Views of Christian Truth, Piety, and Morality: Selected from the Writings of Dr. Priestley : with a Memoir of His LifeJ. Munroe and Company, 1834 - 207 páginas |
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... devotion , as even superior both to self- love and benevolence , is always every where recommended to us and the sentiments of devotion have been shown greatly to aid , and , in fact , to be the same with those of benevolence ; and they ...
... devotion , as even superior both to self- love and benevolence , is always every where recommended to us and the sentiments of devotion have been shown greatly to aid , and , in fact , to be the same with those of benevolence ; and they ...
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... devotion . This refined kind of self - love is nowhere to be found in the Scriptures . - Even the pleasures of a good conscience , though they be of a more general nature , and there be less refinement in them than in some other ...
... devotion . This refined kind of self - love is nowhere to be found in the Scriptures . - Even the pleasures of a good conscience , though they be of a more general nature , and there be less refinement in them than in some other ...
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... devotion are able to do upon extraordinary occasions , the habitual , moderate exercise of piety , will be able to do in the ordinary course and the common troubles of our lives ; so that it may not only be compared to a strong cordial ...
... devotion are able to do upon extraordinary occasions , the habitual , moderate exercise of piety , will be able to do in the ordinary course and the common troubles of our lives ; so that it may not only be compared to a strong cordial ...
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... devotion cannot always be kept up . That is inconsistent with the condition of our nature , and far from being neces- sary in our present state but that cheerful serenity and composure in which moderate acts of devotion leave the mind ...
... devotion cannot always be kept up . That is inconsistent with the condition of our nature , and far from being neces- sary in our present state but that cheerful serenity and composure in which moderate acts of devotion leave the mind ...
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... any time of life , be up and doing , working out their salvation with fear and trembling , that , if possible , they may flee from the wrath to come . HABITUAL DEVOTION . GOD , my Christian brethren , is 40 THE DANGER OF BAD HABITS ,
... any time of life , be up and doing , working out their salvation with fear and trembling , that , if possible , they may flee from the wrath to come . HABITUAL DEVOTION . GOD , my Christian brethren , is 40 THE DANGER OF BAD HABITS ,
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Página 22 - Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink ? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in ? or naked, and clothed thee ? or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
Página 35 - When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
Página 23 - And call no man your father upon the earth : for one is your Father which is in heaven.
Página 165 - Socrates, which nobody presumes to doubt, is not so well attested as that of Jesus Christ. Such a supposition, in fact, only shifts the difficulty without obviating it ; it is more inconceivable that a number of persons should agree to write such a history, than that one should furnish the subject of it.
Página 23 - Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Página 35 - Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in, and dwell there : and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
Página 2 - For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Página 165 - What sweetness, what purity in his manners ! what an affecting gracefulness in his delivery ! what sublimity in his maxims ! what profound wisdom in his discourses ! what presence of mind, what subtlety, what truth in his replies!
Página 174 - Being, in whose hand our breath is, and whose are all our ways.
Página 165 - What presence of mind, what subtlety, what truth in his replies! How great the command over his passions! Where is the man, where the philosopher, who could so live, and so die, without weakness, and without ostentation...