The Young Man's Sunday Book: A Practical Exhibition of Doctrines, Duties, and Principles, Adapted to Improve the Taste, to Excite the Reflection, and to Promote the Piety, Usefulness, and Happiness, of the Young |
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... doth any thing unadvisedly , but ac- cording to the counsel , which is always rational , though our shallow reason in this state of dege- neracy and mortality be not able to fathom the depth of its contrivements , and thereupon cavil at ...
... doth any thing unadvisedly , but ac- cording to the counsel , which is always rational , though our shallow reason in this state of dege- neracy and mortality be not able to fathom the depth of its contrivements , and thereupon cavil at ...
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... doth St. Paul teach us : " Whom God ( saith he ) hath set forth a propitiation , by faith in his blood , for a demon- stration of his righteousness . " That is , as I take it , of his goodness , his justice , his fidelity , his ...
... doth St. Paul teach us : " Whom God ( saith he ) hath set forth a propitiation , by faith in his blood , for a demon- stration of his righteousness . " That is , as I take it , of his goodness , his justice , his fidelity , his ...
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... doth by little and little deface the rever- ence of religion . And , lastly , learned times , es- pecially with peace and prosperity ; for troubles and adversities do more bow men's minds to re- ligion . They that deny a God destroy ...
... doth by little and little deface the rever- ence of religion . And , lastly , learned times , es- pecially with peace and prosperity ; for troubles and adversities do more bow men's minds to re- ligion . They that deny a God destroy ...
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... doth prove us mur- derers before him : If we had never opened our mouth to utter any scandalous , offensive , or hurt- ful word , the cry of our secret cogitations is heard in the ear of God : If we did not commit the sins which daily ...
... doth prove us mur- derers before him : If we had never opened our mouth to utter any scandalous , offensive , or hurt- ful word , the cry of our secret cogitations is heard in the ear of God : If we did not commit the sins which daily ...
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... doth not to the world . When he manifests his authority in the command , it is then power- ful ; when he manifests his goodness and truth in the promise , it is full of sweetness ; when he manifests his wrath in the threatening , it ...
... doth not to the world . When he manifests his authority in the command , it is then power- ful ; when he manifests his goodness and truth in the promise , it is full of sweetness ; when he manifests his wrath in the threatening , it ...
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Page 186 - But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and, at first, it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and, at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion...
Page 199 - There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory.
Page 212 - Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Page 190 - The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord.
Page 150 - If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, that man's religion is vain.
Page 44 - For take an example of a dog, and mark what a generosity and courage he will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God, or melior natura, which courage is manifestly such as that creature, without that confidence, of a better nature than his own could never attain. So man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favor, gathereth a force and faith which human nature in itself could not obtain.
Page 212 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Page 205 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason; and his sabbath work, ever since, is the illumination of his Spirit.
Page 205 - The poet that beautified the sect that was otherwise inferior to the rest saith yet excellently well: "It 20 is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth...
Page 60 - The fairest productions of human wit, after a few perusals, like gathered flowers, wither in our hands, and lose their fragrancy ; but these unfading plants of paradise become, as we are accustomed to them, still more and more beautiful; their bloom appears to be daily heightened ; fresh odours are emitted, and new sweets extracted from them. He who hath once tasted their excellencies, will desire to taste them yet again ; and he who tastes them oftenest, will relish them best.