Sermons by J. B. Massillon, Bishop of Clermont: To which is Prefixed, the Life of the Author, Volume 1M. Carey and son, 1818 - Sermons, English |
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... riches which ought to secure their happines : How can we comprehend , that so much toil and agitation has nothing in view , but a fortune whose duration scarcely equals that of the labours which have gained it ; and that a life so rapid ...
... riches which ought to secure their happines : How can we comprehend , that so much toil and agitation has nothing in view , but a fortune whose duration scarcely equals that of the labours which have gained it ; and that a life so rapid ...
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... riches . Yes , my brethren , our cares for this world are always animated ; obstacles , fatigues , disapointments , nothing can repulse us : Our cares for this world are always pru- dent ; dangers , snares , perplexities , competitions ...
... riches . Yes , my brethren , our cares for this world are always animated ; obstacles , fatigues , disapointments , nothing can repulse us : Our cares for this world are always pru- dent ; dangers , snares , perplexities , competitions ...
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... riches ; we form projects for heaven alone ; we labour for an immortal crown . What is there then upon the earth , more glorious or more worthy of man , than the cares of eternity ? Prosperities are honourable anxieties ; splendid ...
... riches ; we form projects for heaven alone ; we labour for an immortal crown . What is there then upon the earth , more glorious or more worthy of man , than the cares of eternity ? Prosperities are honourable anxieties ; splendid ...
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... riches ; the distribution of trib- utes and subsidies , and the administration of all the pub- lic revenues , were entrusted to his fidelity ; now , this abyss of cares and embarrassments did not deprive him of leis- ure to seek , in ...
... riches ; the distribution of trib- utes and subsidies , and the administration of all the pub- lic revenues , were entrusted to his fidelity ; now , this abyss of cares and embarrassments did not deprive him of leis- ure to seek , in ...
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... riches which we hold only from Him ? The world authorises continual pleasures , gaming , theatres ; and treats with ridicule whoever ventures even to doubt their innocence : Have you found this decision in the sorrowful and hum- bling ...
... riches which we hold only from Him ? The world authorises continual pleasures , gaming , theatres ; and treats with ridicule whoever ventures even to doubt their innocence : Have you found this decision in the sorrowful and hum- bling ...
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Page iv - An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and...
Page 84 - I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man; but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Page iv - An act supplementary to an act, entitled, * An act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Chans, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned,* and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other Prints.
Page 447 - And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, and stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Page 130 - So he turned and went away in a rage. And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
Page 84 - Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Page iv - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Page 489 - Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said ; It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you ; but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
Page 382 - Reproach hath broken my heart ; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none ; And for comforters, but I found none.
Page 308 - Awake, awake ; put on thy strength, O Zion ; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city : for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. Shake thyself from the dust ; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem : loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.