Sermons to Asses, to Doctors in Divinity, to Lords Spiritual and to Ministers of State: With an Engraved Portrait of the Author and an Original Sketch of His Life |
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... ready to fix a burden upon them . Perhaps I shall give offence by repeating this disagreeable epithet : I shall lay it aside , and , instead of the sign , pursue the thing signified . The original word signifies an ass of bone , which ...
... ready to fix a burden upon them . Perhaps I shall give offence by repeating this disagreeable epithet : I shall lay it aside , and , instead of the sign , pursue the thing signified . The original word signifies an ass of bone , which ...
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... ready to seduce us : bad as men are , they would not be so ill if they were not seduced . Shall parents neglect to instruct us in the rudiments of true wisdom , and not provide tutors to conduct us in the paths of knowledge , the world ...
... ready to seduce us : bad as men are , they would not be so ill if they were not seduced . Shall parents neglect to instruct us in the rudiments of true wisdom , and not provide tutors to conduct us in the paths of knowledge , the world ...
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... ready in time of war to venture their lives for its safety ? Nay , it is pinching hunger that is the cause of it . Some few there may be , that may join in riots without a cause ; but the subjects of Britain love their King and Country ...
... ready in time of war to venture their lives for its safety ? Nay , it is pinching hunger that is the cause of it . Some few there may be , that may join in riots without a cause ; but the subjects of Britain love their King and Country ...
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... ready , like Phaeton , who re- ceived the direction of his father's chariot , to set the world on fire . One cause of our present complaints , both as to civil and religious oppression , is , that we look not to ourselves , but think ...
... ready , like Phaeton , who re- ceived the direction of his father's chariot , to set the world on fire . One cause of our present complaints , both as to civil and religious oppression , is , that we look not to ourselves , but think ...
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... ready and willing to take on any burden . The meanness of the greatest number of freeholders in Britain is conspicuous in their stooping down to take on every burden that any overgrown duke or knight pleases to impose upon them . When ...
... ready and willing to take on any burden . The meanness of the greatest number of freeholders in Britain is conspicuous in their stooping down to take on every burden that any overgrown duke or knight pleases to impose upon them . When ...
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Page 21 - For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee : 6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
Page 47 - Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then ? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
Page 22 - But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: and whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Page 44 - His watchmen are blind : they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark ; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand : they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
Page 39 - When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again and a recompense be made thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind...
Page 52 - Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him ? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth ? saith the Lord.
Page 45 - And Haman said unto King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws, therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.
Page 47 - For the man whom the king delighteth to honour, let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head : and let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour...
Page 3 - Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth : for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak : and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me ; for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
Page 8 - Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight; that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.