Christian Morals, Volume 2T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813 - Christian ethics |
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... motives for the purposes of retreat , but he does not seem to affign the higheft . Should he not have added , in conjunction with the objects he enumerates , what fhould be the leading ob- ject of the retirement of the good , the study ...
... motives for the purposes of retreat , but he does not seem to affign the higheft . Should he not have added , in conjunction with the objects he enumerates , what fhould be the leading ob- ject of the retirement of the good , the study ...
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... motives of religion , when we are only feek- ing a more agreeable mode of life . Or we may be flying from duty , when we ... motive when we are acting from another . The defign may be even good , but let us not deceive ourselves with the ...
... motives of religion , when we are only feek- ing a more agreeable mode of life . Or we may be flying from duty , when we ... motive when we are acting from another . The defign may be even good , but let us not deceive ourselves with the ...
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... motive of " Soul , take thine ease , " though neither covetousness nor fenfuality be the prompting principle , if ... motives of an inferior nature ; far from thinking that we are not justified in preferring a tranquil to a bustling ...
... motive of " Soul , take thine ease , " though neither covetousness nor fenfuality be the prompting principle , if ... motives of an inferior nature ; far from thinking that we are not justified in preferring a tranquil to a bustling ...
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... motive yet quieting principle which alone delivers a man from perturbation in the world and inanity in retirement ; without it , he will in the one cafe be hurried into impetuofity , or in the other be funk into stagnation . But ...
... motive yet quieting principle which alone delivers a man from perturbation in the world and inanity in retirement ; without it , he will in the one cafe be hurried into impetuofity , or in the other be funk into stagnation . But ...
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... motives of the most fublime felf - denial ! Doubtless they crowd to these joyless abodes , because they could find at home no diftreffes to be relieved , no innocence to be protected , no wrongs to be redreffed , no ignorance to be ...
... motives of the most fublime felf - denial ! Doubtless they crowd to these joyless abodes , because they could find at home no diftreffes to be relieved , no innocence to be protected , no wrongs to be redreffed , no ignorance to be ...
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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.