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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Página 45
... sickness renders utterly tasteless . Learn how vain and weak a thing Human Na- ture is , which is pulled down to the gates of death , and clothed with rottenness and corrup- tion , ON RELIGION . 45 with very much Thankfulness to him ...
... sickness renders utterly tasteless . Learn how vain and weak a thing Human Na- ture is , which is pulled down to the gates of death , and clothed with rottenness and corrup- tion , ON RELIGION . 45 with very much Thankfulness to him ...
Página 46
... sickness , no pain , no weakness , but a state of unchangeable and everlasting happiness . And if you thus improve Affliction , you are gainers by it ; and most certain it is , that there is no more probable way , under heaven , to be ...
... sickness , no pain , no weakness , but a state of unchangeable and everlasting happiness . And if you thus improve Affliction , you are gainers by it ; and most certain it is , that there is no more probable way , under heaven , to be ...
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... SICKNESS * . SON- ALTHOUGH , by reason of the contagiousness of your disease , and the many dependents I have upon me , I thought it not convenient to come unto you during your sickness , yet I have not been wanting in my earnest ...
... SICKNESS * . SON- ALTHOUGH , by reason of the contagiousness of your disease , and the many dependents I have upon me , I thought it not convenient to come unto you during your sickness , yet I have not been wanting in my earnest ...
Página 89
... to do in these following lines . You shall not need to fear that I intend to upbraid you with the errors of your youth , or to expostulate with you touching them ; for I do assure you I do from my heart forgive you ON SICKNESS . 89.
... to do in these following lines . You shall not need to fear that I intend to upbraid you with the errors of your youth , or to expostulate with you touching them ; for I do assure you I do from my heart forgive you ON SICKNESS . 89.
Página 90
... , as long as you live , remember your late sickness in all its cir- cumstances , and these plain and profitable in- ferences and advices that arise from it . 1 Secondly . I would have you remember , as 90 LETTER IV .
... , as long as you live , remember your late sickness in all its cir- cumstances , and these plain and profitable in- ferences and advices that arise from it . 1 Secondly . I would have you remember , as 90 LETTER IV .
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Términos y frases comunes
advantage advice affliction Almighty amiss Anabaptists Antinomians avoid better Bishop Burnet blessing body careful charity 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 FLEET STREET 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-day lusts means ment mercy mind 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
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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 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 - 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 28 - Let him that will, ascend the tottering seat Of courtly grandeur, and become as great As are his mounting wishes : as for me, Let sweet repose and rest my portion be ; Give me some mean, obscure recess, a sphere Out of the road of business, or the fear Of falling lower ; where I sweetly may Myself and dear retirement still enjoy : Let not my life or name be known unto The grandees of the time...
Página 23 - Not to be solicitous what men will say or think, so long as I keep myself exactly according to the rule of justice. 13. If in criminals it be a measuring cast, to incline to mercy and acquittal.
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 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 70 - I have found by a strict and diligent observation that a due observance of the duty of this day hath ever had joined to it a blessing upon the rest of my time, and the week that hath been so begun hath been blessed and prosperous to me...