Contemplations Moral and Divine, etc. [With a portrait.]William Shrewsbury; Dan. Midwinter & Tho. Leigh, 1699 - 558 pages |
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... Honour and Grandure ; exceffive Eating and Drinking , Curiofity , Idleness : Thefe are the great Confumptives that do not only exhauft that time that would be with infinite infinite advantage spent in our attainment , and perfect- ing 4 ...
... Honour and Grandure ; exceffive Eating and Drinking , Curiofity , Idleness : Thefe are the great Confumptives that do not only exhauft that time that would be with infinite infinite advantage spent in our attainment , and perfect- ing 4 ...
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... honour and reverence , and be careful to obferve and pleafe whatsoever we thus love ; the intrinfick Nature of that which we love for its own Worth and Perfection , binds us by a kind of natural Bond or Refult to Reverence and Honour ...
... honour and reverence , and be careful to obferve and pleafe whatsoever we thus love ; the intrinfick Nature of that which we love for its own Worth and Perfection , binds us by a kind of natural Bond or Refult to Reverence and Honour ...
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... Honour , and Place , and Power , Infolency , Arrogancy , Envy , Covetoufnefs , and the like ; thefe , I fay , are fo many Sickneffes and Cankers , and rotten Ulcers in the Mind ; and as they , like the Furies . that were let loofe out ...
... Honour , and Place , and Power , Infolency , Arrogancy , Envy , Covetoufnefs , and the like ; thefe , I fay , are fo many Sickneffes and Cankers , and rotten Ulcers in the Mind ; and as they , like the Furies . that were let loofe out ...
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... Honour , Power , all Wifdom of Statefmen and Politi- cians in Comparison of this Wifdom , is but vain and trivial . And this is the Wildom that the Fear of God teach- eth and bringeth with it into the Soul : 1. It provides a- gainst the ...
... Honour , Power , all Wifdom of Statefmen and Politi- cians in Comparison of this Wifdom , is but vain and trivial . And this is the Wildom that the Fear of God teach- eth and bringeth with it into the Soul : 1. It provides a- gainst the ...
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... Honour , Power , Greatness , Efteem in the World ? This knowledge teacheth me Hu- mility , as knowing from whom I received it : Fidelity , as knowing to whom I muft account for it ; Watchfulness , as as knowing the Honour of my Lord is ...
... Honour , Power , Greatness , Efteem in the World ? This knowledge teacheth me Hu- mility , as knowing from whom I received it : Fidelity , as knowing to whom I muft account for it ; Watchfulness , as as knowing the Honour of my Lord is ...
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Page 439 - I am God, and there is none else ; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, " My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure...
Page 128 - But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that He by the grace of God should taste death for every man. For it became Him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
Page 375 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Page 108 - If God will be with me, and will keep me in the way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace ; then shall the Lord be my God...
Page 237 - ... then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth...
Page 98 - By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.
Page 230 - I have found, by a strict and diligent observation, that a due observation of the duty of this day hath ever had joined to it a blessing upon the rest of my time, and the week that hath been so begun hath been blessed...
Page 137 - Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground ; Yet man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward.
Page 233 - But further, there are many things that may be lawfully done on another day, which may not lawfully be done upon this ; and many things that are not only lawful upon another day, but also fit and decent, which are yet unfit to be done upon this day. Upon other days we may, and must employ ourselves, in our secular and ordinary callings ; we may use bodily exercises and recreations, as bowling, shooting, hunting, and divers other recreations; we may study...
Page 410 - Let the wicked forsake his ways, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon...