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Page 47
Inattention is perhaps a more universal cause of impiety , than high - handed and
obstinate profanity . Would you but feriously consider your ways , and lay to heart
the things that belong to your peace , I would count it a hopeful circumstance ...
Inattention is perhaps a more universal cause of impiety , than high - handed and
obstinate profanity . Would you but feriously consider your ways , and lay to heart
the things that belong to your peace , I would count it a hopeful circumstance ...
Page 179
I leave this as a matter rather of conjecture than certainty ; but observe , that if
your cause is just , - if your principles are pure , — and if your conduct is prudent ,
you ' need not fear the multitude of opposing hosts . If your cause is just - you may
...
I leave this as a matter rather of conjecture than certainty ; but observe , that if
your cause is just , - if your principles are pure , — and if your conduct is prudent ,
you ' need not fear the multitude of opposing hosts . If your cause is just - you may
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Page 191
John Witherspoon, William Shenstone Robert Dodsley. The cause is sacred , and
the champions for it ought to be holy . Nothing is more grieving to the heart of a
good man , than to hear from those who are going to the field , the horrid found of
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John Witherspoon, William Shenstone Robert Dodsley. The cause is sacred , and
the champions for it ought to be holy . Nothing is more grieving to the heart of a
good man , than to hear from those who are going to the field , the horrid found of
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... I will first endeavour to account for it , by assigning some of its probable causes
; and . then offer a few considerations ... the first and radical cause , and which
gave birth to every other , of the difaffection of some of the natives of Scotland to ...
... I will first endeavour to account for it , by assigning some of its probable causes
; and . then offer a few considerations ... the first and radical cause , and which
gave birth to every other , of the difaffection of some of the natives of Scotland to ...
Page 226
temper his authority with gentleness and lover yet I am far from thinking the effect
, just now : mentioned , is ascribed to its proper cause : it is not owing so much to
the rigour of parental authority , as to young persons getting into the fociety of ...
temper his authority with gentleness and lover yet I am far from thinking the effect
, just now : mentioned , is ascribed to its proper cause : it is not owing so much to
the rigour of parental authority , as to young persons getting into the fociety of ...
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Page 119 - Let no man deceive you with vain words : for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them : for ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light...
Page 79 - But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil : which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Page 227 - Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
Page 98 - Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy ; that they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate, laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Page 107 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 39 - Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, and brought them out, and said, " Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" And they said, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
Page 186 - Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our God : and let the LORD do that which is good in his sight.
Page 66 - I * dwell in the high and holy place, with him alfo ' that is of a contrite and humble fpirit ; to revive ' the fpirit of the humble, and to revive the heart
Page 149 - For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory...
Page 115 - The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary : he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
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| Title | The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone ... Volume 6 of Sermons, John Witherspoon Volume 6 of The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, William Shenstone |
| Authors | John Witherspoon, William Shenstone |
| Editor | Robert Dodsley |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | J. Dickson, J. Fairbairn, and J. Ogle, 1798 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Jun 2007 |
| Length | 381 pages |
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