Christian Morals, Volume 2T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813 - Christian ethics |
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... whose want of it arifes from the irruptions of their own paffions . Peace is no local circumftance . It does not depend on the fituation of the house , but of the heart . True True quiet is only to be found in the extir 40 ON RETIREMENT .
... whose want of it arifes from the irruptions of their own paffions . Peace is no local circumftance . It does not depend on the fituation of the house , but of the heart . True True quiet is only to be found in the extir 40 ON RETIREMENT .
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... whose practice , confequently , has not been high , to combine with this mediocrity of character the most exalted expectation of future recompence ; to couple a comparatively low faith and con- duct with those lofty promifes which the ...
... whose practice , confequently , has not been high , to combine with this mediocrity of character the most exalted expectation of future recompence ; to couple a comparatively low faith and con- duct with those lofty promifes which the ...
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... whose emptiness I have been approving ? Shall I extol the writer who ftrips off its painted mask from the world , and yet act as if the morning lecture had brought no such discovery ? Nay , perhaps , it it may be one of my subjects of ...
... whose emptiness I have been approving ? Shall I extol the writer who ftrips off its painted mask from the world , and yet act as if the morning lecture had brought no such discovery ? Nay , perhaps , it it may be one of my subjects of ...
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... whose case we have been confidering , complain , if theirs are not all halcyon days , if their clofing hour is rather contrite than triumphant ? But this , if it be not a state of joy , may be equally a state of safety . The duty of ...
... whose case we have been confidering , complain , if theirs are not all halcyon days , if their clofing hour is rather contrite than triumphant ? But this , if it be not a state of joy , may be equally a state of safety . The duty of ...
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... whose hearts are ingenuous , and whofe manners amiable , in whom , if wrong propenfities discover themselves , yet evil habits are not fubftantially formed -- could you be made sensible , at a less costly price than your own experience ...
... whose hearts are ingenuous , and whofe manners amiable , in whom , if wrong propenfities discover themselves , yet evil habits are not fubftantially formed -- could you be made sensible , at a less costly price than your own experience ...
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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.