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... exercise of my function , since the advancing of virtue and holiness , ( which I hope you make your greatest study , ) is the peculiar business of my employment . This , therefore , is the most popular instance wherein I can vent my ...
... exercise of my function , since the advancing of virtue and holiness , ( which I hope you make your greatest study , ) is the peculiar business of my employment . This , therefore , is the most popular instance wherein I can vent my ...
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... exercises of it, frequently mistaken for the whole of religion: nay, sometimes wickedness and vice pretend to that name. I speak not now of those gross impieties wherewith the Heathens were wont to worship their gods. There are but too ...
... exercises of it, frequently mistaken for the whole of religion: nay, sometimes wickedness and vice pretend to that name. I speak not now of those gross impieties wherewith the Heathens were wont to worship their gods. There are but too ...
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... exercises are the proper emanations of the divine life, the natural employments of the new-born soul. He prays, and gives thanks, and repents, not only because these things are commanded, but rather because he is sensible of his wants ...
... exercises are the proper emanations of the divine life, the natural employments of the new-born soul. He prays, and gives thanks, and repents, not only because these things are commanded, but rather because he is sensible of his wants ...
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... exercise of his childhood , and the constant employment of his riper age . He spared no travel or pains while he was about his Father's business , but took such infinite content and satisfaction in the performance of it , that when ...
... exercise of his childhood , and the constant employment of his riper age . He spared no travel or pains while he was about his Father's business , but took such infinite content and satisfaction in the performance of it , that when ...
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... exercise, though he had not sins to confess, and but few secular interests to pray for; which, alas! are almost the only things that are wont to drive us to our devotions. Nay, we may say his whole life was a kind of prayer; a constant ...
... exercise, though he had not sins to confess, and but few secular interests to pray for; which, alas! are almost the only things that are wont to drive us to our devotions. Nay, we may say his whole life was a kind of prayer; a constant ...
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