Practical Discourses Upon the Consideration of Our Latter End: And the Danger and Mischief of Delaying Repentance. By Isaac Barrow, ...Brab. Aylmer; and sold, 1712 - 176 pages |
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... lives determi- nate measure is not a fit matter of Prayer to God ; that being a secret referved by God to himself , which to inquire into favours of prefump- tuous curiofity ; the univerfal vali- dity of which reafon I will not de- bate ...
... lives determi- nate measure is not a fit matter of Prayer to God ; that being a secret referved by God to himself , which to inquire into favours of prefump- tuous curiofity ; the univerfal vali- dity of which reafon I will not de- bate ...
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... lives certain and neceffary brevity and frailty , is a mean proper and apt to difpofe us toward the wife conduct of our remaining life ; to which purpose fuch a confideration feems alike available , as the know- ledge of its punctual or ...
... lives certain and neceffary brevity and frailty , is a mean proper and apt to difpofe us toward the wife conduct of our remaining life ; to which purpose fuch a confideration feems alike available , as the know- ledge of its punctual or ...
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... lives durance whence we may be induced to un- derstand , regard , and chufe thofe things which good reafon dictates best for us ; which according to true Wisdom , it most concerns us to know and perform . From which fense of the words ...
... lives durance whence we may be induced to un- derstand , regard , and chufe thofe things which good reafon dictates best for us ; which according to true Wisdom , it most concerns us to know and perform . From which fense of the words ...
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... live as fuch ; renouncing all fober care becoming men , and drowning their reafon in brutish fenfualities ; yet no queftion , the very fame reflexion , that this life would foon pass away , and that death might speedily attack them ...
... live as fuch ; renouncing all fober care becoming men , and drowning their reafon in brutish fenfualities ; yet no queftion , the very fame reflexion , that this life would foon pass away , and that death might speedily attack them ...
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... live well ; not to be lazy and loitering in the dispatch of our onely confi- derable business , relating to eterni- ty ; to embrace all opportunities , and improve all means ; and fol- low the best compendiums of good practice leading ...
... live well ; not to be lazy and loitering in the dispatch of our onely confi- derable business , relating to eterni- ty ; to embrace all opportunities , and improve all means ; and fol- low the best compendiums of good practice leading ...
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Page 4 - LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am.
Page 51 - ALMIGHTY God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, (in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility...
Page 52 - ... may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which Thy SON JESUS CHRIST came to visit us in great humility ; that in the last day, when He shall come again in His glorious Majesty to judge both the quick and dead, we may rise to the life immortal, through Him Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the HOLY GHOST, now and ever. Amen.
Page 82 - we look not at the things which are feen, but at the things which are not feen; for the things which are feen, are temporal ; but the things which are not feen, are eternal, 2 Cor.
Page 158 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Page 40 - REASONING WITH THEMSELVES, BUT not aright, Our life is short and tedious, and in the death of a man there is no remedy: neither was there any man known to have returned from the grave. For we are born at all adventure: and we shall be hereafter as though we had never been: for the breath in our nostrils is as smoke, and a little spark in the moving of our heart: which being extinguished, our body shall be turned into ashes, and our spirit shall vanish as the soft air...
Page 71 - For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away : but the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
Page 19 - Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: To be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Page 90 - Take heed to yourfelves, left at any time your hearts be over-charged with furfeiting, and drunkennefs, and the cares of this life ; — and fo that day come upon you unawares; — for as a fnare mail it come upon all that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
Page 41 - O DEATH, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liveth at rest in his possessions, Unto the man that hath nothing to vex him, and that hath prosperity in all things: Yea, unto him that is yet able to receive meat!