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... Such a Soul as this ftandeth firm as a Rock , out- braving all the Storms of Fortune , making its envious Waves retire in empty Foam , and infignificant Paffi- on : But wherefoever these brave Qualities are wanting , it is impoffible a ...
... Such a Soul as this ftandeth firm as a Rock , out- braving all the Storms of Fortune , making its envious Waves retire in empty Foam , and infignificant Paffi- on : But wherefoever these brave Qualities are wanting , it is impoffible a ...
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... such an Errour as doth defeat the great Ends of Christian Society , I am bound either to keep my Perfwafion to my self , or at least not to disturb the Peace of the Church in my En- deavours to propagate it to others because , next to ...
... such an Errour as doth defeat the great Ends of Christian Society , I am bound either to keep my Perfwafion to my self , or at least not to disturb the Peace of the Church in my En- deavours to propagate it to others because , next to ...
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... such a Piece of Cruelty , do ye think , con- fift with the Tenderness and Compaf- fion which our Religion enjoyns ? II . It is deftructive of the Union and Harmony among Chriftians which the Chriftian Religion re- quires : For certainly ...
... such a Piece of Cruelty , do ye think , con- fift with the Tenderness and Compaf- fion which our Religion enjoyns ? II . It is deftructive of the Union and Harmony among Chriftians which the Chriftian Religion re- quires : For certainly ...
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... such a Per- fuafion inspire me ? We have a late and woful Instance among our felves of the Courage with which a falfe Perfuafion that God was with them , did animate and inspire Men , when they were wont to say Grace to their bloody ...
... such a Per- fuafion inspire me ? We have a late and woful Instance among our felves of the Courage with which a falfe Perfuafion that God was with them , did animate and inspire Men , when they were wont to say Grace to their bloody ...
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... such a just Indignati- on against them ? And then when any Danger is marching towards them , they have nothing but the Arm of Flesh to confide in ; and if that prove too weak , they are defperate . But how can they be fecure that this ...
... such a just Indignati- on against them ? And then when any Danger is marching towards them , they have nothing but the Arm of Flesh to confide in ; and if that prove too weak , they are defperate . But how can they be fecure that this ...
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Page 453 - The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.
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Page 475 - Life," which has been often printed, and much read. The first part was published 1681, in 8vo, with this title, " The Christian Life, from its beginning to its consummation in glory, together with the several means and instruments of Christianity conducing thereunto, with directions for private devotion and forms of prayer, fitted to the several states of Christians...
Page 433 - I WILL sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever : with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
Page 104 - The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Page 400 - They bend their tongues like their bow for lies : but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth. — Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother : for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
Page 447 - Lord, all that I am, all that I have, and all that I can do.
Page 339 - In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
Page 400 - Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men ; that I might leave my people, and go from them ! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.