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... reflecting on his nature , and ac- knowledging his goodness , we may im- prove our faculties , and acquire fresh mo- tives to obedience . Men are commanded to pray without ceafing , not that the Crea- tor may be exalted by their prayers ...
... reflecting on his nature , and ac- knowledging his goodness , we may im- prove our faculties , and acquire fresh mo- tives to obedience . Men are commanded to pray without ceafing , not that the Crea- tor may be exalted by their prayers ...
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... reflection , that , through his care and vigilance , they are rendered kind , obedient , and virtuous ? As they advance in years , he finds them in all his labours his best affiftants , and in all his troubles his best support . When ...
... reflection , that , through his care and vigilance , they are rendered kind , obedient , and virtuous ? As they advance in years , he finds them in all his labours his best affiftants , and in all his troubles his best support . When ...
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... reflection upon his own danger , till he feels the blow that levels him with the dust . In this beautiful and fublime pfalm , the pious author reviews the shortness and va- nity of life ; and , while he meditates on the inftability of ...
... reflection upon his own danger , till he feels the blow that levels him with the dust . In this beautiful and fublime pfalm , the pious author reviews the shortness and va- nity of life ; and , while he meditates on the inftability of ...
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... reflection to the wife men of this world , that all their boasted and envied knowledge cannot ex- empt them from the fame fate which at- tends the meaneft of their fpecies , the moft groveling of the brute creation , and the obfcureft ...
... reflection to the wife men of this world , that all their boasted and envied knowledge cannot ex- empt them from the fame fate which at- tends the meaneft of their fpecies , the moft groveling of the brute creation , and the obfcureft ...
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... reflection , that death is the gate to eternal happiness or misery , can we not learn so to apply our hearts unto wisdom , that we may escape the worm which never dies ! With flow , perhaps , but with steady pace , the univerfal ...
... reflection , that death is the gate to eternal happiness or misery , can we not learn so to apply our hearts unto wisdom , that we may escape the worm which never dies ! With flow , perhaps , but with steady pace , the univerfal ...
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Sermons Preached in the Parish Church of St. Alban, Wood-Street: By Samuel ... Samuel Hoole No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 144 - God; who will render to every man according to his deeds: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil...
Page x - And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
Page 43 - God's Word written, neither may it so expound one place of Scripture, that it be repugnant to another. Wherefore, although the Church be a witness and a keeper of holy Writ, yet, as it ought not to decree any thing against the same, so besides the same ought it not to enforce any thing to be believed for necessity of Salvation.
Page 301 - Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain : let all the inhabitants of the land tremble : for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand...
Page 257 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 121 - LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am.
Page 310 - For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The Lord, The God of Hosts, is his name.
Page 121 - Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity.
Page 284 - Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
Page xi - I am this day fourscore years old : and can I discern between good and evil ? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink ? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women ? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king...