Entertainments for Lent, tr. by sir. B. Brook1755 |
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... worldly vanities . There is no better way to abate and humble the proudeft of all creatures , than to reprefent his beginning and end . The middle part of our life , like a kind of Proteus , takes upon it feveral fhapes not understood ...
... worldly vanities . There is no better way to abate and humble the proudeft of all creatures , than to reprefent his beginning and end . The middle part of our life , like a kind of Proteus , takes upon it feveral fhapes not understood ...
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... worldly vanities . There is no better way to abate and humble the proudeft of all creatures , than to reprefent his beginning and end . The middle part of our life , like a kind of Proteus , takes upon it feveral shapes not understood ...
... worldly vanities . There is no better way to abate and humble the proudeft of all creatures , than to reprefent his beginning and end . The middle part of our life , like a kind of Proteus , takes upon it feveral shapes not understood ...
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... worldly affairs , than to deal with the devil , or to caft nativities . All these things fill men with more faults than knowledge . For divine oracles have more need to be reverenced than interpreted . He that will find God must seek ...
... worldly affairs , than to deal with the devil , or to caft nativities . All these things fill men with more faults than knowledge . For divine oracles have more need to be reverenced than interpreted . He that will find God must seek ...
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... worldly ambition , above their own life . They fuck the head of a venomous afp , and are killed by the tongue of a viper . They will not part with that which kills them ; and if you take from them the worm which makes them itch , or the ...
... worldly ambition , above their own life . They fuck the head of a venomous afp , and are killed by the tongue of a viper . They will not part with that which kills them ; and if you take from them the worm which makes them itch , or the ...
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... worldly jewels are like the empty imaginations of a fick fpirit , not enlightened by the beams of truth . Let us rely upon the word ( faith St. Auguftine ) which remains for ever , while men pass like the water of a fountain , which ...
... worldly jewels are like the empty imaginations of a fick fpirit , not enlightened by the beams of truth . Let us rely upon the word ( faith St. Auguftine ) which remains for ever , while men pass like the water of a fountain , which ...
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Page 77 - And if he will not hear them, tell the church. And if he will not hear the church, let him be to thee as the heathen and the publican.
Page 63 - And he said unto him, Thy brother is come ; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.
Page 14 - And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.
Page 31 - The impotent man answered him 'Sir, I have no man when the water is troubled to put me into the pool; but while I am coming another steppeth down before me.' Jesus saith unto him 'Rise, take up thy bed and walk.
Page 225 - We have seen the Lord. But he said to them: Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the place of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.
Page 165 - And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written, Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.
Page 118 - From the beginning of the world it hath not been heard, that any man hath opened the eyes of one born blind. Unless this man were of God, He could not do anything.
Page 135 - I say truth, why do ye not believe me ? He that is of God heareth the words of God : for this cause ye hear them not, because ye are not of God.
Page 216 - And he went in to tarry with them. And it came to pass as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him ; and he vanished out of their sight.
Page 44 - For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens, and lay them on men's shoulders ; but with a finger of their own they will not move them.