| Richard Hele - Devotional literature - 1825 - 598 pages
...the good offices in my power to any of my fellow-creatures. Finally, O Lord, I most humbly beg that whatsoever things are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, and of good report, I may think on these things, and that they may abound in me every day more and more : that I maybe... | |
| James Montgomery - Hymns - 1825 - 482 pages
...embellishment, is most freely admitted; but that verse, as well as prose, may be advantageously associated with whatsoever things are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, and of good report, in religion, we have the evidence of the Scriptures themselves, " in the law of Moses, and in the Prophets,... | |
| 1847 - 660 pages
...especially given to "the disciple whom Jesus loved," to dwell upon the source and fountain Head, whence, " whatsoever things are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, and of good report (Phil. iv. 8), must all proceed. He shows that the love of God shed abroad in the heart, 18 the actuating... | |
| James Montgomery - Christian poetry, English - 1826 - 464 pages
...embellishment, is most freely admitted; but that verse, us well as prose, may be advantageously nssociated with whatsoever things are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, and of good report, in religion, we lere the evidence of the Scriptures themselves, " in the law of Moses, and in the Prophets,... | |
| John Kendall - Christian life - 1826 - 406 pages
...men should make each other miserable without cause; if wisdom consists in choosing and adhering to whatsoever things are true, honest, just, pure, lovely and of good report — things that make our present enjoyments easy, the remembrance of what is past, comfortable, and... | |
| 1826 - 938 pages
...ends in view and design than the benefit of the individual who stands out as a bright example of " whatsoever things are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, and of good report." His grace upholding that one person, may be considered as a part of his government of the world, and... | |
| Hannah More - English literature - 1827 - 598 pages
...which will scarcely bear a comparison but with his own catalogue of virtues in a kindred Epistle : ' Whatsoever things are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, and of good report ; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.' So far from seeking to... | |
| Thomas Shaw B. Reade - 1827 - 484 pages
...and glory. " Thy word," saith David, " have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against thee." " Whatsoever things are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, and of good report, if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, we must think on these things." We must carefully... | |
| English essays - 1828 - 714 pages
...generosity. It is the regulation of our desires, the government of our pasisons, the harmonious union of whatsoever things are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, and of good report, virtuous and praiseworthy. It myic, nv ii i" 111 . i.iiiijic pleasure* report, virtuous and praiseworthy.... | |
| Anglican Communion - 1845 - 378 pages
...feeble parish still more enfeebled by strife and contention ! — and how painfully inconsistent with whatsoever things are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, and of good report, is a disposition to take offence and to assume a cold and distant aspect, because it is supposed one... | |
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