The Life and Character of Thomas Letchworthauthor, 1786 - 108 páginas |
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... evil , may wifely take occafion to con- fider , likewise , the state of their own minds , on a comparison with former times , and the days of their first love , which may often lead us to the important and profitable enquiry , " Is our ...
... evil , may wifely take occafion to con- fider , likewise , the state of their own minds , on a comparison with former times , and the days of their first love , which may often lead us to the important and profitable enquiry , " Is our ...
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... evil of human profperity and adversity , he had only one motive to any degree of folici- tude , about the poffetlion of more than his bare neceffities required ; and that was , the eafy ac- commodation of his little family , and ...
... evil of human profperity and adversity , he had only one motive to any degree of folici- tude , about the poffetlion of more than his bare neceffities required ; and that was , the eafy ac- commodation of his little family , and ...
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... kinds of " mental error : fo we may not improperly con- " clude that variety of opinion , so far as moral ❝evil is unconcerned , is not inconfiftent with " the " the divine government of the world . Hence we 34 THE LIFE OF.
... kinds of " mental error : fo we may not improperly con- " clude that variety of opinion , so far as moral ❝evil is unconcerned , is not inconfiftent with " the " the divine government of the world . Hence we 34 THE LIFE OF.
Página 63
... evil , or to acquire a " present or remote fuperior good ! Fear feems " to be a paffion that tinges even our pureft de- " votion at the altar , and proftrates us at the " shrine of virtue . The selfish paffion is blended " with all the ...
... evil , or to acquire a " present or remote fuperior good ! Fear feems " to be a paffion that tinges even our pureft de- " votion at the altar , and proftrates us at the " shrine of virtue . The selfish paffion is blended " with all the ...
Página 66
... evil of de- " vifing , and setting up , peculiarities of reli- gious belief and conduct in fociety , which " are non - effential to chriftianity ; and which " too many , I fear , get rid of the trouble of , " the shortest way , by ...
... evil of de- " vifing , and setting up , peculiarities of reli- gious belief and conduct in fociety , which " are non - effential to chriftianity ; and which " too many , I fear , get rid of the trouble of , " the shortest way , by ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 12 - Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
Página 14 - The archers have forely grieved him, " and fhot at him, and hated him : but his bow abode " in ftrength, and the arms of his hands were made " ftrong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob...
Página 14 - Lord, and do good, fa fhalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou fhalt be fed.
Página 30 - God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the mighty, and base things of the world, and things that are despised hath God chosen, yea, and things that are not, to bring to naught things that are, that no flesh should glory in his presence.
Página 97 - Yea, though I walk through the valley of the fhadow of death, I will fear no evil : for Thou art with me ; Thy rod and Thy ftaff comfort me.
Página 66 - The kingdom of Christ, not being a kingdom of this world, is not limited by the restrictions which fetter other societies, political or religious.
Página 103 - Secure to be as bleft as thou canft bear: Safe in the Hand of one difpofing Power, Or in the natal, or the mortal Hour.
Página 30 - But GoD hath chofen the foolifh things of this world to confound the wife...
Página 13 - God had called him, even a Workman that needed not to be afhamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth.
Página 56 - In the moral world, the undertending, " taken for the faculties, is to the mind what " the eye is to the body; and the...