A Sermon Preach'd Before the University of Oxford at St. Peters Church in the East on Mid-Lent Sunday, March 29, 1685Leonard Lichfield, 1685 - 28 pages |
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... Pride , but only when there is more of Opinion than there is of Worth . ' Twas this that was the Condem- nation of the Apoftate Angel , not that he took a juft complacency in the eminency of his Station , but that he vainly arrogated to ...
... Pride , but only when there is more of Opinion than there is of Worth . ' Twas this that was the Condem- nation of the Apoftate Angel , not that he took a juft complacency in the eminency of his Station , but that he vainly arrogated to ...
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... Pride . Pride , that turn'd the Angels out of Heaven , Adam out of Paradice , and levell'd the great King of Babylon with the Beasts that perifhands which is nothing elfe but an Intemperate Opinion of our felves , which confifts either ...
... Pride . Pride , that turn'd the Angels out of Heaven , Adam out of Paradice , and levell'd the great King of Babylon with the Beasts that perifhands which is nothing elfe but an Intemperate Opinion of our felves , which confifts either ...
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... Pride then is alto- gether inconfiftent with that Subjection , Honour and Veneration which we owe to God . For how can he fubmit his paffions to the Autho- -rity of the Divine Will who has made a Law of his own ? And as it indifpofes us ...
... Pride then is alto- gether inconfiftent with that Subjection , Honour and Veneration which we owe to God . For how can he fubmit his paffions to the Autho- -rity of the Divine Will who has made a Law of his own ? And as it indifpofes us ...
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... Pride was ever obferved to be the Mother of Facti- on and Rebellion , and accordingly St. Jude makes it part of the Character of the Proud Gnoftics , To defpife Dominions and Speak evil of Dignities . Again , It unqualifies us for those ...
... Pride was ever obferved to be the Mother of Facti- on and Rebellion , and accordingly St. Jude makes it part of the Character of the Proud Gnoftics , To defpife Dominions and Speak evil of Dignities . Again , It unqualifies us for those ...
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Page 5 - For I fay, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think, of himfelf more highly than he ought to think, but to think foberly, according as God hath dealt to .every man the meafure of Faith.
Page 17 - What man knoweth the thinges of a man if not the spirit of man which [is] in himself.