A plain method of Christian devotion, tr. and revised [by W. Fleetwood].1730 |
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Page 11
... tastes in hoping for new Honours , or the Volup- tuous finds in his Exceffes and Debauches , are dull infipid Pleasures in comparison of those a Soul truly devout finds in her communicating with God , It is a Sea where all the Troubles ...
... tastes in hoping for new Honours , or the Volup- tuous finds in his Exceffes and Debauches , are dull infipid Pleasures in comparison of those a Soul truly devout finds in her communicating with God , It is a Sea where all the Troubles ...
Page 68
... taste , is a mortal Enemy to Devotion . Spiritual Pleafures are of fo different a relish from thofe of the Flesh , that one cannot at the fame time love the one and the other . A Palate used to Gall and Worm- wood , and that tafts no ...
... taste , is a mortal Enemy to Devotion . Spiritual Pleafures are of fo different a relish from thofe of the Flesh , that one cannot at the fame time love the one and the other . A Palate used to Gall and Worm- wood , and that tafts no ...
Page 111
... taste of Pleasures in the frequent use of them , and when once they have loft the Grace of Novelty , they have loft their Value . This Beg- gar yesterday thought himself bleft with a little Sum , but to Day he has found a great one ...
... taste of Pleasures in the frequent use of them , and when once they have loft the Grace of Novelty , they have loft their Value . This Beg- gar yesterday thought himself bleft with a little Sum , but to Day he has found a great one ...
Page 125
... his Joys and Com-- forts through it . Sin hath fo infeebled this Union of the Soul with God , that it no longer tastes these Pleasures . Your and you . fins have made a feparation betwixt God fins Ch . I. of Chriftian Devotion . 125.
... his Joys and Com-- forts through it . Sin hath fo infeebled this Union of the Soul with God , that it no longer tastes these Pleasures . Your and you . fins have made a feparation betwixt God fins Ch . I. of Chriftian Devotion . 125.
Page 171
... the World , that make their Vertue confift in the priva- tion of these neceffary pleasures , and fay , Give me the grace , O God , to taste Q2 . 3 по no pleasure in the use of the things of this Ch . III . of Chriftian Devotion . 171.
... the World , that make their Vertue confift in the priva- tion of these neceffary pleasures , and fay , Give me the grace , O God , to taste Q2 . 3 по no pleasure in the use of the things of this Ch . III . of Chriftian Devotion . 171.
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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.