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... pursue mental cultivation and to prosecute schemes for intellectual improvement . It furnishes the most persuasive motives to piety . It opens before us a prospect of j boundless and eternal good . It pours a flood of light upon all the ...
... pursue mental cultivation and to prosecute schemes for intellectual improvement . It furnishes the most persuasive motives to piety . It opens before us a prospect of j boundless and eternal good . It pours a flood of light upon all the ...
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... pursue no other object with equal advantage . So urgent and constant in its claims , that it demands your attention every moment of your life . - the 3. Have you not suffered a part of your lives to pass away without improvement ? Pause ...
... pursue no other object with equal advantage . So urgent and constant in its claims , that it demands your attention every moment of your life . - the 3. Have you not suffered a part of your lives to pass away without improvement ? Pause ...
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... pursued by many and approved almost by all . I say almost by all . For there are some persons of a pious turn of mind , who ad- mire weakness and ignorance , and when connected with a religious profession , are esteemed by them as a ...
... pursued by many and approved almost by all . I say almost by all . For there are some persons of a pious turn of mind , who ad- mire weakness and ignorance , and when connected with a religious profession , are esteemed by them as a ...
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... pursuing the things that I have mentioned . I am of opinion that a person may have strong powers of mind , an accurate knowledge , and commanding use of language , may produce many works of art which are both curious and useful , —may ...
... pursuing the things that I have mentioned . I am of opinion that a person may have strong powers of mind , an accurate knowledge , and commanding use of language , may produce many works of art which are both curious and useful , —may ...
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... pursuing his worldly business , any additional opportunities offer themselves for religious exercises , he gladly embraces them , and occupies larger por- tions of time in the immediate worship of God . He is not only desirous that a ...
... pursuing his worldly business , any additional opportunities offer themselves for religious exercises , he gladly embraces them , and occupies larger por- tions of time in the immediate worship of God . He is not only desirous that a ...
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Page 407 - And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books were opened ; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Page 14 - tis madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Page 37 - Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord ; And I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, And feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Page 194 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Page 214 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 360 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 111 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Page 111 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Page 406 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes : but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 14 - And he said, This will I do : I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years ; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.