Sermons. Memoirs of Captain John Creichton.-v.11-15. LettersJ. Johnson, 1801 |
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... rest , so much goeth away in sleep , so much in the proper business of our callings , that we have none to lay out upon the more serious and religious em- ployments . Every man's life is an imperfect sort of a circle , which he ...
... rest , so much goeth away in sleep , so much in the proper business of our callings , that we have none to lay out upon the more serious and religious em- ployments . Every man's life is an imperfect sort of a circle , which he ...
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... rest and support itself . And hence it cometh to pass , that some persons are with so much difficulty brought to think well of a man they have once entertained an ill opinion of : and , perhaps , that too for a very absurd and ...
... rest and support itself . And hence it cometh to pass , that some persons are with so much difficulty brought to think well of a man they have once entertained an ill opinion of : and , perhaps , that too for a very absurd and ...
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... rest of the Gospel , wherein they were more sincere than their followers among us . Thus the Christian world was divided into two parts , till at length by the zeal zeal and courage of St. Athanasius , the Arians were 20 A SERMON.
... rest of the Gospel , wherein they were more sincere than their followers among us . Thus the Christian world was divided into two parts , till at length by the zeal zeal and courage of St. Athanasius , the Arians were 20 A SERMON.
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... rest which I have already re- peated , he makes no exception , but sums up the whole with commanding " all to be subject one to another . " Whence we may conclude , that this sub- jection due from all men to all men , is something ...
... rest which I have already re- peated , he makes no exception , but sums up the whole with commanding " all to be subject one to another . " Whence we may conclude , that this sub- jection due from all men to all men , is something ...
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... rest contented in the several stations of life , wherein God hath thought fit to place us ; because it would , in the best and easiest manner , bring us back as it were to that early state of the Gospel , when Christians had all things ...
... rest contented in the several stations of life , wherein God hath thought fit to place us ; because it would , in the best and easiest manner , bring us back as it were to that early state of the Gospel , when Christians had all things ...
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Page 144 - For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Page 104 - I die: * remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: * lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, "Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 86 - And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
Page 67 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall. ~] Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Page 223 - She was sickly from her childhood until about the age of fifteen ; but then grew into perfect health, and was looked upon as one of the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London, only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection.
Page 214 - GOOD manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.
Page 52 - Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness ; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens...
Page 31 - ... be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us, with meekness and fear.
Page 96 - Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil ; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment: neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
Page 85 - Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.