The Great Law of Consideration ; Or, A Discourse, Wherein the Nature, Usefulness, and Absolute Necessity of Consideration, in Order to a Truly Serious and Religious Life, is Laid Open |
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... defire , or endeavour to be fatisfied about it ? Did they ever do , what every Rational Man ought to do , that is ... defires to know the Truth of it , enquires , What Solidity there is in it ; whether any wife Men were ever of that ...
... defire , or endeavour to be fatisfied about it ? Did they ever do , what every Rational Man ought to do , that is ... defires to know the Truth of it , enquires , What Solidity there is in it ; whether any wife Men were ever of that ...
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... defires after Immortality , their fecret actings without the help of a Body , their hopes of Heaven , their fears of Hell , their capacity of feeing Things to come , their ability to live above , their fublime Nature , their acting like ...
... defires after Immortality , their fecret actings without the help of a Body , their hopes of Heaven , their fears of Hell , their capacity of feeing Things to come , their ability to live above , their fublime Nature , their acting like ...
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... defire of all Nations comes , and He that commands all the Powers of Light and Darkness , appears in a Pulpit . He , by whom the Worlds were made , leaves the bright- nefs of his Father's Glory , to tell men , what a Monster Sin is ...
... defire of all Nations comes , and He that commands all the Powers of Light and Darkness , appears in a Pulpit . He , by whom the Worlds were made , leaves the bright- nefs of his Father's Glory , to tell men , what a Monster Sin is ...
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... de- fires and longings after their Holiness , with his own death ; and after his Death , being rifen again , fend ... Defires in Men's Ears to the World's End ; this indeed is a condefcenfion which the great miniftring Spirits in ...
... de- fires and longings after their Holiness , with his own death ; and after his Death , being rifen again , fend ... Defires in Men's Ears to the World's End ; this indeed is a condefcenfion which the great miniftring Spirits in ...
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... Defires and Affe- ctions , that I think it but Time and Labour loft to bethink my self how to be master of any of them . Why should I flatter and deceive my felf ? Why fhould I footh my felf into kind Thoughts of my condition , that is ...
... Defires and Affe- ctions , that I think it but Time and Labour loft to bethink my self how to be master of any of them . Why should I flatter and deceive my felf ? Why fhould I footh my felf into kind Thoughts of my condition , that is ...
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Page 331 - In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. His going forth Is from the end of the heaven and his circuit unto the ends of It: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Page 9 - Jesus : who, being in the form of God, thought it no robbery to be equal with God : but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men : and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Page 44 - Lift up your heads, 0 ye gates: and be ye lift up ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
Page 39 - God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Page 12 - For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews ; to them that are under the law...
Page 7 - And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together; the floods stood upright as an heap and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
Page 424 - Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves; For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him? And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.
Page 56 - Thou shalt make room enough under me for to go, that my footsteps shall not slide. 37 I will follow upon mine enemies, and overtake them; neither will I turn again till I have destroyed them.
Page 115 - And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon.
Page 236 - Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.