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... Happiness is neither capable of En- crease by our Praifes and Approbation , nor of being leffened by our Murmuring and Difguft : Though his own Choice , is a fufficient Authority and Satisfaction to himself : Yet in his Proceedings with ...
... Happiness is neither capable of En- crease by our Praifes and Approbation , nor of being leffened by our Murmuring and Difguft : Though his own Choice , is a fufficient Authority and Satisfaction to himself : Yet in his Proceedings with ...
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... Happiness . So on the contrary , those who are mean and narrow - spirited , proud and spightful , cruel and implacable , who have defaced all the noble Impreffions of Goodness they were created with : Thefe , as the Pfal- mift obferves ...
... Happiness . So on the contrary , those who are mean and narrow - spirited , proud and spightful , cruel and implacable , who have defaced all the noble Impreffions of Goodness they were created with : Thefe , as the Pfal- mift obferves ...
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... Happiness ; nor appear with fuch a noble Air of Gravity and Greatness among Perfons of the highest Condition . And as the World had no Reason to imagine this , fo neither could they say he talk'd for himself , or aim'd at any secular ...
... Happiness ; nor appear with fuch a noble Air of Gravity and Greatness among Perfons of the highest Condition . And as the World had no Reason to imagine this , fo neither could they say he talk'd for himself , or aim'd at any secular ...
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... Happiness . This Religion is in- tended to give us the fulleft Conviction that a Mans Life does not confift in the Abundance of thofe Things which he pof feffes , that the Value of these Honours and Advancements , which are fo eagerly ...
... Happiness . This Religion is in- tended to give us the fulleft Conviction that a Mans Life does not confift in the Abundance of thofe Things which he pof feffes , that the Value of these Honours and Advancements , which are fo eagerly ...
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... the future : For thofe who depend upon a foreign Affiftance for their Prefervation and Happiness , as all Creatures do ; thofe , if they have no ftronger Support than themselves , can't H 3 if ΙΟΙ Be careful for nothing.
... the future : For thofe who depend upon a foreign Affiftance for their Prefervation and Happiness , as all Creatures do ; thofe , if they have no ftronger Support than themselves , can't H 3 if ΙΟΙ Be careful for nothing.
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Affiftance Affurance againſt almoſt anfwer Angels Anger Apoſtle Arians becauſe befides beſt bleffed Cafe Cauſe Chriftians Circumſtances Command Condition confequently confider confiderable Dæmons defire Deſign Difpofition Diſcontent divine fafe faid fame farther fecond fecure feems felf felves fenfible ferve fhall fhew fhort fhould fince fion firft firſt fome fomething fometimes fpeaks ftand ftrong fuch fuffer fufficient fuppofe fupport fupreme fure give greateſt Greatneſs Happineſs Heathen Heaven himſelf Holy Ghoft Honour impoffible Inclinations Intereft Jews juft Juftice juſt Laws leaſt lefs Meaſure Mind moft moſt muft muſt Nature neceffary Neceffities nefs Neighbours obferve Occafion otherwife ourſelves Paffion Perfons pleaſe Pleaſure poffibly Power pray prefent publick Puniſhment Purpoſe raiſe Reaſon Refolution Refpect Religion Saints Saviour Scripture ſeems Senfe ſhall ſpeak Spirits ſtand Temper thefe themſelves ther theſe Things thofe thoſe tion Underſtanding uneafy unlawful unreaſonable Uſe Virtue worfe World Worſhip
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Page 409 - Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God : for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man : but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Page 12 - I faw the dead, fmall and great, ftand before GOD ; and the books were opened : and another book was opened, which is the book of life : and the dead were judged out of thofe things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Page 269 - Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind...
Page 95 - I may be mighty through thee to pull down the strong holds of sin, to cast down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and to bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.
Page 55 - Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Page 409 - Let no Man fay when he is tempted, I am tempted of God, for God cannot be tempted with Evil, neither tempteth he any Man., but every Man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own Lufi, and enticed.
Page 336 - THERE is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men : A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
Page 253 - As concerning, therefore, the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one. For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or earth (as there be gods many and lords many), but to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him : And one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
Page 160 - A thousand shall fall beside thee, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.