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... particular worldly pleasure , when it is entirely turned upon God , and the contemplation of his all- sufficiency and abundance , doth find in God fit subject , and just occasion to exercise the same affection piously , and religiously ...
... particular worldly pleasure , when it is entirely turned upon God , and the contemplation of his all- sufficiency and abundance , doth find in God fit subject , and just occasion to exercise the same affection piously , and religiously ...
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... particular , particular men have been addicted to , shall not only be justly employed upon God , but also securely em- ployed , because we cannot exceed , nor go too far in employing them upon him . According to this rule , St. Paul ...
... particular , particular men have been addicted to , shall not only be justly employed upon God , but also securely em- ployed , because we cannot exceed , nor go too far in employing them upon him . According to this rule , St. Paul ...
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... particular persons , that we would fain love them , and cannot ? when we can object nothing against it , when we can multiply arguments , why should we love them , yet we cannot : but it is not so towards God ; every man may love him ...
... particular persons , that we would fain love them , and cannot ? when we can object nothing against it , when we can multiply arguments , why should we love them , yet we cannot : but it is not so towards God ; every man may love him ...
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... particular man may have ; that Christ will be found , except he be sought ; he gives us light to seek him by , but he is not found till we have sought him ; it is true that in that commandment of his , Primum quærite regnum Dei ; First ...
... particular man may have ; that Christ will be found , except he be sought ; he gives us light to seek him by , but he is not found till we have sought him ; it is true that in that commandment of his , Primum quærite regnum Dei ; First ...
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... particular , Evil shall come upon thee , and thou shalt not know , shakrah , the morning , the beginning of it ; and therefore this text is elegantly translated by one , Auro- rantes ad me , They that have their break of day towards me ...
... particular , Evil shall come upon thee , and thou shalt not know , shakrah , the morning , the beginning of it ; and therefore this text is elegantly translated by one , Auro- rantes ad me , They that have their break of day towards me ...
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Page 536 - A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls, to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say, The breath goes now, and some say, no...
Page 263 - And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
Page 112 - But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed then Eve. And Adam was not deceived ; but the woman, being deceived, was in the transgression ; notwithstanding she shall be saved in child-bearing, if they continue in faith, and charity, and holiness with sobriety.
Page 37 - But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
Page 430 - Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so, For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy...
Page 529 - When thou hast done, thou has not done, For I have more. Wilt thou forgive that sin which I have won Others to sin, and made my sin their door? Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two, but wallowed in a score? *° When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more.
Page 530 - Others to sin and made my sin their door? Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two but wallowed in a score? When thou hast done, thou hast not done. For I have more. I have a sin of fear that when I've spun My last thread I shall perish on the shore.
Page 537 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the .other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run: Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
Page 234 - But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Page 550 - Whilst my Physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their Map, who lie Flat on this bed, that by them may be shown That this is my South-west discovery...