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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... Secondly , I obferve that the Standard where- by we are to regulate our Opinions concern-- ing our felves are thofe excellencies and per- fections which we are really indow'd with , which I collect from the latter part of the Text , ac ...
... Secondly , I obferve that the Standard where- by we are to regulate our Opinions concern-- ing our felves are thofe excellencies and per- fections which we are really indow'd with , which I collect from the latter part of the Text , ac ...
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... Secondly , That we may not go yond it . Firft , That we may proceed fo far . JJ be- It has been taught by fome of the fevere Mafters of Spiritual Mortification , That we ought to take up the most low and abject thoughts of our felves ...
... Secondly , That we may not go yond it . Firft , That we may proceed fo far . JJ be- It has been taught by fome of the fevere Mafters of Spiritual Mortification , That we ought to take up the most low and abject thoughts of our felves ...
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... Secondly , We must not go beyond it . For all beyond this is 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 ...
... Secondly , We must not go beyond it . For all beyond this is 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 ...
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... Secondly , That it betrayes us into many fins . And Thirdly , That it fruftrates all methods of Reformation . Of thefe very briefly . First an exceffive opinion of our felves ( and that is fo which furpaffes the measure of our real ...
... Secondly , That it betrayes us into many fins . And Thirdly , That it fruftrates all methods of Reformation . Of thefe very briefly . First an exceffive opinion of our felves ( and that is fo which furpaffes the measure of our real ...
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... Secondly , In relation to our Neighbour , it unqualifies us for Obedience to Civil Go- vernment . For how can he submit to the Wif dom of his Superiours , and pay an implicite deference to the Occult reafons of State , who thinks ...
... Secondly , In relation to our Neighbour , it unqualifies us for Obedience to Civil Go- vernment . For how can he submit to the Wif dom of his Superiours , and pay an implicite deference to the Occult reafons of State , who thinks ...
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Abfurdities and ill according as God action muſt adviſe affuming againſt alſo altho Apoſtle Babylon becauſe he thinks becauſe tis Befides beſt Cauſe cellencies Cenfure concerning our felves confider confiderable confifts courfe Defire derſtanding Dictate Difcourfe Divine elſe faid feem felf fhall fhould think fince Firft Firſt fome Standard fruftrates all Methods ftand fubject fuch fufficient Gnostics God has dealt Happineſs Herod highly Hypothefis ill Confequences indow'd Intellectual JOHN NORRIS juft laft place lefs length refolv'd loves himſelf Mankind Maſter Meaſure measure of Faith miſtake moſt muft natural neceffarily underſtand neceffary Neceffity never fo notwithſtanding obferve Obligation Opinions we pleaſe Paffion perveniffe pleas'd pleaſe concerning poffible prefent Preparatory Pofition proceed fo Proud queſtion real worth reaſon reflect regu rily ſelf Soul neceffarily ſubmit thefe themſelves theſe things think foberly think himſelf third and laft thoſe acts Twas Univerſity unleſs unqualifies uſe Vertue whatſoever wherein whofe whole
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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.