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Page 134
It is not unjust to reason thus ; as I have hitherto found nothing but vanity in all the
enjoyments of the world , which I singled out for myself as most likely to make me
happy , this experience of what hath been shall guide me in my expectations of ...
It is not unjust to reason thus ; as I have hitherto found nothing but vanity in all the
enjoyments of the world , which I singled out for myself as most likely to make me
happy , this experience of what hath been shall guide me in my expectations of ...
Page 155
There should seem better reasons for deploring our fate because we are alive ,
than for congratulating one another on the happiness of seeing another new
years day . Ye desolate fainilies , in which death hath made such cruel breaches !
There should seem better reasons for deploring our fate because we are alive ,
than for congratulating one another on the happiness of seeing another new
years day . Ye desolate fainilies , in which death hath made such cruel breaches !
Page 188
This is what the passions do in the mind , and it is easy to comprehend the
reason St . Peter had to say in this view , fleshly lusts war against the soul .
Certainly one of the noblest advantages of man is to reason , to examine proofs
and weigh ...
This is what the passions do in the mind , and it is easy to comprehend the
reason St . Peter had to say in this view , fleshly lusts war against the soul .
Certainly one of the noblest advantages of man is to reason , to examine proofs
and weigh ...
Page 198
War against our reason , for instead of deriving , by virtue of a union to God ,
assistance necessary to the practice of what reason approves , and what grace
only renders practicable , we are given up to our evil dispositions , and
compelled by ...
War against our reason , for instead of deriving , by virtue of a union to God ,
assistance necessary to the practice of what reason approves , and what grace
only renders practicable , we are given up to our evil dispositions , and
compelled by ...
Page 286
We are going , by shewing you the Deity in four different views to open to you four
great deeps , and to give you four reasons for exclaiming with the apostle , O the
depth ! The four ways in which God reveals himself to man , are four manners ...
We are going , by shewing you the Deity in four different views to open to you four
great deeps , and to give you four reasons for exclaiming with the apostle , O the
depth ! The four ways in which God reveals himself to man , are four manners ...
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| Title | Sermons Translated from the Original French of the Late Rev. James Saurin ..., Volume 5 Sermons Translated from the Original French of the Late Rev. James Saurin, Joseph Sutcliffe |
| Authors | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson |
| Publisher | L. Nichols, 1806 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 22 Aug 2008 |
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