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... heaven , must needs be more transporting and ra- vishing than the richest fancy of a finner ; and that secu- rity , both in respect of this and a future life , which a good man enjoys in the protection of God , and the assu- rance of ...
... heaven , must needs be more transporting and ra- vishing than the richest fancy of a finner ; and that secu- rity , both in respect of this and a future life , which a good man enjoys in the protection of God , and the assu- rance of ...
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... heaven , so it tends thi- ther also , and thither raises its votaries . This is it which fublimates and spiritualizes humanity , refines it from all the dregs of mortality , and so wings our earthly lumpish nature , that we can foar ...
... heaven , so it tends thi- ther also , and thither raises its votaries . This is it which fublimates and spiritualizes humanity , refines it from all the dregs of mortality , and so wings our earthly lumpish nature , that we can foar ...
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... heaven ; this re- commends it to the spectators as the true and greatest object of human choice ; since it is chofen by those who know the utmost pretence of all its competitors . Nor is devotion only more excellent in them , in regard ...
... heaven ; this re- commends it to the spectators as the true and greatest object of human choice ; since it is chofen by those who know the utmost pretence of all its competitors . Nor is devotion only more excellent in them , in regard ...
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... heaven and earth with his present power , and never - absent nature . This fure is enough to excite us to be frequent and fervent in our private devotions , that our whole lives may be sancti- fied , and made acceptable to that most ...
... heaven and earth with his present power , and never - absent nature . This fure is enough to excite us to be frequent and fervent in our private devotions , that our whole lives may be sancti- fied , and made acceptable to that most ...
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... heaven itself , but as infancy is short of manhood , and letters of words ? The same state of life it is , but not the fame age : It is heaven in a looking - glass , dark but yet true , reprefenting the beauties of the soul , the grace ...
... heaven itself , but as infancy is short of manhood , and letters of words ? The same state of life it is , but not the fame age : It is heaven in a looking - glass , dark but yet true , reprefenting the beauties of the soul , the grace ...
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Page 41 - ... us : and if we walk with God in all his ways, as he walks with us in all ours, we shall find perpetual reasons to enable us to keep that rule of God, " Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice.
Page 252 - Finally, brethren, whatfoever things are ' true, whatfoever things are honeft, whatfoever things ' are juft, whatfoever things are pure, whatfoever things ' are lovely, whatfoever things are of good report : If ' there be any virtue, and if there be any praife, think
Page 272 - Jefus the author and finifher of our faith; who for the joy that was fet before him, endured the crofs, defpifing the fhame ; and is fet down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Page 272 - Being encompaffed with a cloud of witnefles, let us lay afide every weight, and the fin which doth fo eafily befet us : and let us run with patience the race that is fet before us...
Page 40 - ... that opens all his wants to him, that weeps before him for his sins, that asks remedy and support for his weakness, that fears him as a Judge, reverences him as a Lord, obeys him as a Father, and loves him as a Patron.
Page 242 - The cup of bleffing which we blefs, is it not the communion of the blood of Chrift? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Chrift ? For we being many are one bread, and one body, for we are all partakers of that one bread.
Page 38 - Him in the glass of the creation. In the face of the sun you may see God's beauty ; in the fire you may feel His heat warming ; in the water, His gentleness to refresh you...
Page 55 - The apostle calls it the band of perfection; it is the old, and it is the new, and it is the great commandment, and it is all the commandments; for it is the fulfilling of the law.