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... distract us , and marr the perfor- mance we are about , as colour mil - placed in the face does the beauty : So then , God's worship must be performed , not only ex- ternally , but internally too , in decency and order : And we muft not ...
... distract us , and marr the perfor- mance we are about , as colour mil - placed in the face does the beauty : So then , God's worship must be performed , not only ex- ternally , but internally too , in decency and order : And we muft not ...
Page 63
... distract our attention ; or , like Abra- ham's fowls , in flocks , to peck at and deform our facrifice . And thus , again , it is in that other branch of religious duty , hearing of the word ; for no doubt but any man , upon a juft ...
... distract our attention ; or , like Abra- ham's fowls , in flocks , to peck at and deform our facrifice . And thus , again , it is in that other branch of religious duty , hearing of the word ; for no doubt but any man , upon a juft ...
Page 66
... DISTRACTING Thoughts in prayer are very much owing to that natural averfion we obferved in us to things fpiritual and divine : For fuch employment of our Thoughts being therefore a fort of preter- natural force upon them , the fpring ...
... DISTRACTING Thoughts in prayer are very much owing to that natural averfion we obferved in us to things fpiritual and divine : For fuch employment of our Thoughts being therefore a fort of preter- natural force upon them , the fpring ...
Page 67
... distracted wan- dering man , instead of his Maker , worships all the while , perhaps , the idol of his own and the Devil's making . But we have dif- coursed on the extravagancies of this faculty before . IV . DISTRACTIONS in prayer ...
... distracted wan- dering man , instead of his Maker , worships all the while , perhaps , the idol of his own and the Devil's making . But we have dif- coursed on the extravagancies of this faculty before . IV . DISTRACTIONS in prayer ...
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... distracted man- ner : The principal test is , whereby the Ca- tholic Chriftians were wont to diftinguish an enthusiastic montanift from a divinely infpi- red prophet , as may be feen in Eufebius , * where we find Miltiades , an ...
... distracted man- ner : The principal test is , whereby the Ca- tholic Chriftians were wont to diftinguish an enthusiastic montanift from a divinely infpi- red prophet , as may be feen in Eufebius , * where we find Miltiades , an ...
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Page 101 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few.
Page 123 - Finally, brethren, whatfoever things are ' true, whatfoever things are honeft, whatfoever things ' are juft, whatfoever things are pure, whatfoever things ' are lovely, whatfoever things are of good report : If ' there be any virtue, and if there be any praife, think
Page 96 - If there be a willing mind, it is accepted according to what a man has, and not according to what he has not.
Page 136 - And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness: for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.
Page 124 - ... when we sit in the house, and when we walk by the way ; when we lie down, and when we rise up, — and when we are about our daily occupation.
Page 101 - But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am* a great King, saith the Lord of Hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.
Page 53 - much " much goods laid up for many years ; take " thine eafe, eat, drink, and be merry.
Page 139 - ALMIGHTY God, unto whom all hearts be open, /~\. all defires known, and from whom no fecrets are hid ; Cleanfe the thoughts of our hearts by the infpiration of thy Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love Thee, and worthily magnify thy holy Name ; through Chrift our Lord.
Page 68 - If any man love the world, the love of God is not in him.
Page 31 - For the wifdom of this world is foolifhnefs with God. For it is written : He taketh the wife in their own craftinefs. And again: The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wife, that they are vain.