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... FIRM DEFENDER OF THE PURE AND REFORMED WORSHIP AND DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND , THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED BY HIS OBEDIENT AND FAITHFUL SERVANT , THE AUTHOR . CONTENTS . THE SOLDIER ........... ... ( The Sceptic ) A 2.
... FIRM DEFENDER OF THE PURE AND REFORMED WORSHIP AND DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND , THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED BY HIS OBEDIENT AND FAITHFUL SERVANT , THE AUTHOR . CONTENTS . THE SOLDIER ........... ... ( The Sceptic ) A 2.
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... Church should altogether escape the influence of such a feeling . There are , indeed , many persons who openly avow their opinion that she , in every way , stands in need of a great and A 3 end is answered . For this purpose he has made.
... Church should altogether escape the influence of such a feeling . There are , indeed , many persons who openly avow their opinion that she , in every way , stands in need of a great and A 3 end is answered . For this purpose he has made.
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... church , I should be provided with a living . This induced my easy guardians to grant an al- lowance from my small patrimony for the pur- pose , and I was placed in the University , where my unsocial habits induced me to become dili ...
... church , I should be provided with a living . This induced my easy guardians to grant an al- lowance from my small patrimony for the pur- pose , and I was placed in the University , where my unsocial habits induced me to become dili ...
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... churches , pal- aces , convents , and houses , mingled together above the eye , reflecting both a double light and casting a double shade from their snow - white walls ; it was , however , after the sun had risen that these noble ...
... churches , pal- aces , convents , and houses , mingled together above the eye , reflecting both a double light and casting a double shade from their snow - white walls ; it was , however , after the sun had risen that these noble ...
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... Church , until I had weighed those of the chief dissenters from it . The result of this I forbear at present to disclose , but will leave it to appear in the order of things , as I retrace some of the various means of information to ...
... Church , until I had weighed those of the chief dissenters from it . The result of this I forbear at present to disclose , but will leave it to appear in the order of things , as I retrace some of the various means of information to ...
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Page 130 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 387 - I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air : but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection : lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Page 146 - But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood...
Page 228 - A thing of dark imaginings, that shaped By choice the perils he by chance escaped ; But 'scaped in vain, for in their memory yet His mind would half exult and half regret : With more capacity for love than earth Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth...
Page 139 - Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Page 128 - LET THE WICKED FORSAKE HIS WAYS, AND THE UNRIGHTEOUS MAN HIS THOUGHTS: AND LET HIM RETURN UNTO THE LORD, AND HE WILL HAVE MERCY UPON HIM; AND TO OUR GOD, FOR HE WILL ABUNDANTLY PARDON.
Page 136 - God made thee perfect, not immutable; And good he made thee, but to persevere He left it in thy power; ordain'd thy will By nature free, not overruled by fate Inextricable, or strict necessity...
Page 387 - Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
Page 139 - Marvel not at this : for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in their graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth ; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
Page 233 - Symmetrical, but deck'd with carvings quaint — Strange faces, like to men in masquerade, And here perhaps a monster, there a saint : The spring gush'd through grim mouths of granite made, And sparkled into basins, where it spent Its little torrent in a thousand bubbles, Like man's vain glory, and his vainer troubles.