The Works of William Paley, D.D.: And An Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, by the Rev. Edmund Paley, Volume 4Longman and Company, 1838 - Clergy |
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... attention , ) least of all does he conceive the hope of reaching heaven by that sort of compro- mise , which would make easy , nay perhaps pleasant duties , an excuse for duties which are irksome and severe . To recur , for the last ...
... attention , ) least of all does he conceive the hope of reaching heaven by that sort of compro- mise , which would make easy , nay perhaps pleasant duties , an excuse for duties which are irksome and severe . To recur , for the last ...
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... attention to the precise period of committing the offence : but here the two cases differ exceedingly - that the one person suffers under the visitation of an inevitable cala- mity ; the other is the author of his own distemper : and ...
... attention to the precise period of committing the offence : but here the two cases differ exceedingly - that the one person suffers under the visitation of an inevitable cala- mity ; the other is the author of his own distemper : and ...
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... attention , -I mean as he means , such of us as are sincere Christians , -upon what we are to be here- after . This , as to particulars , is veiled from us , as we have observed , by our present nature ; but as to generals , as to what ...
... attention , -I mean as he means , such of us as are sincere Christians , -upon what we are to be here- after . This , as to particulars , is veiled from us , as we have observed , by our present nature ; but as to generals , as to what ...
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... attention to this point . Imagine a wife , a daughter , a sister of your own , to be the person seduced and corrupted ! You cannot conceive a heavier misfortune , -an affliction or disgrace that can equal SERM . XLIV . ] 103 MORAL , AND ...
... attention to this point . Imagine a wife , a daughter , a sister of your own , to be the person seduced and corrupted ! You cannot conceive a heavier misfortune , -an affliction or disgrace that can equal SERM . XLIV . ] 103 MORAL , AND ...
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... attention has got hold of any criminal indulgence , it is not easily set loose . Resolutions against these serve only to rivet the thoughts the faster upon our minds , and there are few who can hold out against the continual teazing of ...
... attention has got hold of any criminal indulgence , it is not easily set loose . Resolutions against these serve only to rivet the thoughts the faster upon our minds , and there are few who can hold out against the continual teazing of ...
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Page 72 - But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
Page 493 - And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself. And the people of the Prince, that shall come, shall destroy the city and the sanctuary : and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Page 493 - Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured...
Page 306 - Cephas, then of the twelve; after that he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
Page 70 - But now I have' written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Page 471 - Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 491 - ... and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby; and came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
Page 509 - Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things, which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eye-witnesses and ministers of the word...
Page 399 - As I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel. Behold, all souls are Mine: as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is Mine : the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Page 479 - And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging : to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.