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... and lost power by your charms ! That ingenuous spirit in all your behaviour , that familiar grace in your words and actions , has for this seven years only infpi- - red red admiration and love , but ex- perience has taught DEDICATION .
... and lost power by your charms ! That ingenuous spirit in all your behaviour , that familiar grace in your words and actions , has for this seven years only infpi- - red red admiration and love , but ex- perience has taught DEDICATION .
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... word which , from its derivation , signifies a binding , or obliging us to God ; wherefore " true religion , " in the general , is the obligation of reasonable creatures " to render fuch acts of worship to God , as are suitable " to the ...
... word which , from its derivation , signifies a binding , or obliging us to God ; wherefore " true religion , " in the general , is the obligation of reasonable creatures " to render fuch acts of worship to God , as are suitable " to the ...
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... word into its mouth , and does himself speak through it , as through . a ftanding oracle , which he has erected in our breasts , to convey and deliver his own mind and will to us . Whatsoever then natural reason , rightly exercised ...
... word into its mouth , and does himself speak through it , as through . a ftanding oracle , which he has erected in our breasts , to convey and deliver his own mind and will to us . Whatsoever then natural reason , rightly exercised ...
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... word , none of our appetites need be restrained , but fatisfied . This uncontrouled licentiousness , this brutish liberty , is that chief good , that fupreme happiness which they propose to themselves , and to which they invite others ...
... word , none of our appetites need be restrained , but fatisfied . This uncontrouled licentiousness , this brutish liberty , is that chief good , that fupreme happiness which they propose to themselves , and to which they invite others ...
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... word , making him Lord of himself , giving him by that , all the pleasures which refult from such a fovereignty . Nor is he totally void even of the pleasures of fenfe , which in many instances are greater to him , than to those who ...
... word , making him Lord of himself , giving him by that , all the pleasures which refult from such a fovereignty . Nor is he totally void even of the pleasures of fenfe , which in many instances are greater to him , than to those who ...
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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.