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... Respect , what Homage , what Adoration can be too great , when paid to fuch a Being ? Where can we find an office more agreeable to our Reason , where a better employment for our Immortality . If we confider Man as a Creature im- merft ...
... Respect , what Homage , what Adoration can be too great , when paid to fuch a Being ? Where can we find an office more agreeable to our Reason , where a better employment for our Immortality . If we confider Man as a Creature im- merft ...
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... respects highly reasonable , that we should discharge the duty of Prayer to Al- mighty God . This is fo evident , that we should scarce believe , did we not daily fee it , that a ra- tional creature could live in the grofs neg- lect and ...
... respects highly reasonable , that we should discharge the duty of Prayer to Al- mighty God . This is fo evident , that we should scarce believe , did we not daily fee it , that a ra- tional creature could live in the grofs neg- lect and ...
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... respects God is faid to be our Father . Secondly , Why we are taught in our Prayers to make use of the name of Father , rather than any other . Thirdly , Why we are inftructed to fay our , and not , my Father . H 2 Fourthly , Fourthly ...
... respects God is faid to be our Father . Secondly , Why we are taught in our Prayers to make use of the name of Father , rather than any other . Thirdly , Why we are inftructed to fay our , and not , my Father . H 2 Fourthly , Fourthly ...
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... respect of Rege- neration , no one can call God Father , who is not actually entered into the Gospel Covenant , and become a member of Jefus Christ , who hath not been sprinkled with the laver of Regeneration , and fanctified by the ...
... respect of Rege- neration , no one can call God Father , who is not actually entered into the Gospel Covenant , and become a member of Jefus Christ , who hath not been sprinkled with the laver of Regeneration , and fanctified by the ...
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... and reverence are expreffions of respect , which all good children pay to their earthly parents , and which , if they are fincere when they call God Father , they they must in a much greater degree pay to him 58 SERMON III .
... and reverence are expreffions of respect , which all good children pay to their earthly parents , and which , if they are fincere when they call God Father , they they must in a much greater degree pay to him 58 SERMON III .
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Page 91 - Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, 0 Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.
Page 104 - ... that it may please thee, of thy gracious goodness, shortly to accomplish the number of thine elect, and to hasten thy kingdom; that we, with all those that are departed in the true faith of thy holy name, may have our perfect consummation and bliss, both in body and soul, in thy eternal and everlasting glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 102 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid ; and the calf, and the young lion, and the fatling together : and a little child shall lead them.
Page 98 - O Merciful God, who hast made all men, and hatest nothing that thou hast made, nor wouldest the death of a sinner, but rather that he should be converted and live; Have mercy upon all Jews, Turks, Infidels, and Hereticks, and take from them all ignorance, hardness of heart, and contempt of thy Word...
Page 58 - Fathers, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto...
Page 181 - God is faithful, who will not suffer us to be tempted above that we are able to bear ; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that we may be able to bear it.
Page 126 - ... why then doth a living man complain, a man for the punifhment of his fins ? Laftly, let us confider the nature of the fufferings themfelves. Great part of thofe afflictions which we place to God's account, ought in good reafon to be placed to our own.
Page v - He by his great example might impart A better something, and baptize it Art ; He, all the feelings of my youth forgot, Might shew me what is taste by what is not ; By him supported with a proper pride, I...
Page 74 - PRAISE the Lord, O my foul : and all that is within me praife his holy Name.
Page 156 - not resist evil," but causes us rather, when smitten " on the right cheek, to turn the other also;" — of that mercifulness, whereby we "love our enemies, bless them that curse us, do good to them that hate us, and pray for them which despitefully use us and persecute us ;" — and of that complication of love and all holy tempers, which is exercised in suffering for righteousness