Fifteen Sermons Preached at the Rolls ChapelBotham, 1726 - 312 páginas |
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... speak of the Heart and inward Principles , how far soe . ver the Standard is from being exact or pre- cisely fixt . There is therefore Ground for an Attempt of fhewing Men to themselves , of fhewing them what Course of Life and ...
... speak of the Heart and inward Principles , how far soe . ver the Standard is from being exact or pre- cisely fixt . There is therefore Ground for an Attempt of fhewing Men to themselves , of fhewing them what Course of Life and ...
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... speak but from Forethought and cool Defign . Here the Crime is Injuftice and Perjury ; and ftrictly speaking no more be- longs to the present Subject , than Perjury and Injustice in any other way . But there is fuch a thing as a ...
... speak but from Forethought and cool Defign . Here the Crime is Injuftice and Perjury ; and ftrictly speaking no more be- longs to the present Subject , than Perjury and Injustice in any other way . But there is fuch a thing as a ...
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... Speak- ing well or evil of others . The wife Man obferves , that there is a Time to speak , and a Time to keep filence . F 2 One Ser . IV.One meets with People in the World , * Government of the Tongue . 67.
... Speak- ing well or evil of others . The wife Man obferves , that there is a Time to speak , and a Time to keep filence . F 2 One Ser . IV.One meets with People in the World , * Government of the Tongue . 67.
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... speak from their having any thing to say , as every Sentence fhews , but only from their Inclination to be talking . Their Conversation is meerly an Exercise of the Tongue ; no other humane Faculty has any Share in it . It is ftrange ...
... speak from their having any thing to say , as every Sentence fhews , but only from their Inclination to be talking . Their Conversation is meerly an Exercise of the Tongue ; no other humane Faculty has any Share in it . It is ftrange ...
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... speaking , and divulging Secrets . If it were needful to fay any thing further to perfuade Men to learn this Leffon of Si- lence , one might put them in Mind how infignificant they render themselves by this exceffive Talkativeness ...
... speaking , and divulging Secrets . If it were needful to fay any thing further to perfuade Men to learn this Leffon of Si- lence , one might put them in Mind how infignificant they render themselves by this exceffive Talkativeness ...
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Página 257 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Página 170 - But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up : and it grew up together with him, and with his children ; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
Página 259 - ... of whom, and through whom, and to whom are all things...
Página 111 - Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, And bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, With calves of a year old ? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, Or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
Página 283 - ... then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun...
Página 288 - He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
Página 134 - The indignation raised by cruelty and injustice, and the desire of having it punished, which persons unconcerned would feel, is by no means malice. No, it is resentment against vice and wickedness : it is one of the common bonds, by which society is held together; a fellow-feeling, which each individual has in behalf of the whole species, as well as of himself.
Página 286 - I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Página 39 - Your obligation to obey this law, is its being the law of your nature. That your conscience approves of and attests to such a course of action, is itself alone an obligation. Conscience does not only offer itself to show us the way we should walk in, but it likewise carries its own authority with it, that it is our natural guide ; the guide assigned us by the Author of our nature...