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... nature excel- lent things are few . The world hath not many funs or moons : it is but a little of the earth that is gold or filver . Princes and mobles are but a fmall part of the fons of men ; and it is no great number that are learned ...
... nature excel- lent things are few . The world hath not many funs or moons : it is but a little of the earth that is gold or filver . Princes and mobles are but a fmall part of the fons of men ; and it is no great number that are learned ...
Page 38
... nature itfelf doth teach us all to lay the blame of evil works upon the doers , and therefore , when we fee any heinous thing done , a principle of juftice doth provoke us to in- quire after him that did it , that the evil of the work ...
... nature itfelf doth teach us all to lay the blame of evil works upon the doers , and therefore , when we fee any heinous thing done , a principle of juftice doth provoke us to in- quire after him that did it , that the evil of the work ...
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... nature of the fubject , who will not be fully ruled by any lower means than the hopes or fears of everlasting things : As it is in the cafe of temporal pu- nishment ; if a law were now made , that the most heinous crimes fhall be ...
... nature of the fubject , who will not be fully ruled by any lower means than the hopes or fears of everlasting things : As it is in the cafe of temporal pu- nishment ; if a law were now made , that the most heinous crimes fhall be ...
Page 53
... nature between both , as partaking of both flesh and fpirit , fo he is made for earth , but as his paffage or way to heaven , and not that this fhould be his home or happiness . The bleffed state that man was made for was to behold the ...
... nature between both , as partaking of both flesh and fpirit , fo he is made for earth , but as his paffage or way to heaven , and not that this fhould be his home or happiness . The bleffed state that man was made for was to behold the ...
Page 54
... nature before the fting ; fo in our infancy we have those finful natures , or inclina- tions , before we think , or fpeak , or do amifs and hence fpringeth all the fin of our lives . And not only fo , but when God hath of his mercy ...
... nature before the fting ; fo in our infancy we have those finful natures , or inclina- tions , before we think , or fpeak , or do amifs and hence fpringeth all the fin of our lives . And not only fo , but when God hath of his mercy ...
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Page 43 - Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him...
Page 97 - Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath ; "that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the Hope set before us...
Page 167 - Because I have called and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded ; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity: I will mock when your fear cometh ; When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me...
Page 76 - Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel...
Page 139 - Enter ye in at the strait gate : for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat : because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it...
Page 188 - Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
Page 82 - The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree ; him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. And we are his witnesses of these things, and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
Page 164 - O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.
Page 167 - Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Page 152 - It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting : for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning ; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.