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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... give ardour to our devotion and fpirituality to our thoughts ; not to ' palfy the efforts of piety , virtue , and in- duftry . Saving grace is given to all who implore it ; and they who know this , yet do not afk for this blefling ...
... give ardour to our devotion and fpirituality to our thoughts ; not to ' palfy the efforts of piety , virtue , and in- duftry . Saving grace is given to all who implore it ; and they who know this , yet do not afk for this blefling ...
Page 28
... - tinomian licentioufnefs ; fo if the preacher infifts on human corruption , further than to convince his hearers of the neceffity of a Saviour and a Sanctifier , he gives them an an excufe for their fins , instead of a motive 28.
... - tinomian licentioufnefs ; fo if the preacher infifts on human corruption , further than to convince his hearers of the neceffity of a Saviour and a Sanctifier , he gives them an an excufe for their fins , instead of a motive 28.
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... . Is it not charging God foolishly , when we give thefe dark colourings to human nature ? Genefis , 9th chap . 6th verfe . Hebrews , 11th chap . verfe 4th . Ibid . verfe 5th . for for if man be fo utterly vile and diabolical , 32.
... . Is it not charging God foolishly , when we give thefe dark colourings to human nature ? Genefis , 9th chap . 6th verfe . Hebrews , 11th chap . verfe 4th . Ibid . verfe 5th . for for if man be fo utterly vile and diabolical , 32.
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... give . If we would employ the time fpent in fuch unprofitable difquifitions , which can only end in uncertainty and error , in earnest prayers to God that he would enable us to improve all godly motions , edification would be ...
... give . If we would employ the time fpent in fuch unprofitable difquifitions , which can only end in uncertainty and error , in earnest prayers to God that he would enable us to improve all godly motions , edification would be ...
Page 69
... to what heathen converts formerly experienced ; and , if I am rightly informed , a young * See the Thanksgiving after Baptifm . See Bishop Taylor's Life of Chrift , page 314 . perfon perfon is required to give proof that this change has 69.
... to what heathen converts formerly experienced ; and , if I am rightly informed , a young * See the Thanksgiving after Baptifm . See Bishop Taylor's Life of Chrift , page 314 . perfon perfon is required to give proof that this change has 69.
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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 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