The Works of the Learned and Reverend John Scott, D.D., Sometime Rector of St. Giles's in the Fields: I-VIClarendon Press, 1826 - Sermons, English |
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... motion , shewing that heaven includes both , but consists principally of the latter , 5. That the happiness of a man consists in the vigorous motion of his understanding and will towards suitable ob- jects , 7. and chiefly in the ...
... motion , shewing that heaven includes both , but consists principally of the latter , 5. That the happiness of a man consists in the vigorous motion of his understanding and will towards suitable ob- jects , 7. and chiefly in the ...
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... motion to good : and that as our pain and misery consist in an acute and sen- sible perception of such things as are ... motions and exercises for which they were framed ; and do freely , constantly , and without any clog or interruption ...
... motion to good : and that as our pain and misery consist in an acute and sen- sible perception of such things as are ... motions and exercises for which they were framed ; and do freely , constantly , and without any clog or interruption ...
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... motion ; and there is no motion can contribute to the happiness of any being , but what is suitable to its own nature . Now , what motion can be more suitable to the nature of a reasonable creature , than to love and adore the author of ...
... motion ; and there is no motion can contribute to the happiness of any being , but what is suitable to its own nature . Now , what motion can be more suitable to the nature of a reasonable creature , than to love and adore the author of ...
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... motion of our souls towards God shall have the vehemence of a rapture in it , without the violence . When , I say , we shall be eternally fixed in a state of such perfect freedom and activity , our happiness must needs be as large as ...
... motion of our souls towards God shall have the vehemence of a rapture in it , without the violence . When , I say , we shall be eternally fixed in a state of such perfect freedom and activity , our happiness must needs be as large as ...
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... motion of all the heavenly virtues together , in which they are every one most vigorously exerted , without the least check or impediment . This therefore being the state of heaven , as is evident from what hath been discoursed , it ...
... motion of all the heavenly virtues together , in which they are every one most vigorously exerted , without the least check or impediment . This therefore being the state of heaven , as is evident from what hath been discoursed , it ...
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Page 469 - Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Page 328 - If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind...
Page 469 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me ? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
Page 471 - Wash you, make you clean ; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes. Cease to do evil, learn to do well. Seek judgment, relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Page 259 - And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; 12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
Page 367 - For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
Page 474 - And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Page 474 - God; who will render to every man according to his deeds: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil...
Page 473 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith : these ought ye to have done, and not to leave, the other undone.
Page 234 - Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves : for they watch for your souls, as they that must give an account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief.