The Christian LifeR.N., 1686 - Christian life |
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... doubtless a moft glorious Place , and all its bleffed Inhabitants do poffefs and hold it by an everlasting Tenure , yet ' tis a great mistake to imagine that the main happiness of Heaven confifts in living for ever in a glorious Place ...
... doubtless a moft glorious Place , and all its bleffed Inhabitants do poffefs and hold it by an everlasting Tenure , yet ' tis a great mistake to imagine that the main happiness of Heaven confifts in living for ever in a glorious Place ...
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... Likenes that does congregate & afsociate Beings together ; fo doubtless it is in the other too . So that if we carry with us thither our wicked and devilligh devillifh difpofitions ( as we shall doubtlefs do , un- 38 Of the Chriftian Life .
... Likenes that does congregate & afsociate Beings together ; fo doubtless it is in the other too . So that if we carry with us thither our wicked and devilligh devillifh difpofitions ( as we shall doubtlefs do , un- 38 Of the Chriftian Life .
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... doubtless fly away from them , and rather chufe to be for ever Infenfible , than be condemned to an everlasting Perception of what is so ungrateful to our Natures . So that till we have in fome mea- fure moderated our Concupifcible ...
... doubtless fly away from them , and rather chufe to be for ever Infenfible , than be condemned to an everlasting Perception of what is so ungrateful to our Natures . So that till we have in fome mea- fure moderated our Concupifcible ...
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John Scott. nor our Perceptions fo brisk and exquifite as they will doubtless be , when we are ftript into naked Spirits ; yet if we go away into the other World with thefe Affections unmortified in us , they will not only be far more ...
John Scott. nor our Perceptions fo brisk and exquifite as they will doubtless be , when we are ftript into naked Spirits ; yet if we go away into the other World with thefe Affections unmortified in us , they will not only be far more ...
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... Body , it wholly abandons it felf to Corporeal Pleasures , it may , and doubtless will , retain a vehement bankering after it , and longing to be re- n + united to it ; which , I conceive , is united 70 Of the Chriftian Life .
... Body , it wholly abandons it felf to Corporeal Pleasures , it may , and doubtless will , retain a vehement bankering after it , and longing to be re- n + united to it ; which , I conceive , is united 70 Of the Chriftian Life .
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Page 358 - But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
Page 367 - Let him that stole steal no more; but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Page 388 - For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
Page 388 - For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
Page 37 - Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doth the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Page 347 - If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind...
Page 247 - Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft : teaching them to obferve all things whatfoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.
Page 242 - ... strengths and capacities, and, like Jacob, hath marched softly and in evenness with the children and the cattle, to entertain us by the comforts of his company, and the influence of a perpetual guide. He that gives alms to the poor takes Jesus by the...
Page 136 - Means of which we can exprefs our Thoughts, and maintain a mutual Intelligence of Minds, with one another ; and thereby divert our Sorrows, mingle our Mirth, impart our Secrets, communicate our Counfels, and make mutual Compacts and Agreements to fupply and affift each other.
Page 247 - Authority to send others, and with a Promise that he would be with them to the End of the World.