The Life of God in the Soul of ManCosimo, Inc., 2007 M06 1 - 116 pages With The Methods Of Attaining The Happiness Which It Proposes. Also An Account Of The Beginnings And Advances Of A Spiritual Life. |
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... Delight it affords , The Excellency of Humility , The Pleasure and Sweetness of a humble Temper , A Prayer , . $ 223 བཟུབ 74 76 77 78 79 80 83 PART III . Despondent Thoughts which may arise in such as are awakened to a Sense of Religion ...
... Delight it affords , The Excellency of Humility , The Pleasure and Sweetness of a humble Temper , A Prayer , . $ 223 བཟུབ 74 76 77 78 79 80 83 PART III . Despondent Thoughts which may arise in such as are awakened to a Sense of Religion ...
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... delight in the performance of it . The love which a pious man bears to God and goodness , is not so much by virtue of a command enjoin- ing him so to do , as by a new nature instructing and prompting him to it , nor doth he pay his ...
... delight in the performance of it . The love which a pious man bears to God and goodness , is not so much by virtue of a command enjoin- ing him so to do , as by a new nature instructing and prompting him to it , nor doth he pay his ...
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... delight to hear and compose excellent discourses about the matters of religion ; for eloquence is very pleasant whatever be the subject . Nay , some it may dispose to no small height of sensible devotion . The glorious things that are ...
... delight to hear and compose excellent discourses about the matters of religion ; for eloquence is very pleasant whatever be the subject . Nay , some it may dispose to no small height of sensible devotion . The glorious things that are ...
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... pleasures and delights of sense or fancy which are sinful in themselves , or tend to ex- tinguish or lessen our relish of more divine and intellectual pleasures , which doth also infer a resolutenesss to IN THE SOUL OF MAN . 47.
... pleasures and delights of sense or fancy which are sinful in themselves , or tend to ex- tinguish or lessen our relish of more divine and intellectual pleasures , which doth also infer a resolutenesss to IN THE SOUL OF MAN . 47.
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Contents
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The Excellency and Advantage of Religion | 61 |
Happiness | 69 |
The Pleasure that attends | 76 |
A Prayer | 83 |
We must use our utmost Endeavors and then | 92 |
We must consider the Evils of Sin and resist | 98 |
We must often examine our Actions | 104 |
We must conscientiously perform the outward | 114 |
To beget Purity we must consider the Dignity | 127 |
Religion is advanced by the same means with | 133 |
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Page 57 - Christ immediately puts his friendship to the proof, by telling him, that the foxes had holes, and the birds of the air had nests, but the Son of Man had not where to lay his head.
Page 89 - The eternal God is our refuge *, and underneath are the everlasting arms.
Page 137 - I will also save you from all your uncleannesses,' xxxvi, 25, 29. No promise can be more clear. And to this the apostle plainly refers in that exhortation : ' Having these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God,
Page 91 - The path of the just is as the shining light which shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Page 106 - ... amiss, and make the shipwrecks of one day be as marks to direct our course in another. This may be called the very art of virtuous living, and would contribute wonderfully to advance our reformation, and preserve our innocence.
Page 47 - ... universal and unbounded affection, and in the mastery over our natural inclinations, that they may never be able to betray us to those things -which we know to be blameable. The root of the divine life is Faith ; the chief branches are love to God, charity to man, purity and humility...
Page 136 - Possess our hearts with a generous and holy disdain of all those poor enjoyments which this world holdeth out to allure us, that they may never be able to inveigle our affections, or betray us to any sin : turn away our eyes from beholding vanity, and quicken thou us in thy law.
Page 137 - Finally, O God. grant that the consideration of what thou art, and what we ourselves are, may both humble and lay us low before thee, and also stir up in us the strongest and most ardent aspirations towards thee.