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... follow- ing lines are offered by one , who has received great benefit from his most valuable works . FAREWELL , good man ! whose great and heavenly mind , In love embraced the whole of human kind ; From earth's dark scene , to realms of ...
... follow- ing lines are offered by one , who has received great benefit from his most valuable works . FAREWELL , good man ! whose great and heavenly mind , In love embraced the whole of human kind ; From earth's dark scene , to realms of ...
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... follow Christ ; it must be in our common way of spending every day . Thus it is in all the virtues and holy tempers of Chris- tianity ; they are not ours , unless they be the virtues and tempers of our ordinary life . So that ...
... follow Christ ; it must be in our common way of spending every day . Thus it is in all the virtues and holy tempers of Chris- tianity ; they are not ours , unless they be the virtues and tempers of our ordinary life . So that ...
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... follow public diver- sions , and trifle away her time in idle visits and corrupt conversation ; and does the other study the art of im- proving her time , living in prayer and watching , and such good works , as may make her time turn ...
... follow public diver- sions , and trifle away her time in idle visits and corrupt conversation ; and does the other study the art of im- proving her time , living in prayer and watching , and such good works , as may make her time turn ...
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... follow ; any rules of re- deeming time , which he does not observe ; his own heart would tell him it is because he never intended to be so ex- act in those duties . For , whenever we fully intend it , it is as possible , to conform to ...
... follow ; any rules of re- deeming time , which he does not observe ; his own heart would tell him it is because he never intended to be so ex- act in those duties . For , whenever we fully intend it , it is as possible , to conform to ...
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... follow him in a wise and heavenly course of life , in the mortification of all worldly desires , and in purifying and preparing their souls for the enjoyment of God . For to be vain , or proud , or covetous , or ambitious in the commcn ...
... follow him in a wise and heavenly course of life , in the mortification of all worldly desires , and in purifying and preparing their souls for the enjoyment of God . For to be vain , or proud , or covetous , or ambitious in the commcn ...
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Page 55 - Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was an hungered and ye gave me no meat ; I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink ; I was a stranger and ye took me not in ; naked and ye clothed me not ; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Page 112 - Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed : and I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth : lo, there thou hast that is thine.
Page 208 - And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers ; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot...
Page 55 - Come, ye blessed of my Father, Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was hungry, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Page 55 - ... and before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand. Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world...
Page 162 - IF ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth : For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Page 74 - Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.
Page xii - A Demonstration of the gross and fundamental Errors of a late Book, called, "A plain Account of the Nature and End of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper," affectionately addressed to all Orders of Men, and more especially to all the younger Clergy, 1735,
Page 167 - Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh : yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
Page 207 - For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.