 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1816 - 614 pages
...would improve both in their manners and in their morals, and learn to become more happy and content in that state of life, to which it has pleased God to call them. VI. Another regulation of crying necessity at this time, and of vast importance at all times ; is a... | |
 | 1822 - 588 pages
...do without it, and they may r«ly upon receiving it in cases of real need. They know that if they " do their duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call them," they may pass their lives in perfect liberty under the protection of the laws of the land. In former... | |
 | John Edward Nassau Molesworth - Advent sermons - 1825 - 478 pages
...acceptable to him. They are doing what he has enjoined and recommended in his Scriptures : they are doing their " duty, in that state of life, to which it has pleased" him " to call them." If, indeed, the care of their families lead them to acts of dishonesty, to the... | |
 | Samuel Beazley - 1828 - 266 pages
...excite their envy ; and how many of them go home dissatisfied, with what the Catechism denominates " that state of life, to which it has pleased God to call them !" Poor short-sighted mortals! — as though a diamond stomacher could defend the heart from a pang... | |
 | William Russell Macdonald - Anti-Catholic literature - 1829 - 286 pages
...what they express ; thus, indeed, making them "of none effect by the commandments of men." Those who do their " duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call them," do it " worthily ;" but we are not to make so great a merit of our bare duties as to claim spiritual... | |
 | Richard Parkinson - Sermons, English - 1832 - 380 pages
...parents, and all such as are put in authority over them. That they murmur not at their lot, but diligently do their duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call them; —that they never forget, that a disobedient child has seldom proved a good man ; and that he who... | |
 | Frances Milton Trollope - Paris (France) - 1836 - 446 pages
...placed them ? Shall they listen to the inward whisperings which tell them, that, being utterly unfitted to do their duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call them, they must of necessity and by the inevitable nature of things be fitted for some other ? . . . What... | |
 | Frances Trollope - Paris (France) - 1836 - 612 pages
...listen to the inward whisperings which tell them, that, being utterly unfitted to do their duly in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call them, they must of necessity and by the inevitable nature of things be fitted for some other ? . . . What... | |
 | Edward Osler - Church and state - 1837 - 200 pages
...characters. The former are chiefly men, who study to be quiet, and to mind their own business, and to do their duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call them ; desiring to live in peace with their neighbours, and coveting no distinction beyond that which properly... | |
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... to do their duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call them. 
