Christian Morals, Volume 2T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813 - Christian ethics |
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... however innocently , our own ease or convenience . In retreating into the country for peace of mind , the temper you would find you must carry thither . Those B 3 who who retire on no other principle but to escape trouble ON RETIREMENT .
... however innocently , our own ease or convenience . In retreating into the country for peace of mind , the temper you would find you must carry thither . Those B 3 who who retire on no other principle but to escape trouble ON RETIREMENT .
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... 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 , yet its ...
... 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 , yet its ...
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... tempers , and weakneffes , which we had proposed to leave behind us , without the fame pretence of wanting time to watch against them . If we fettle down in petty fyftematic trifling , it is not the fize of the concern , but the fpirit ...
... tempers , and weakneffes , which we had proposed to leave behind us , without the fame pretence of wanting time to watch against them . If we fettle down in petty fyftematic trifling , it is not the fize of the concern , but the fpirit ...
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... temper . Without this corrective , even the manners may grow auftere , and the language harfh . But while the benevo- lent affections are kept in exercise , and the kindly offices of humanity in operation , there will be little danger ...
... temper . Without this corrective , even the manners may grow auftere , and the language harfh . But while the benevo- lent affections are kept in exercise , and the kindly offices of humanity in operation , there will be little danger ...
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... 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- vation of that principle , which alone can effectually smooth down the ...
... 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- vation of that principle , which alone can effectually smooth down the ...
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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.