An Address to Persons of Fashion: Containing Some Particulars Relating to Balls: and a Few Occasional Hints Concerning Play-houses, Card-tables, Xc., in which is Introduced the Character of Lucinda, a Lady of the Very Best Fashion, and of Most Extraordinary Piety ... |
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... Spirit of Christianity , and that it is not poffible to be present at them without incurring great guilt . All I defire of those who read the following pages is , ( what I have already requested in the Preface ) that they will for a ...
... Spirit of Christianity , and that it is not poffible to be present at them without incurring great guilt . All I defire of those who read the following pages is , ( what I have already requested in the Preface ) that they will for a ...
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... Spirit , which conftitutes the real Chriftian ; and that BALLS do tend intirely to prevent the attainment of fuch a temper , and cannot but be very pernicious to our fouls , will be fully proved hereafter . There are many things not ...
... Spirit , which conftitutes the real Chriftian ; and that BALLS do tend intirely to prevent the attainment of fuch a temper , and cannot but be very pernicious to our fouls , will be fully proved hereafter . There are many things not ...
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... Spirit , and be striving to enter in at the ftrait gate ( c ) . Can any man in his fenfes make fuch a fuppofition ? But here , ( according to the fecond argument ) it will be faid , that the world ( at least the part of it which we ...
... Spirit , and be striving to enter in at the ftrait gate ( c ) . Can any man in his fenfes make fuch a fuppofition ? But here , ( according to the fecond argument ) it will be faid , that the world ( at least the part of it which we ...
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... Spirit of Adoption whereby they cry abba Father ? and do they through that Spirit mortify the deeds of the body ( p ) ? Are their affections fet on things above , and not on things on the earth ( q ) ? Are they not con- formed to this ...
... Spirit of Adoption whereby they cry abba Father ? and do they through that Spirit mortify the deeds of the body ( p ) ? Are their affections fet on things above , and not on things on the earth ( q ) ? Are they not con- formed to this ...
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... Spirits whether they are of God ( c ) : and though we are not to pass hafty cenfures upon any , yet we must not so far dishonour the Gospel of our bleffed Saviour , as to admit every vain pre- tender to Chriftianity into the clafs of ...
... Spirits whether they are of God ( c ) : and though we are not to pass hafty cenfures upon any , yet we must not so far dishonour the Gospel of our bleffed Saviour , as to admit every vain pre- tender to Chriftianity into the clafs of ...
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Page 46 - And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him.
Page 51 - I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Page 51 - Becaufe thou fayeft, I am rich, and increafed with goods, and have need of nothing: and knoweft not that thou art wretched, and miferable, and poor, and blind, and naked.
Page 34 - Let light shine out of darkness,' made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.
Page 12 - For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly ; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh : but he is a Jew who is one inwardly ; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter ; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Page 57 - ... broad is the way, and wide is the gate that leadeth to destruction, and many there be that go in thereat...
Page 60 - It was to me a very terrible one, dwelling much on hell and judgment, and what a fearful thing it is to fall into the hands of the living God.
Page 62 - ... to fave to the uttermoft all that come unto God by him.
Page 31 - Methinks, we need not our short beings shun, And, thought to fly, contend to be undone. We need not buy our ruin with our crime, And give eternity to murder time. The love of gaming is the worst of ills ; With ceaseless storms the blacken'd soul it fills ; 1 Shakespeare VOL.
Page 33 - Chrift erects in the hearts of all his people, to make them meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the faints in light (d].