Essays Moral and Entertaining: On the Various Faculties and Passions of the Human Mind, Volumes 1-2Reprinted for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815 - Christian ethics |
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... cultivating and shaping and directing of the mind , we give scarce a thought , not an hour of our life ; never suppress a passion , never reform an affection ; insomuch as ( though never age had fewer wise men to shew to the OF LIFE . 13.
... cultivating and shaping and directing of the mind , we give scarce a thought , not an hour of our life ; never suppress a passion , never reform an affection ; insomuch as ( though never age had fewer wise men to shew to the OF LIFE . 13.
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... give our minds , what books to read for the informing and strengthen- ing our understandings , and conclude that it is as impossible for the mind to be improved without those supplies , as for the body to subsist without its natural ...
... give our minds , what books to read for the informing and strengthen- ing our understandings , and conclude that it is as impossible for the mind to be improved without those supplies , as for the body to subsist without its natural ...
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... give to an enemy , who doth in truth enter into our habitation by force , though he doth subdue us ; let it not have the entertainment of a friend , of a companion for whose presence we were solicitous : if we want power and strength to ...
... give to an enemy , who doth in truth enter into our habitation by force , though he doth subdue us ; let it not have the entertainment of a friend , of a companion for whose presence we were solicitous : if we want power and strength to ...
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... give credit to his dictates , should delude them selves and others with such vain and impious ima- ginations , and hope to avoid a judgment that is so unavoidably pronounced , by such weak excuses as cannot absolve men from the most ...
... give credit to his dictates , should delude them selves and others with such vain and impious ima- ginations , and hope to avoid a judgment that is so unavoidably pronounced , by such weak excuses as cannot absolve men from the most ...
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... give fair warning , are discovered afar off , and we have time to fight or fly ; but envy hath no fixed open residence , no man knows where it dwells , nor can discern when it marches ; it is a squadroni volante , that declares no war ...
... give fair warning , are discovered afar off , and we have time to fight or fly ; but envy hath no fixed open residence , no man knows where it dwells , nor can discern when it marches ; it is a squadroni volante , that declares no war ...
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Page 87 - For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
Page 148 - For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. 12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
Page 61 - And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid : and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
Page 196 - And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last : and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
Page 66 - Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself ? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal ? Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery ? Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege ? Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God ? For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
Page 156 - And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient, being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness ; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity ; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful...
Page 108 - For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ ; which is far better: nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
Page 92 - To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
Page 53 - But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother'be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Page 162 - If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance ; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.