Sermons. Memoirs of Captain John Creichton.-v.11-15. LettersJ. Johnson, 1801 |
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... desires , and inclina- tions , which return upon him in their proper time and order , and will very hardly be laid aside to make room for any thing new and uncommon : so that call upon him when you please to set about the study of his ...
... desires , and inclina- tions , which return upon him in their proper time and order , and will very hardly be laid aside to make room for any thing new and uncommon : so that call upon him when you please to set about the study of his ...
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... desire , and consequently endeavour to have some certain principles to go upon , something fixed and unmoveable , whereon it may rest and support itself . And hence it cometh to pass , that some persons are with so much difficulty ...
... desire , and consequently endeavour to have some certain principles to go upon , something fixed and unmoveable , whereon it may rest and support itself . And hence it cometh to pass , that some persons are with so much difficulty ...
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... desire to be distinguished , or a view of interest , which produce quite different effects ; when , upon occasions set apart to return thanks to God for some public blessing , the time is employed in stirring up one part of the ...
... desire to be distinguished , or a view of interest , which produce quite different effects ; when , upon occasions set apart to return thanks to God for some public blessing , the time is employed in stirring up one part of the ...
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... desire you will consider , when any of you make use of fair and inticing words to draw in customers , whe- ther you do it for their sakes or your own . And then , for whose sakes do you think it is , that your leaders are so industrious ...
... desire you will consider , when any of you make use of fair and inticing words to draw in customers , whe- ther you do it for their sakes or your own . And then , for whose sakes do you think it is , that your leaders are so industrious ...
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... desire to introduce new doctrines and discipline in the church , or new forms of government in the state . Those wicked puritans began , in queen Elizabeth's time , to quarrel only with surplices and other habits , with the ring in ...
... desire to introduce new doctrines and discipline in the church , or new forms of government in the state . Those wicked puritans began , in queen Elizabeth's time , to quarrel only with surplices and other habits , with the ring in ...
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Page 144 - For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Page 104 - I die: * remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: * lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, "Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 86 - And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
Page 67 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall. ~] Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Page 223 - She was sickly from her childhood until about the age of fifteen ; but then grew into perfect health, and was looked upon as one of the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London, only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection.
Page 214 - GOOD manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.
Page 52 - Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness ; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens...
Page 31 - ... be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us, with meekness and fear.
Page 96 - Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil ; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment: neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
Page 85 - Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.