Serious Reflections on Time and EternityWilliam Collins, 1828 - 366 páginas |
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... happiness , but riches and honours make us to be other men than before we seemed to be . How weak a thing is man ! that cannot carry his own wishes without falling under them ; that cannot prosper in his designs without being changed ...
... happiness , but riches and honours make us to be other men than before we seemed to be . How weak a thing is man ! that cannot carry his own wishes without falling under them ; that cannot prosper in his designs without being changed ...
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... happiness ; to his final judgment I am hastening ; his favour alone can give me support and joy in a dying hour ; to his mercy I must trust , when I leave this world , and can have no advantage more by any thing in it , ) that he may ...
... happiness ; to his final judgment I am hastening ; his favour alone can give me support and joy in a dying hour ; to his mercy I must trust , when I leave this world , and can have no advantage more by any thing in it , ) that he may ...
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... happiness , and sensible nothing present can afford it , and knowing by experience that nothing past could have done it , ) are eagerly desirous of felicity ; and , because we know not but what is to come may procure it , we hope it ...
... happiness , and sensible nothing present can afford it , and knowing by experience that nothing past could have done it , ) are eagerly desirous of felicity ; and , because we know not but what is to come may procure it , we hope it ...
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... happiness in this world , which nothing temporal can afford . This is not the state , or season , wherein , by any promise of God , I am encouraged to hope for it . And if fifty or threescore years to come be thought so great a matter ...
... happiness in this world , which nothing temporal can afford . This is not the state , or season , wherein , by any promise of God , I am encouraged to hope for it . And if fifty or threescore years to come be thought so great a matter ...
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... happiness of my soul in another world . And shall I lavish my time , and lose my pains about things unnecessary ? What will all other business signify in the end , if this be neglected ? Is there any interest more weighty that calleth ...
... happiness of my soul in another world . And shall I lavish my time , and lose my pains about things unnecessary ? What will all other business signify in the end , if this be neglected ? Is there any interest more weighty that calleth ...
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Página 336 - Let your conversation be without covetousness ; and be content with such things as ye have : for he hath said. I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Página 359 - And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
Página 352 - For which cause we faint not ; but though our outward, man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
Página 346 - But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour ; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
Página 326 - AND it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, " My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
Página 247 - Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
Página 212 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Página 360 - I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands.
Página 358 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, So that I come again to my father's house in peace ; then shall the Lord be my God : and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house : and of all that thou shalt give me, I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Página 346 - For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.