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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... pleasures among Chriftians as are to be met with in a modern Ball - Room ? No , the honour of thefe improvements is all due to us , who have been fo long blessed with the transcendent light of the Gofpel ; scarcely did the Pagan world ...
... pleasures among Chriftians as are to be met with in a modern Ball - Room ? No , the honour of thefe improvements is all due to us , who have been fo long blessed with the transcendent light of the Gofpel ; scarcely did the Pagan world ...
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... pleasures of the world , and take it up again when he has no other engagements upon his hands . If this then be the character of the true Chriftian , what fhall I fay to those who have fcarcely the fhadow of it ? Can you poffibly think ...
... pleasures of the world , and take it up again when he has no other engagements upon his hands . If this then be the character of the true Chriftian , what fhall I fay to those who have fcarcely the fhadow of it ? Can you poffibly think ...
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... pleasure , more than lovers of God ( n ) . SECTION THE SECOND . TH HUS much for my answer to the third ar- gument in favour of BALLS . And now I cannot but think that every unprejudiced perfon will allow that what I have already ...
... pleasure , more than lovers of God ( n ) . SECTION THE SECOND . TH HUS much for my answer to the third ar- gument in favour of BALLS . And now I cannot but think that every unprejudiced perfon will allow that what I have already ...
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... But whether all perfons choose to look upon the diverfion of BALLS as wicked or not ; yet we have the authority of an Apoftle to fay , that he that lives lives in pleasure , is dead while she liveth ( 18 An Address relating to BALLS , & c .
... But whether all perfons choose to look upon the diverfion of BALLS as wicked or not ; yet we have the authority of an Apoftle to fay , that he that lives lives in pleasure , is dead while she liveth ( 18 An Address relating to BALLS , & c .
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... pleasure , is dead while she liveth ( o ) . She may indeed be in perfect health and spirits ; and be greatly admired ... pleasures of the world , fhe is dead to the things of God , Another weighty argument against BALLS is , that they ...
... pleasure , is dead while she liveth ( o ) . She may indeed be in perfect health and spirits ; and be greatly admired ... pleasures of the world , fhe is dead to the things of God , Another weighty argument against BALLS is , that they ...
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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].