The Ladies Library: ... Written by a Lady. Published by Sir Richard Steele, Volume 3W. Strahan, 1772 - Conduct of life |
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... perfect day . Wherefore Chriftianity , which in strictness is nothing but the doctrine of the mediation , together with its appen- dant duties , ought not to be looked upon as a new reli- gion of 1700 years date ; for , in reality , it ...
... perfect day . Wherefore Chriftianity , which in strictness is nothing but the doctrine of the mediation , together with its appen- dant duties , ought not to be looked upon as a new reli- gion of 1700 years date ; for , in reality , it ...
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... perfect dispensation , does propose to us , as our great and chief end , life and immor- tality ; yet it does by no means exclude us from happiness here , but rather establishes it upon proper and firm foun- dations , and fences it ...
... perfect dispensation , does propose to us , as our great and chief end , life and immor- tality ; yet it does by no means exclude us from happiness here , but rather establishes it upon proper and firm foun- dations , and fences it ...
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... perfect and eternal happiness which is promised hereafter ; since it is plain enough from the ordinary course of providence , that the happiness of this life and the other are not incom- patible : But on the contrary , that that wherein ...
... perfect and eternal happiness which is promised hereafter ; since it is plain enough from the ordinary course of providence , that the happiness of this life and the other are not incom- patible : But on the contrary , that that wherein ...
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... selves ? And furely so perfect a vacancy is neither happy nor safe ; wherefore God , who projects we should be both , never designed it for any of mankind ; but where he 4 he gives so much liberty from secular , he 30 RELIGION .
... selves ? And furely so perfect a vacancy is neither happy nor safe ; wherefore God , who projects we should be both , never designed it for any of mankind ; but where he 4 he gives so much liberty from secular , he 30 RELIGION .
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... perfect ; with holy " fear , and holy love , " and indeed every thing that per- tains to a holy life . When we fee ourselves placed in the eye of God , who sets us to work , and will reward us plen- teoufly , to serve him with eye ...
... perfect ; with holy " fear , and holy love , " and indeed every thing that per- tains to a holy life . When we fee ourselves placed in the eye of God , who sets us to work , and will reward us plen- teoufly , to serve him with eye ...
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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.