The Posthumous Works of Jeremiah Seed ...: Consisting of Sermons, Letters, Essays, Etc, Volume 2M. Seed and sold, 1750 - Sermons, English |
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... Knowledge , Virtue and Goodness will con- ftitute his highest Perfection here , and ter- minate in a perfect Confummation of end- lefs Blifs and Glory : The Path of the Just is as the fining Light ; fhining more and more unto the ...
... Knowledge , Virtue and Goodness will con- ftitute his highest Perfection here , and ter- minate in a perfect Confummation of end- lefs Blifs and Glory : The Path of the Just is as the fining Light ; fhining more and more unto the ...
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... Knowledge . The View fills us with Admiration , and we are naturally led to wish , nay , to make it the Sum of our Wishes , that we could be able to traverse thofe Regions of Science , whereof some noble Genius's have made themselves ...
... Knowledge . The View fills us with Admiration , and we are naturally led to wish , nay , to make it the Sum of our Wishes , that we could be able to traverse thofe Regions of Science , whereof some noble Genius's have made themselves ...
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... Knowledge is knowing how to dis- charge rightly our Duty to God ; and therefore the Performance of that Duty must still be of higher Estimation . And in this Mankind are more upon an equal footing . The moral Powers , like the na- tural ...
... Knowledge is knowing how to dis- charge rightly our Duty to God ; and therefore the Performance of that Duty must still be of higher Estimation . And in this Mankind are more upon an equal footing . The moral Powers , like the na- tural ...
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... Knowledge may be carried fo far as to impair the intellectual Powers ; so that an immoderate Application to Study may not only create a Weariness in the Flesh , but may endanger the whole Conftitu- tion of the Mind : and in endeavouring ...
... Knowledge may be carried fo far as to impair the intellectual Powers ; so that an immoderate Application to Study may not only create a Weariness in the Flesh , but may endanger the whole Conftitu- tion of the Mind : and in endeavouring ...
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... Knowledge or Learning ; and therefore are not qualified to fill fuch Stations as al- low of the Exercise of sublime , heroic , and extenfive Virtues ; but ftill a large Field is open for their Progrefs and Improvement . They may grow ...
... Knowledge or Learning ; and therefore are not qualified to fill fuch Stations as al- low of the Exercise of sublime , heroic , and extenfive Virtues ; but ftill a large Field is open for their Progrefs and Improvement . They may grow ...
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Page 65 - 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 160 - If I climb up into heaven, thou art there: If I go down to hell, thou art there also. If I take the wings of the morning, and remain in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there also shall thy hand lead me, And thy right hand shall hold me.
Page 70 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Page 69 - And now go to ; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard : I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up, And break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down...
Page 89 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Page 1 - Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, When it is in the power of thine hand to do it. Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, And to-morrow I will give ; When thou hast it by thee.
Page 55 - Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect : but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that, for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Page 55 - Brethren, I count not myfelf to have apprehended ; but this one thing I do, forgetting thofe things which are behind, and reaching forth unto thofe things which are before, I prefs toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling of God in Chrift Jefus.
Page 51 - perfect even as our Father which is in Heaven is perfect.
Page 222 - He was of that rare affability and temper in debate, and of that seeming humility and submission of judgment, as if he brought no opinion of his own with him, but a desire of information and instruction ; yet he had so subtle a way of interrogating, and under the notion of doubts, insinuating his objections; that he infused his own opinions 'into those from whom he pretended to learn and receive them.