Sermons: Volume the third, Volume 2A. Strahan, and T. Cadell in the Strand, and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1790 - Presbyterian Church - 434 pages |
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... thought that in- numerable multitudes around him are bleft and happy . When he fees the labours of men appearing to profper , and views a country flourishing in wealth and induf- try ; when he beholds the spring coming forth in its ...
... thought that in- numerable multitudes around him are bleft and happy . When he fees the labours of men appearing to profper , and views a country flourishing in wealth and induf- try ; when he beholds the spring coming forth in its ...
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... thought were to last for ever , and on which we confidered our whole happi- ness or misery as fufpended ? We look back upon them now , as upon a dream which has paffed away . None of those mighty confequences have followed which we had ...
... thought were to last for ever , and on which we confidered our whole happi- ness or misery as fufpended ? We look back upon them now , as upon a dream which has paffed away . None of those mighty confequences have followed which we had ...
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... in returning upon the paft , and trying , in vain , to recover it when gone . - Let me advise you frequently to make the present employ- employment of time an object of thought . Ask yourselves 56 On the Improvement of Time .
... in returning upon the paft , and trying , in vain , to recover it when gone . - Let me advise you frequently to make the present employ- employment of time an object of thought . Ask yourselves 56 On the Improvement of Time .
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Volume the third Hugh Blair. employment of time an object of thought . Ask yourselves , about what are you now bufied ? What is the ultimate scope of your prefent purfuits and cares ? Can you justify them to yourselves ? Are they likely ...
Volume the third Hugh Blair. employment of time an object of thought . Ask yourselves , about what are you now bufied ? What is the ultimate scope of your prefent purfuits and cares ? Can you justify them to yourselves ? Are they likely ...
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... thoughts . This indeed is the refuge of too many ; but it is the refuge of fools , who aggravate thereby the terrors they muft encounter . For he that cometh , fhall come , and will not tarry . To his coming , let us look with a steady ...
... thoughts . This indeed is the refuge of too many ; but it is the refuge of fools , who aggravate thereby the terrors they muft encounter . For he that cometh , fhall come , and will not tarry . To his coming , let us look with a steady ...
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Page 185 - 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 399 - Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in the Lord his God : Which made heaven and earth, The sea, and all that therein is : Which keepeth truth for ever: Which executeth judgment for the oppressed : Which giveth food to the hungry.
Page 45 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage* are an hundred and thirty years...
Page 27 - ... to rejoice with them that rejoice, and to weep with them that weep...
Page 10 - The statesman, the orator or the poet, may be famous; while yet the man himself is far from being honoured. We envy his abilities. We wish to rival them.
Page 9 - The former is a loud and noisy Applause the latter a more silent and internal Homage Fame floats on, the Breath of the Multitude Honour rests on the Judgment of the Thinking Fame may give Praise while it withholds Esteem...
Page 106 - ... or envy. Moral and religious instruction derives its efficacy, not so much from what men are taught to know, as from what they are brought to feel.
Page 309 - O send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling. * Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy; and I will praise you with the harp, O God, my God.
Page 235 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun : but if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many.
Page 42 - He who pretends to great sensibility towards men, and yet has no feeling for the high objects of religion, no heart to admire and adore the great Father of the universe, has reason to distrust the truth and delicacy of his sensibility.