Priestcraft defended. A sermon, occasioned by the expulsion of six young gentlemen from the University of Oxford, for praying, reading and expounding the Scriptures. [Followed by] The life of Joseph1806 |
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... hath been preached ; for why ? Truly because it lays the axe to the root of the tree of priest craft , and throws down the impor- tance of the parson into the dirt . - If the clergy were all to observe the rules given by Christ to his ...
... hath been preached ; for why ? Truly because it lays the axe to the root of the tree of priest craft , and throws down the impor- tance of the parson into the dirt . - If the clergy were all to observe the rules given by Christ to his ...
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... hath given it as his charitable opinion , that this same barber can make a very good wig , from whence he lovingly con- cludes , that the said barber need not to starve ; and from whence I conclude , that he would have made a very ...
... hath given it as his charitable opinion , that this same barber can make a very good wig , from whence he lovingly con- cludes , that the said barber need not to starve ; and from whence I conclude , that he would have made a very ...
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... hath long fince been hallow'd . Should we fuffer the doctrines to which we of yore , Gave affent and confent , and folemnly swore To preach , and defend them against oppofition , We should throw ourselves wide from holy promotion ...
... hath long fince been hallow'd . Should we fuffer the doctrines to which we of yore , Gave affent and confent , and folemnly swore To preach , and defend them against oppofition , We should throw ourselves wide from holy promotion ...
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... hath in some measure spent itself . Yet not to leave the reader altogether in the dark about who and what the author is , I shall give him a negative or two . 1. He is not then a writer who cannot err , for he thinks it possible for him ...
... hath in some measure spent itself . Yet not to leave the reader altogether in the dark about who and what the author is , I shall give him a negative or two . 1. He is not then a writer who cannot err , for he thinks it possible for him ...
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... hath been with him ! that this God , may be my God , in the land of the living , and my guide and portion for ever and ever . " Thus meditating on the changes through which Providence had brought his father , and earnestly im- ploring ...
... hath been with him ! that this God , may be my God , in the land of the living , and my guide and portion for ever and ever . " Thus meditating on the changes through which Providence had brought his father , and earnestly im- ploring ...
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Page 39 - FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust ; in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ...
Page 61 - But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. All they that see me laugh me to scorn : they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
Page 56 - How many are the days of the years of thy life? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life...
Page 12 - And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
Page 52 - Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me. I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
Page 9 - Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom ; teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts unto God.
Page 83 - Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless faithful only he ; Among innumerable false unmoved. Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 14 - being cast into hell, where the worm dieth not, and where the fire is not quenched.
Page 52 - T' improve those charms, and keep them in repair, For which the spoiler thanks thee not? Foul feeder ! Coarse fare and carrion please thee full as well, And leave as keen a relish on the sense...
Page 39 - ... the wicked shall be turned into hell, with all the nations that forget God.