Discourses on several important subjects. To which are added, 8 sermons preached at the lady Moyer's lecture, in the cathedral church of st. Paul, London, Volume 21747 |
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... Pleasure has often the Afcendant , in the Middle of our Age Am- bition ; and Avarice brings up the Rear at the Clofe of Life . But this Vice , of which I am speaking , attends too many of us from the Cradle to the Grave : we being ...
... Pleasure has often the Afcendant , in the Middle of our Age Am- bition ; and Avarice brings up the Rear at the Clofe of Life . But this Vice , of which I am speaking , attends too many of us from the Cradle to the Grave : we being ...
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... Pleasures , and to do benevolent Offices . And if it be true Wisdom to think that early , which we must think at laft ; let us now be convinced , which we shall certain- ly be hereafter , that there is nothing truly valuable , noble and ...
... Pleasures , and to do benevolent Offices . And if it be true Wisdom to think that early , which we must think at laft ; let us now be convinced , which we shall certain- ly be hereafter , that there is nothing truly valuable , noble and ...
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... Pleasure in difcourfing upon Oeconomy , or any other Subject , up- on which he can display a beautiful Fancy ; but to look carefully into his Affairs , to balance his Accounts , and to proportion his Expences to his Income , is a ...
... Pleasure in difcourfing upon Oeconomy , or any other Subject , up- on which he can display a beautiful Fancy ; but to look carefully into his Affairs , to balance his Accounts , and to proportion his Expences to his Income , is a ...
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... Pleasure , From whom I have the Ability to please ! " cr How vain and uncertain all Things are here below , appears from this , that we hold even Reason itself , that ennobling Quality , that boafted Prerogative , and di- ftinguishing ...
... Pleasure , From whom I have the Ability to please ! " cr How vain and uncertain all Things are here below , appears from this , that we hold even Reason itself , that ennobling Quality , that boafted Prerogative , and di- ftinguishing ...
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... Pleasure and Pain ? And is this the great End which we have in View ? Suppofing we could compass it ; yet if it be better not to be at all , than to be mi- ferable ; then certainly just not to be mi- ferable , without any pofitive ...
... Pleasure and Pain ? And is this the great End which we have in View ? Suppofing we could compass it ; yet if it be better not to be at all , than to be mi- ferable ; then certainly just not to be mi- ferable , without any pofitive ...
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abfolute Abfurdities againſt almoſt anſwer Apoſtles becauſe Befides bleffed Cafe Cauſe Chrift Chriftianity Confequence confider Confideration confiftent Courfe Courſe Creatures deceived defigned Defire Deity diftinct divine Doctrine eternal evil Exiſtence faid falfe Falfhood fame feem felves feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firft firſt fome ftand fuch fuffer fufficient fuperior fuppofe fure Glory God's Goodneſs Happineſs Heart Heaven himſelf impoffible infinite Inftance Intereft Irenæus itſelf juft juſt laft leaſt lefs Love Mankind Meaſure ment Mifery Mind Miracles moft moral moſt muft muſt Nation Nature neceffary nefs never Number obferve Occafion ourſelves Paffions Perfon Pleaſure Power prefent prove Puniſhment Reaſon Religion Saviour Scripture Senfe Senſe SERM SERM.III SERM.IV SERM.VI ſeveral ſhall Sinners Soul ſpeak Spirit ſtrong thefe themſelves theſe Things thofe thoſe thou Thoughts thouſand tion Truth ture uncon Underſtanding univerfal Vice Virtue whofe whole Wiſdom worfe World Worſhip
Popular passages
Page 6 - That to whom much is given, of him much will be required.
Page 345 - 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 177 - But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, And my Lord hath forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child, That she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, Yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands ; Thy walls are continually before me.
Page 346 - Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces : neither could any man tame him. 5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
Page 332 - Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him...
Page 191 - Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive the things that God hath prepared for them that love him ;" and the eternal Father, who dwelleth in light unapproachable, no man hath seen or can see.
Page 121 - And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep. 32 And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.
Page 144 - For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.
Page 175 - Yea, the darkness is no darkness with Thee, but the night is as clear as the day : the darkness and light to Thee are both alike.