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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 39
Page 27
... Divine Principle , The natural Life , what it is , The different Tendencies thereof , The Divine Life , wherein it consists , Religion better understood by Actions than by Words , • Divine Love exemplified in our blessed Saviour , His ...
... Divine Principle , The natural Life , what it is , The different Tendencies thereof , The Divine Life , wherein it consists , Religion better understood by Actions than by Words , • Divine Love exemplified in our blessed Saviour , His ...
Page 28
... Divine Love ,. PAGE 61 62 The Advantages of Divine Love , The Worth of the Object to be regarded , Love requires a reciprocal Return , 66 66 68 Happiness , Love requires the Object to be present , The Divine Love makes us partake of an ...
... Divine Love ,. PAGE 61 62 The Advantages of Divine Love , The Worth of the Object to be regarded , Love requires a reciprocal Return , 66 66 68 Happiness , Love requires the Object to be present , The Divine Love makes us partake of an ...
Page 29
... Divine Na- ture , to beget Divine Love in us , We must often meditate on God's Goodness and Love , 113 114 • 117 120 * To beget Charity , we must remember that all Men are nearly related unto God , 124 • That they bear His image , 125 ...
... Divine Na- ture , to beget Divine Love in us , We must often meditate on God's Goodness and Love , 113 114 • 117 120 * To beget Charity , we must remember that all Men are nearly related unto God , 124 • That they bear His image , 125 ...
Page vii
... Divine Nature, to beget Divine Love in us, . . . 117 We must often meditate on God's Goodness and Love, ........ 120 To beget Charity, we must remember that all Men are nearly related unto God, , . . 124 That they bear His image, 125 To ...
... Divine Nature, to beget Divine Love in us, . . . 117 We must often meditate on God's Goodness and Love, ........ 120 To beget Charity, we must remember that all Men are nearly related unto God, , . . 124 That they bear His image, 125 To ...
Page 36
... 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 ... divine justice , or quiet his clamor- ous conscience ; but those religious exercises are the proper emanations of the divine ...
... 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 ... divine justice , or quiet his clamor- ous conscience ; but those religious exercises are the proper emanations of the divine ...
Contents
| 31 | |
| 37 | |
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 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
able abstain advantage appetites beget behold beloved bestow bewitched blessed Jesus branch of religion capable carnal certainly charity Christ consideration converse corrupt affections COSIMO BOOKS creatures dear friend delight deportment designed desire despise devotion discern distempers divine assistance Divine grace divine love Divine nature divine perfections divine temper divine truths doth duty endeavors enjoyments eternal excellent exercise expres express eyes felicity folly frequently gion give glorious glory God's grace greatest happiness hath hearts heaven holy souls Holy Spirit humble humility inclinations infi infinite kingdom of heaven let us consider ligion live Lord loveth Majesty mean ment mercy mighty mind misery motions ness never noble ourselves passion performance person pleasure prayer prevail Psalm purity rapturous religious root Saviour sinful sion Son of God soul suffer sure sweetness temptations thee things thoughts tion trouble vanity vigor wherein wherewith wont word
Popular passages
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.