Letters on Clerical Manners and Habits: Addressed to a Student in the Theological Seminary, at Princeton, N.J. |
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... present pursuit . But there is one qualification for the sacred office , in which , allow me with paternal free- dom to say , you have always appeared to me to be defective . Whatever pleasure your friends may have felt in contemplating ...
... present pursuit . But there is one qualification for the sacred office , in which , allow me with paternal free- dom to say , you have always appeared to me to be defective . Whatever pleasure your friends may have felt in contemplating ...
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... present at places in which cards or dancing are made a part of the professed and prominent entertainment , I take for granted . But I will go further . When you are invited even to what are called family parties , and you find either ...
... present at places in which cards or dancing are made a part of the professed and prominent entertainment , I take for granted . But I will go further . When you are invited even to what are called family parties , and you find either ...
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... present Letter , to mention some of these personal habits . And let me en- treat you not to consider me as unnecessarily minute or fastidious , in my enumeration . Some of the items adverted to , may excite a smile , and others a less ...
... present Letter , to mention some of these personal habits . And let me en- treat you not to consider me as unnecessarily minute or fastidious , in my enumeration . Some of the items adverted to , may excite a smile , and others a less ...
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... present life , I should consider myself as gaining a most de- sirable object . He who drinks nothing but water , has but little temptation to drink at all more frequently than he ought . Yet it is very possible to take too frequently ...
... present life , I should consider myself as gaining a most de- sirable object . He who drinks nothing but water , has but little temptation to drink at all more frequently than he ought . Yet it is very possible to take too frequently ...
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... LUXURIOUS EATING . I shall probably say something hereafter on the mischiefs of intemperate eating , in reference to the bodily health . My design , at present , is merely to speak of those improprieties of manner which 73.
... LUXURIOUS EATING . I shall probably say something hereafter on the mischiefs of intemperate eating , in reference to the bodily health . My design , at present , is merely to speak of those improprieties of manner which 73.
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Page 43 - But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes ; and the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth...
Page 416 - Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; 2. The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
Page 450 - I may say, that the production of this work and most of my other writings, is owing; viz. that the difference between rising at five and at seven o'clock in the morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man's life...
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Page 90 - Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
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Page 254 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.