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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... pass by us , and keep a - while in sight ; but they are presently gone from us , or we from them . They are but like objects reprefented in a Glass ; which having viewed a - while , we must shortly turn our backs , or fhut our eyes upon ...
... pass by us , and keep a - while in sight ; but they are presently gone from us , or we from them . They are but like objects reprefented in a Glass ; which having viewed a - while , we must shortly turn our backs , or fhut our eyes upon ...
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... pass away ; for the Sun is no fooner rifen with a burning heat , but it withereth the grafs , and the flower thereof falleth , and the grace of the fashion therof perifbeth ; So alfo fhall the rich man fade in his ways ; all the comfort ...
... pass away ; for the Sun is no fooner rifen with a burning heat , but it withereth the grafs , and the flower thereof falleth , and the grace of the fashion therof perifbeth ; So alfo fhall the rich man fade in his ways ; all the comfort ...
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... Pass - time ; that the fearfull fentence might prefently be pronounced : Thou fool , this night thy life fhall be required of thee , and what thou hast prepared , to whom fhall it fall ? Euripides calls riches prgfuzor xenna , a thing ...
... Pass - time ; that the fearfull fentence might prefently be pronounced : Thou fool , this night thy life fhall be required of thee , and what thou hast prepared , to whom fhall it fall ? Euripides calls riches prgfuzor xenna , a thing ...
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... pass away , and that death might speedily attack them , did not a little quash their mirth and damp their pleasure . To think , that this perhaps might be the laft Banquet they fhould taste of ; that they they should themselves fhortly ...
... pass away , and that death might speedily attack them , did not a little quash their mirth and damp their pleasure . To think , that this perhaps might be the laft Banquet they fhould taste of ; that they they should themselves fhortly ...
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... passes away ) that they leave no good fruits behind them , but do onely corrupt and enervate our minds ; war against , and hurt our fouls ; tempt us to fin , and in- volve us in guilt ; that therefore So- lomon was furely in the right ...
... passes away ) that they leave no good fruits behind them , but do onely corrupt and enervate our minds ; war against , and hurt our fouls ; tempt us to fin , and in- volve us in guilt ; that therefore So- lomon was furely in the right ...
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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!