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... most obliged husband , and most obedient , humble servant , RICHARD STEELE . COCEANS C ***** THE CONTENTS . VOLUME III . RELIGION , PRAYER DEDICATION .
... most obliged husband , and most obedient , humble servant , RICHARD STEELE . COCEANS C ***** THE CONTENTS . VOLUME III . RELIGION , PRAYER DEDICATION .
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... most miferable . " It is confefsedly , indisputably true , that had these Chriftians been deftitute of that hope which was their fupport , they had funk under the weight of fuch sufferings , and fo had been the most miferable of all men ...
... most miferable . " It is confefsedly , indisputably true , that had these Chriftians been deftitute of that hope which was their fupport , they had funk under the weight of fuch sufferings , and fo had been the most miferable of all men ...
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... most submiffive pro- strations are there but like Dagon before the ark , the fall of a lifeless trunk ; the most elevated eyes but a kind of convulfive motion , and the most rigid mortifi- cations but like the lancings and cuttings of ...
... most submiffive pro- strations are there but like Dagon before the ark , the fall of a lifeless trunk ; the most elevated eyes but a kind of convulfive motion , and the most rigid mortifi- cations but like the lancings and cuttings of ...
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... most of their enormities in obe- dience , not in affront to them . They did not affign them votaries , as Jeroboam did , of the meanest of the peo- ple , but thought themselves dignified by their fervice , and and esteemed it an infamy ...
... most of their enormities in obe- dience , not in affront to them . They did not affign them votaries , as Jeroboam did , of the meanest of the peo- ple , but thought themselves dignified by their fervice , and and esteemed it an infamy ...
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... most inde- lible character of natural reason ; and therefore what- ever pretence our Atheists make to ratiocination and deep discourse , it is none of that primitive fundamental rea- son , coetaneous with our humanity , but is indeed a ...
... most inde- lible character of natural reason ; and therefore what- ever pretence our Atheists make to ratiocination and deep discourse , it is none of that primitive fundamental rea- son , coetaneous with our humanity , but is indeed a ...
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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.