 | Monthly literary register - 1811 - 766 pages
...dot; by studying the Scriptures, he certainly Must improve his disposition to fulfil his task in " that state of life to which it has pleased God to call him." There is hardly achaptcr in the whole Bible which does not, in some part, directly or by inference,... | |
 | 1853 - 636 pages
...against no appeal of ignorance or of sin, of sorrow or of suffering. It is by these men labouring each in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call him — profiting each by the talents with which his Master hath entrusted him — that the length and... | |
 | Art - 1811 - 718 pages
...duty 'by studying ihe Scriptures, he certainly must improve his disposition to fulfil his task in " that state of life to which it has pleased God to call him." There is Jiardly a chapter in the whole Bible which does not, in some part, directly or by inference,... | |
 | England - 1853 - 796 pages
...out of his dream to put on rags and loathe them ; and thus will he grow up into a sour discontent of that " state of life to which it has pleased God to call him." We most seriously and earnestly, nay, solemnly, warn all people against this new tuition as a substitute... | |
 | John Edward Nassau Molesworth - Advent sermons - 1825 - 478 pages
...cannot raise himself above his present situation, his only course is to exert himself diligently in that state of life, to which it has pleased God to call him. i . . . In corroboration of this reasoning I again appeal to the example of Scotland, contending that... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Sermons, English - 1825 - 472 pages
...particular calling in life : to the performance of his duty (as our catechism well expresses it) " in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call him." If there were nothing to distinguish virtue from vice, and benevolence from oppression, if the same... | |
 | 654 pages
...distinction between duties created by positive law, and duties merely moral. For instance, each ought " to do his duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call him;" but many things are included in this comprehensive injunction that no legislation could enforce. It is... | |
 | 1836 - 574 pages
...THE CONSERVATIVE.— The true Conservative is one, who, faithful to God and his country, seeks " to do his duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call him." Regarding the institutions of his couutry as designed, not for the aggrandisement of a party, but for... | |
 | J C. Bluett - 1836 - 184 pages
...proceed ;" and, so far from losing his " station in society," he cannot fail to maintain his place in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call him, because it will then be reasonably believed that he is an anti -duellist, not from the cowardly fear... | |
 | Edward Osler - Church and state - 1837 - 200 pages
...duty, or character. The true Conservative is one, who, faithful to God and his Country, seeks " to do his duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call him." Regarding the institutions of his Country as designed, not for the aggrandizement of a party, but for... | |
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... in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call him. 
