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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... blind conformity to custom and example . And First , That the custom of BALLS is de- structive of every religious fentiment , can any one C deny ( m ) Phil . ii . 5 . ( 2 ) 2 Tim . iii . 4 . deny who takes an impartial view of the ...
... blind conformity to custom and example . And First , That the custom of BALLS is de- structive of every religious fentiment , can any one C deny ( m ) Phil . ii . 5 . ( 2 ) 2 Tim . iii . 4 . deny who takes an impartial view of the ...
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... blind ; but when that fame " God who commanded the natural light to shine out of darkness , fbineth in our hearts , to give us the < c 66 light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the " face of Fefus Christ ( m ) ; then in his light ...
... blind ; but when that fame " God who commanded the natural light to shine out of darkness , fbineth in our hearts , to give us the < c 66 light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the " face of Fefus Christ ( m ) ; then in his light ...
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... blind conformity to its laws , without weighing the fatal confequences ; which is the cafe with fuch multitudes , who are contented to do wrong , meer- ly becaufe others have done fo before them ; and because they never fufpect that fo ...
... blind conformity to its laws , without weighing the fatal confequences ; which is the cafe with fuch multitudes , who are contented to do wrong , meer- ly becaufe others have done fo before them ; and because they never fufpect that fo ...
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... blind guide that affumes the name of a Chriftian ? Or fhall we rather make the unerring word of God our rule of life ? Surely we cannot hesitate in the choice . Indeed I think it may with great truth be affirmed , that the formal ...
... blind guide that affumes the name of a Chriftian ? Or fhall we rather make the unerring word of God our rule of life ? Surely we cannot hesitate in the choice . Indeed I think it may with great truth be affirmed , that the formal ...
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... blind man is of co- lours ; and know no more of a change of heart , than they do of the change of earth for heaven , or of their natural for a fpiritual body ? yet fome how or other these miserable self - deceivers contrive to keep ...
... blind man is of co- lours ; and know no more of a change of heart , than they do of the change of earth for heaven , or of their natural for a fpiritual body ? yet fome how or other these miserable self - deceivers contrive to keep ...
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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].