Letters to a Young Lady: In which the Duties and Character of Women are Considered, Chiefly with a Reference to Prevailing Opinions, Volume 2 |
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... we can have no ftronger proof , that we must not take the " defperate " wickedness of man " in its strongest fenfe , than the affurance that we are ca- pable C 3 pable of " becoming good and faithful " fervants of 29.
... we can have no ftronger proof , that we must not take the " defperate " wickedness of man " in its strongest fenfe , than the affurance that we are ca- pable C 3 pable of " becoming good and faithful " fervants of 29.
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... becoming good and faithful " fervants of God . " In the heat of controverfy ( as I before obferved ) , many of our great reformers made ufe of expreffions , which even the bold figures of oriental imagery scarcely juftified them in ...
... becoming good and faithful " fervants of God . " In the heat of controverfy ( as I before obferved ) , many of our great reformers made ufe of expreffions , which even the bold figures of oriental imagery scarcely juftified them in ...
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... becomes ludi- crous , and a theme for prophane wit . " Lectures on Scripture Characters " ap- pear to me not wholly free from the cen- fure of overftrained allufion , or from the charge of fentimental refinements on the noble fimplicity ...
... becomes ludi- crous , and a theme for prophane wit . " Lectures on Scripture Characters " ap- pear to me not wholly free from the cen- fure of overftrained allufion , or from the charge of fentimental refinements on the noble fimplicity ...
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... become a caft - away . " Previous to his appearance before Nero , he implores the prayers of his converts , that utterance might be given him ; at other times he confeffes himself uninfpired ; and in his exhortation exhortation to the ...
... become a caft - away . " Previous to his appearance before Nero , he implores the prayers of his converts , that utterance might be given him ; at other times he confeffes himself uninfpired ; and in his exhortation exhortation to the ...
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... becomes fuitable . No notion can be more prejudicial to the cause of religion , than that we must be called from a state of indifference or depravity , by the terrors of an alarmed confcience , to a fuppofed affurance of holinefs and ...
... becomes fuitable . No notion can be more prejudicial to the cause of religion , than that we must be called from a state of indifference or depravity , by the terrors of an alarmed confcience , to a fuppofed affurance of holinefs and ...
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Page 248 - The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments duly administered, according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page 131 - THE grace of our Lord Jefus Chrift, and the love of God, and the fellowfhip of the Holy Ghoft, be, with us all evermore.
Page 145 - I know there is no other name under heaven by which men can be saved.
Page 243 - Whofo eateth my flefh, and drinketh my blood, . hath eternal life, and I will raife him up at the laft day.
Page 303 - that *' there is a time to weep as well as a " time to laugh, a time to dance, and a *
Page 242 - ... 64 But there are fome of you that believe not. For Jefus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who fhould betray him.
Page 182 - ... which eye hath not feen, ear hath not heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 81 - fhall the know-*' ledge >of the Lord cover the earth as
Page 351 - Arabs, like other Orientals, hold that, in such matters, man is saved, not by faith, but by want of faith. They have also a saying not unlike ours— " She partly is to blame who has been tried, He comes too near who comes to be denied.
Page 271 - if any provide not for his own, <£ and efpecially for thofe of his own " houfe, he hath denied the faith, and is