Letters to a young clergyman from the Rev. Mr. Job Orton, 3d edEddowes, 1805 |
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... last illness , he read Mr. HERBERT'S Country Parfon , together with ISAAC WAL- TON'S Lives of GEORGE HERBERT , & C . " with a view , no doubt , to trim his lamp and prepare for his Lord , by comparing his conduct with the examples of ...
... last illness , he read Mr. HERBERT'S Country Parfon , together with ISAAC WAL- TON'S Lives of GEORGE HERBERT , & C . " with a view , no doubt , to trim his lamp and prepare for his Lord , by comparing his conduct with the examples of ...
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... last ; impaling BAUGH of Aldon Court , in the county of Salop , viz . gules , a fefs , vaire , between three mullets argent ; with this epitaph infcribed ; Venerabilis Vir , Ben . Jenks . In hac ecclefiâ per 56 annos Docendo , vivendo ...
... last ; impaling BAUGH of Aldon Court , in the county of Salop , viz . gules , a fefs , vaire , between three mullets argent ; with this epitaph infcribed ; Venerabilis Vir , Ben . Jenks . In hac ecclefiâ per 56 annos Docendo , vivendo ...
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... last Sunday's fer- mon , ( as their parents fhould be defired to teach it them :) and of the elder children , whether they remember any thing of the fermon . When they expect fuch an enquiry , they will be more attentive , and then you ...
... last Sunday's fer- mon , ( as their parents fhould be defired to teach it them :) and of the elder children , whether they remember any thing of the fermon . When they expect fuch an enquiry , they will be more attentive , and then you ...
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... last letter about your method of preaching , induces me to transcribe the following lines , and fend them to you . He bore his great commiffion in his look , But fweetly tempered awe ; and foften'd all he spoke . He preach'd the joys of ...
... last letter about your method of preaching , induces me to transcribe the following lines , and fend them to you . He bore his great commiffion in his look , But fweetly tempered awe ; and foften'd all he spoke . He preach'd the joys of ...
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... last fermon , and to remind the people of it . This may be done without any breach of modefty , and may lead them to open their hearts freely on the fubject ; and thus we may judge how far they un- derftood and relifhed what was faid ...
... last fermon , and to remind the people of it . This may be done without any breach of modefty , and may lead them to open their hearts freely on the fubject ; and thus we may judge how far they un- derftood and relifhed what was faid ...
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Página v - I wished to be in, in the last minutes of my life. For that pattern which I saw in him, and for that conversation which I had with him, I know how much I have to answer to God : and though my reflecting on that which I knew in him gives me just cause of being deeply humbled in myself, and before God; yet I feel no more sensible pleasure in any thing, than in going over in my thoughts all that I saw and observed in him.
Página 145 - I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia ; for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
Página 307 - Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. For one believeth that he may eat all things ; another, who is weak, eateth herbs. Let not him that eateth, despise him that eateth not ; and let not him which eateth not, judge him that eateth; for God hath received him.
Página 80 - And forced himself to drive: but loved to draw. For fear but freezes minds; but love, like heat, Exhales the soul sublime, to seek her native seat. To threats the stubborn sinner oft is hard, Wrapp'd in his crimes, against the storm prepared; But, when the milder beams of mercy play, He melts, and throws his cumbrous cloak away...
Página 46 - ... cut me to the heart, told me, that he had the prospect of death before him, and that he dreaded to meet his Saviour.
Página 6 - Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky...
Página 308 - God hath over all : and by the natural law, whereunto he hath made all subject, the lawful power of making laws, to command whole politic societies of men, belongeth so properly unto the same entire societies, that for any prince or potentate of what kind soever upon earth to exercise the same of himself, and not either by express commission immediately and personally received from God, or else by authority derived at the first from their consent upon whose persons they . impose laws, it is no better...
Página 316 - BAXTER was a man famous for weakness of body and strength of mind ; for having the strongest sense of religion himself, and exciting a sense of it in the thoughtless and profligate ; for preaching more sermons, engaging in more controversies, and writing more books, than any other Nonconformist of his age.
Página 314 - His practical writings were never mended, and his controversial ones seldom confuted." With a view to his casuistical writings, the honourable Robert Boyle, Esq declared, " He was the fittest man of the age for a casuist, because he feared no man's displeasure, nor hoped for any man's preferment." Bishop Wilkins observed of him, " that he had cultivated every subject he had handled ; that if he had lived in the primitive times, he would have been one of the fathers of the church...