evil tempers , folitude is the worst choice he could make . It may , indeed , through the grace of God , be made eventually beneficial : for though his interior burthen , fo far from being lightened , will be more oppreffively felt ...
... evil tempers , folitude is the worst choice he could make . It may , indeed , through the grace of God , be made eventually beneficial : for though his interior burthen , fo far from being lightened , will be more oppreffively felt ...
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Hannah More. True quiet is only to be found in the extir pation of evil tempers , in the victory over unruly appetites ; it is found , not merely in the absence of temptation , but in the do minion of religion . It arifes from the culti ...
Hannah More. True quiet is only to be found in the extir pation of evil tempers , in the victory over unruly appetites ; it is found , not merely in the absence of temptation , but in the do minion of religion . It arifes from the culti ...
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... evil purfues the man .. Far as th ' equator thrice to the utmost pole . All experience , all history , especially that history which is fupremely the record of truth , ་ truth , roufes us from the bewitching dream , ON RETIREMENT . 43.
... evil purfues the man .. Far as th ' equator thrice to the utmost pole . All experience , all history , especially that history which is fupremely the record of truth , ་ truth , roufes us from the bewitching dream , ON RETIREMENT . 43.
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... evil . These writers do not always oppose it , but they have no- thing to do with it ; they virtually fay , we have not fo much as heard whether there be any Christianity . We are far from meaning that religion ought to be , or that it ...
... evil . These writers do not always oppose it , but they have no- thing to do with it ; they virtually fay , we have not fo much as heard whether there be any Christianity . We are far from meaning that religion ought to be , or that it ...
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... evil has touched its ultimate point , May we not prefume , that the practice may make a gradual retroceffion to found prin- ciple ? In these , and fimilar writers , no one . but fees that the road to heaven is made far more smooth and ...
... evil has touched its ultimate point , May we not prefume , that the practice may make a gradual retroceffion to found prin- ciple ? In these , and fimilar writers , no one . but fees that the road to heaven is made far more smooth and ...
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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.