Contemplations Moral and Divine, etc. [With a portrait.]William Shrewsbury; Dan. Midwinter & Tho. Leigh, 1699 - 558 pages |
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... conclude fo ill ; for , for ought I know , it may be my concluding Act in this Scene of my Life . 2. It is a great motive and means to put us upon the beft best and most profitable improvement of our time . There of our Latter End . 3.
... conclude fo ill ; for , for ought I know , it may be my concluding Act in this Scene of my Life . 2. It is a great motive and means to put us upon the beft best and most profitable improvement of our time . There of our Latter End . 3.
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Matthew Hale. best and most profitable improvement of our time . There be certain civil and natural Actions of our Lives that God Almighty hath indulged and allowed to us , and indeed commanded us with moderation to ufe : as , the ...
Matthew Hale. best and most profitable improvement of our time . There be certain civil and natural Actions of our Lives that God Almighty hath indulged and allowed to us , and indeed commanded us with moderation to ufe : as , the ...
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... best knew what was the beft Rule of Wisdom , prefcribed it to Man , his best of visible Creatures , whom we have juft Reason to believe he would not deceive with a falfe or deficient Rule of Wisdom ; fince as Wisdom is the Beau- ty and ...
... best knew what was the beft Rule of Wisdom , prefcribed it to Man , his best of visible Creatures , whom we have juft Reason to believe he would not deceive with a falfe or deficient Rule of Wisdom ; fince as Wisdom is the Beau- ty and ...
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... best Wif dom of Mankind , and makes a Man truly and really a wife Man . I. Touching the firft of thefe , Fear is an Affection of the Soul that is as much diverfified as any one Affection whatfoever ; which Diverfification of the ...
... best Wif dom of Mankind , and makes a Man truly and really a wife Man . I. Touching the firft of thefe , Fear is an Affection of the Soul that is as much diverfified as any one Affection whatfoever ; which Diverfification of the ...
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... best Expedient to contain them within the bounds of Juftice , to put them in remembrance before whom , and for whom , they are to judge . And the very Heathens themselves were fome of them used to fet an empty Chair in the place of ...
... best Expedient to contain them within the bounds of Juftice , to put them in remembrance before whom , and for whom , they are to judge . And the very Heathens themselves were fome of them used to fet an empty Chair in the place of ...
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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...