Christian Morals, Volume 2T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813 - Christian ethics |
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... persons who live in the world , and of over - rating our own exemption from prac- tices to which , from indolence , we have no inducement , and , from circumftances , no opportunity . When we compare our hearts and lives with thofe of ...
... persons who live in the world , and of over - rating our own exemption from prac- tices to which , from indolence , we have no inducement , and , from circumftances , no opportunity . When we compare our hearts and lives with thofe of ...
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... persons in question are influenced , feem to make their reverence for the Scriptures a ground for difallowing the agency of the spirit ; as if there were not the most perfect agreement between an appeal to the one and a belief in E 3 ...
... persons in question are influenced , feem to make their reverence for the Scriptures a ground for difallowing the agency of the spirit ; as if there were not the most perfect agreement between an appeal to the one and a belief in E 3 ...
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... persons are striking inftances how dexterously we contrive to turn the scale in our own favour , by balancing fome leffer fault to which we are not inclined , against fome ftrongly besetting wrong propenfity . We seldom soften down any ...
... persons are striking inftances how dexterously we contrive to turn the scale in our own favour , by balancing fome leffer fault to which we are not inclined , against fome ftrongly besetting wrong propenfity . We seldom soften down any ...
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... persons , in a dangerous sickness , repeat with entire self - application the glo- rious and hard - earned exultation of him ,. who , after unrivalled fufferings and unpa- ralleled fervices , after having been " in deaths oft , " after ...
... persons , in a dangerous sickness , repeat with entire self - application the glo- rious and hard - earned exultation of him ,. who , after unrivalled fufferings and unpa- ralleled fervices , after having been " in deaths oft , " after ...
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... , as a more humble and lefs hazardous ground of dependance ? Far be from me the uncharitable pre- fumption , that these fanguine persons are deftitute deftitute of principle , or void of right inten tions 100 THOUGHTS SUGGESTED TO.
... , as a more humble and lefs hazardous ground of dependance ? Far be from me the uncharitable pre- fumption , that these fanguine persons are deftitute deftitute of principle , or void of right inten tions 100 THOUGHTS SUGGESTED TO.
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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.