A plain method of Christian devotion, tr. and revised [by W. Fleetwood].1730 |
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... serve as a touch - ftone , as it were , for the good Souls to try thereby the purity and progress of their Devotion . The first of thefe Effects , is a vehement defire of converfing with God , and pouring out its Sorrows and Concerns ...
... serve as a touch - ftone , as it were , for the good Souls to try thereby the purity and progress of their Devotion . The first of thefe Effects , is a vehement defire of converfing with God , and pouring out its Sorrows and Concerns ...
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... serving God : ' Tis this that maketh all things eafy to the Soul that loves . Now then as much as the love of God forwards Devotion , fo much the love of this World hinders it ; it quenches the devout Ar- dors , ftifles good Defires ...
... serving God : ' Tis this that maketh all things eafy to the Soul that loves . Now then as much as the love of God forwards Devotion , fo much the love of this World hinders it ; it quenches the devout Ar- dors , ftifles good Defires ...
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... serve the Neceffities of Nature : In a Word , I op- pose not my self to that Decree , that Man receiv'd from God , to eat his Bread in the sweat of his Brows , and labour fix Days in a Week . I only would de- fire , that Martha's ...
... serve the Neceffities of Nature : In a Word , I op- pose not my self to that Decree , that Man receiv'd from God , to eat his Bread in the sweat of his Brows , and labour fix Days in a Week . I only would de- fire , that Martha's ...
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... Served ; and confequently it would take thee but a little time , whereas thou givest it all . What blindness and what mad- nefs is it ? What will be the return of all thefe pains ? The body for which thou takeft them all , will not ...
... Served ; and confequently it would take thee but a little time , whereas thou givest it all . What blindness and what mad- nefs is it ? What will be the return of all thefe pains ? The body for which thou takeft them all , will not ...
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... serve better to the glory of our Creator : If we understood but Na- ture as well as we would understand it , it might be , we should lefs admire its Author ; fo unhappily are we form'd , that Ignorance in us begets Admiration ; it is ...
... serve better to the glory of our Creator : If we understood but Na- ture as well as we would understand it , it might be , we should lefs admire its Author ; fo unhappily are we form'd , that Ignorance in us begets Admiration ; it is ...
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Popular passages
Page 48 - For a thousand years in thy sight, are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep : in the morning they are like grass which groweth up ; in the morning it flourisheth and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down and withereth.
Page 129 - I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure : and, behold, this also is vanity.
Page 231 - My soul thirsteth for Thee, my flesh also longeth after Thee : in a barren and dry land where no water is.
Page 78 - Brethren, I count not myfelf to have apprehended ; but this one thing I do, forgetting thofe things which are behind, and reaching forth unto thofe things which are before, I prefs toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling of God in Chrift Jefus.
Page 208 - much " much goods laid up for many years ; take " thine eafe, eat, drink, and be merry.
Page 11 - Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me : thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.
Page 128 - The missionaries left Switzerland loaded with wealth ; and even flattered the pope with the agreeable anticipation that the Protestant part of Switzerland might be led back to the lap of the church. The outward peace enjoyed by the confederacy during the eighteenth century (the...
Page 324 - ... of the angels faid he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee ? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he (hall be to me a Son? And again, when he bringeth in the firit-begctten into the world, he faith, And let all the angels of God worfliip him.
Page 67 - Father; the very hairs of your head are numbered, ye are of more value than many Sparrows ; the fowls of the air have neither barns nor granaries, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
Page 231 - My foul hath a defire and longing to enter into the courts of the Lord : my heart and my flefh rejoice in the living God.