Sermons on Several Subjects and Occasions: In Two Volumes. By George Fothergill, ...at the Clarendon-Press, MDCCLXV. Sold by Daniel Prince. Also by John Rivington, London; Mess. Thurlbourn and Woodyer at Cambridge; Mr. Leake at Bath; Mr. Score at Exeter; and Mr. Hinxman at York, 1765 - 457 pages |
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... juft hinting are by no Means merely imaginary . Let us leave our Speculations , and follow Man into common Life , and we fhall foon find each of them but too fadly verified . The first Appear- ance that will offer itfelf to our View ...
... juft hinting are by no Means merely imaginary . Let us leave our Speculations , and follow Man into common Life , and we fhall foon find each of them but too fadly verified . The first Appear- ance that will offer itfelf to our View ...
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... juft Share in our Regards . None of us liveth to himself , and no Man dieth unto himself . a HONOUR , confidered as a Principle of Ac- tion , confifts in a Senfe of the Dignity of our Nature , and a Refolution at all Hazards to act up ...
... juft Share in our Regards . None of us liveth to himself , and no Man dieth unto himself . a HONOUR , confidered as a Principle of Ac- tion , confifts in a Senfe of the Dignity of our Nature , and a Refolution at all Hazards to act up ...
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... Juft , and Good . And as Revelation has furnished us with fuch Excellent Accounts of the Divine Na- ture , so has it made us , not lefs ufefully , ac- quainted with our own . That the Principles of our Compofition are at Variance with ...
... Juft , and Good . And as Revelation has furnished us with fuch Excellent Accounts of the Divine Na- ture , so has it made us , not lefs ufefully , ac- quainted with our own . That the Principles of our Compofition are at Variance with ...
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... Juft . Are Revengefulness and Litigiousness pro- ductive of any Ills to Societies ? This Wifdom which is from above is firft Pure , then Peace- able , gentle and eafy to be intreated : It banishes that Love of the World and that Pride ...
... Juft . Are Revengefulness and Litigiousness pro- ductive of any Ills to Societies ? This Wifdom which is from above is firft Pure , then Peace- able , gentle and eafy to be intreated : It banishes that Love of the World and that Pride ...
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... juft Occafion than in the Inftance fug- gested by the Words before us . To distinguish the exact Boundary between Liberty and Li- centiousness , and to fay precisely where the one ends and the other begins , requires more Discernment ...
... juft Occafion than in the Inftance fug- gested by the Words before us . To distinguish the exact Boundary between Liberty and Li- centiousness , and to fay precisely where the one ends and the other begins , requires more Discernment ...
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Page 377 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning ! If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy...
Page 326 - I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Page 296 - Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
Page 435 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Page 249 - LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? Thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
Page 208 - An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen : in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.
Page 254 - In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats ; to go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
Page 127 - There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
Page 189 - God is very greatly to be feared in the council of the saints : and to be had in reverence of all them that are round about him.
Page 103 - Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: And it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; And it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.