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... never so many myriads of ages hence ; -to do whatever I think to be my duty , and most for the good and advantage of mankind in general , - The Resolutions , as contained in the original manu- script , were seventy in number ; a part ...
... never so many myriads of ages hence ; -to do whatever I think to be my duty , and most for the good and advantage of mankind in general , - The Resolutions , as contained in the original manu- script , were seventy in number ; a part ...
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... never to DO , BE , or SUFFER any thing , in soul or body , less or more , but what tends to the glory of God . 5. Resolved , never to lose one moment of time ; but improve it in the most profit- able way I possibly can . 1 6. Resolved ...
... never to DO , BE , or SUFFER any thing , in soul or body , less or more , but what tends to the glory of God . 5. Resolved , never to lose one moment of time ; but improve it in the most profit- able way I possibly can . 1 6. Resolved ...
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... never to do any thing out of revenge . 15. Resolved , never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings . 17. Resolved , that I will live so as I shall wish I had done when I come to die . 18. Resolved , to live so at all ...
... never to do any thing out of revenge . 15. Resolved , never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings . 17. Resolved , that I will live so as I shall wish I had done when I come to die . 18. Resolved , to live so at all ...
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... never to speak any thing but the pure and simple verity . 36. Resolved , never to speak evil of any person , except some particular good call for it . 37. Resolved , to enquire every night , as I am going to bed , wherein I have been ...
... never to speak any thing but the pure and simple verity . 36. Resolved , never to speak evil of any person , except some particular good call for it . 37. Resolved , to enquire every night , as I am going to bed , wherein I have been ...
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... never to speak any thing that is ridiculous , or matter of laughter on the Lord's day . 39. Resolved , never to do any thing that I so much question the lawfulness of , as that I intend , at the same time , to con- sider and examine ...
... never to speak any thing that is ridiculous , or matter of laughter on the Lord's day . 39. Resolved , never to do any thing that I so much question the lawfulness of , as that I intend , at the same time , to con- sider and examine ...
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Page 116 - Do all things without murmurings and disputings: that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; holding forth the word of life...
Page 63 - In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: Even so Father, for so it seemed good in Thy sight.
Page 135 - For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him : But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.
Page 26 - If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
Page 106 - And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness : and the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full ; for ye have brought Us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
Page 43 - From my childhood up, my mind had been full of objections against the doctrine of God's sovereignty in choosing whom He would to eternal life, and rejecting whom He pleased, leaving them eternally to perish, and be everlastingly tormented in hell. It used to appear like a horrible doctrine to me.
Page 156 - Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God ; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence ; and take not thy Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation ; and uphold me with thy free Spirit.
Page 65 - ... horse in a retired place, as my manner commonly has been, to walk for divine contemplation and prayer, I had a view, that for me was extraordinary, of the glory of the Son of God, as Mediator between God and man, and his wonderful, great, full, pure and svve.et grace and love, and meek and gentle condescension.
Page 47 - God's excellency, his wisdom, his purity and love, seemed to appear in every thing; in the sun, moon, and stars; in the clouds and blue sky; in the grass, flowers, trees; in the water and all nature; which used greatly to fix my mind.
Page 54 - There was no part of creature holiness that I had so great a sense of its loveliness as humility, brokenness of heart and poverty of spirit; and there was nothing that I so earnestly longed for. My heart panted after this, to lie low before God, as in the dust; that I might be nothing, and that God might be ALL, that I might become as a little child.