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... tion from fome doctrine contained in it ; so there is no doctrine in religion but what ties and obliges us to fome duty that is enjoined by it . When therefore I call reli- gion an obligation , I include in that term all those doc ...
... tion from fome doctrine contained in it ; so there is no doctrine in religion but what ties and obliges us to fome duty that is enjoined by it . When therefore I call reli- gion an obligation , I include in that term all those doc ...
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... tion . For whatever it naturally dictates , it must dictate by his direction , who is the Author of its nature , and who having framed it to speak such a sense , and pronounce fuch a judgment of things , has thereby put his word into ...
... tion . For whatever it naturally dictates , it must dictate by his direction , who is the Author of its nature , and who having framed it to speak such a sense , and pronounce fuch a judgment of things , has thereby put his word into ...
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... tion was ever thought by the light of nature subservient to our true happiness . Hierocles in the beginning of his divine comments , gives us a short but full account of the Pythagorean , Pythagorean , and , I may add , Platonick ...
... tion was ever thought by the light of nature subservient to our true happiness . Hierocles in the beginning of his divine comments , gives us a short but full account of the Pythagorean , Pythagorean , and , I may add , Platonick ...
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i the doctrine of mortification , any prejudice to this affer- tion ; for neither affliction nor mortification are incon- sistent with the true happiness of man . That affliction is not , the examples of those very martyrs and ...
i the doctrine of mortification , any prejudice to this affer- tion ; for neither affliction nor mortification are incon- sistent with the true happiness of man . That affliction is not , the examples of those very martyrs and ...
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... 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 imme- diate intercourse with God in ...
... 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 imme- diate intercourse with God in ...
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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.