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... mind against those melancholy alterations which may daily , and some time or other will certainly befal himself , and his enjoyments ? On what foundation can the peace and liberty of his mind be established , or can he be happy , who is ...
... mind against those melancholy alterations which may daily , and some time or other will certainly befal himself , and his enjoyments ? On what foundation can the peace and liberty of his mind be established , or can he be happy , who is ...
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... mind , stamps that with such an admira- tion and reverence of God , fuch a love and compla- cency in him , that every act is at least habitually de- figned to obey and glorify him . Piety , in the more limited sense , is taken for our ...
... mind , stamps that with such an admira- tion and reverence of God , fuch a love and compla- cency in him , that every act is at least habitually de- figned to obey and glorify him . Piety , in the more limited sense , is taken for our ...
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... mind to such a heedless security , that it takes no care to avoid them : and as in the body , the diseases of repletion are far more numerous than those of emptiness , so the mind is oftner vitiated by affluence and prosperity , than by ...
... mind to such a heedless security , that it takes no care to avoid them : and as in the body , the diseases of repletion are far more numerous than those of emptiness , so the mind is oftner vitiated by affluence and prosperity , than by ...
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... mind . His religion is the perfected scheme of morality , and makes him a philosopher with- out the help of the schools . It teaches him the art of fubduing his appetites , calming his paffion , and in a word , making him Lord of ...
... mind . His religion is the perfected scheme of morality , and makes him a philosopher with- out the help of the schools . It teaches him the art of fubduing his appetites , calming his paffion , and in a word , making him Lord of ...
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... mind to the performance of it , and that is the confideration that God is present in all places , that he sees every action , hears all discourses , and un- derstands every thought : He is wholly in every place , but included in none ...
... mind to the performance of it , and that is the confideration that God is present in all places , that he sees every action , hears all discourses , and un- derstands every thought : He is wholly in every place , but included in none ...
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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.