The Counsels of a Father, in Four Letters of Sir Matthew Hale to His Children. To which is Added, The Practical Life of a True Christian ... With a New Memoir of the Author's Life ... Second EditionTaylor and Hessey, 1817 - 207 páginas |
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... nature to place any confidence in our own strength . Prayers are a much better preservative than Vows . These , however , are frequently made by persons in Mr. Hale's situation , who have not the grace to keep them with the same ...
... nature to place any confidence in our own strength . Prayers are a much better preservative than Vows . These , however , are frequently made by persons in Mr. Hale's situation , who have not the grace to keep them with the same ...
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... nature , and by analogy obtained an insight beyond that of the senses . Of the sublime mysteries of our religion he loved to reason , not rashly or with presumption , but according to that in- tellectual scale by which God has permitted ...
... nature , and by analogy obtained an insight beyond that of the senses . Of the sublime mysteries of our religion he loved to reason , not rashly or with presumption , but according to that in- tellectual scale by which God has permitted ...
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... nature prompt me to pity , yet to consider that there is also a pity due to the coun- try , IX . That I be not too rigid in matters purely conscientious , where all the harm is diversity of judgment . X. That I be not biassed with ...
... nature prompt me to pity , yet to consider that there is also a pity due to the coun- try , IX . That I be not too rigid in matters purely conscientious , where all the harm is diversity of judgment . X. That I be not biassed with ...
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... nature , so no man shall be either truly wise or truly happy without it , and the love of it ; no , not in this life , much less in that which is to come . First . Therefore every morning and every evening , upon your knees , humbly ...
... nature , so no man shall be either truly wise or truly happy without it , and the love of it ; no , not in this life , much less in that which is to come . First . Therefore every morning and every evening , upon your knees , humbly ...
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... neither , yet will fill your memory with such discourses , that will be troublesome to you in after - time ; and the returns of the remembrance of the passages , which you long since heard of this nature , will 56 LETTER II .
... neither , yet will fill your memory with such discourses , that will be troublesome to you in after - time ; and the returns of the remembrance of the passages , which you long since heard of this nature , will 56 LETTER II .
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advantage advice affliction Almighty amiss Anabaptists Antinomians avoid better Bishop Burnet blessing body careful children of men Christ Christian command concerning conscience corrupt counsel danger death deliverance delivered Deut disease doth duty elocution embased eminent employ employment esteemed eternal everlasting evil faithful father give given glory grace hath heart heaven honour humble inconsiderate intemperance JANE TAYLOR justice kind knew knowledge labour Lincoln's Inn live looked Lord Lord's Prayer Lord's-day lusts means ment mercy mind miscarriages morocco nature necessity neglect ness never obedience observation ONGAR passion person practice prayers prudence putrefaction quired reason religion remember reputation reverence Richard Baxter Sabbath sermon serve sickness sidered sins Sir Matthew Hale soul speak speech talents thankfulness thee things thou hast thought thy creatures thy Majesty thy name thy providence tion truth tural unto wherein wisdom wise words yourselves
Pasajes populares
Página 168 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Página 83 - ... then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord ; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father : for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Página 83 - If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, From doing thy pleasure on my holy day ; And call the sabbath a delight, The holy of the Lord, honourable; And shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, Nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord...
Página 24 - Not to be solicitous what men will say or think, so long as I keep myself exactly according to the rules of justice. " XIII. If in criminals it be a measuring cast, to incline to mercy and acquittal.
Página 206 - THE STUDENT'S JOURNAL. Arranged, Printed, and Ruled for receiving an Account of every Day's Employment for the space of One Year. With an Index and Appendix.
Página 50 - If any person, that you do not very well know to be a person of truth, sobriety and weight, relate strange stories, be not too ready or easy to believe them, nor report them after him. And yet, unless he be one of your familiar acquaintance, be not too forward to contradict him ; or, if the necessity of the occasion...
Página 205 - We are happy to announce another publication of this judicious and useful writer, particularly as we think that the present •will be found among the most valuable of Mrs Taylor's productions The...
Página 107 - Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
Página 206 - LETTERS from an ELDER to a YOUNGER BROTHER, on the CONDUCT to be pursued in LIFE. By W. HUSSEY. Third Edition, in 2 vols.
Página 206 - ... and Ruled for receiving an account of every day's employment for the space of one year. With an Index and Appendix. Cheaper Edition. Post 8vo, strongly half-bound, Bs. 6d. The Student's Journal. Formed on the plan of the "Private Diary.