The Christian Monitor, Volume 3Munroe and Francis, 1807 - Christian life |
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... senses , and regale my appetites , spending my time and fortune in pleasures , in diversions , and worldly enjoyments , a stranger to watchings , fastings , prayers , and mortification , how can it be said , that I am working out my ...
... senses , and regale my appetites , spending my time and fortune in pleasures , in diversions , and worldly enjoyments , a stranger to watchings , fastings , prayers , and mortification , how can it be said , that I am working out my ...
Page 30
... sense and reason of his own mind , against all the doctrines and precepts of religion and contrary to all the instructions , calls , and warn- ings , both of God and man . CHAP . IV . ** We can please God in no state , nor employment of ...
... sense and reason of his own mind , against all the doctrines and precepts of religion and contrary to all the instructions , calls , and warn- ings , both of God and man . CHAP . IV . ** We can please God in no state , nor employment of ...
Page 58
... sense and taste of religion , by a regular kind of sensuality and indulgence , than by gross drunkenness . More men live regardless of the great duties of piety , through too great a concern for worldly goods , than through direct ...
... sense and taste of religion , by a regular kind of sensuality and indulgence , than by gross drunkenness . More men live regardless of the great duties of piety , through too great a concern for worldly goods , than through direct ...
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... senses were witnesses of the life , and miracles , and doctrines of our blessed lord ; yet is it as truly the case of all christians at this time . For the reasons of re- • ligion , the calls to piety are so written and en- graved upon ...
... senses were witnesses of the life , and miracles , and doctrines of our blessed lord ; yet is it as truly the case of all christians at this time . For the reasons of re- • ligion , the calls to piety are so written and en- graved upon ...
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... senses , by every thing , which we meet with in life . Let us but intend to see and hear ; and then the whole world becomes a book of wisdom and instruction to us ; all , which is regular in the order of nature ; all , which is ...
... senses , by every thing , which we meet with in life . Let us but intend to see and hear ; and then the whole world becomes a book of wisdom and instruction to us ; all , which is regular in the order of nature ; all , which is ...
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