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... Designs , which fo much take up our Thoughts . I doubt not in the leaft , but that lefs Labour , lefs Trouble , lefs Sollicitude , will serve to make a Man a good Chriftian , than to get an Estate , or to attain a competent Skill in ...
... Designs , which fo much take up our Thoughts . I doubt not in the leaft , but that lefs Labour , lefs Trouble , lefs Sollicitude , will serve to make a Man a good Chriftian , than to get an Estate , or to attain a competent Skill in ...
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... Designs in this World . We think Religion good for no- thing but to spoil good Company ; to make us melancholy and mopifh ; to diftract us in our Business and Employments ; and to put fo many Reftraints upon us , that we can neither ...
... Designs in this World . We think Religion good for no- thing but to spoil good Company ; to make us melancholy and mopifh ; to diftract us in our Business and Employments ; and to put fo many Reftraints upon us , that we can neither ...
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... Designs upon him , he fhall be able to over - reach him . What a World of Advan- tages doth the angry Man give to him he deals with , by the Haftiness and Impatience of his Spirit ? How often doth a Man do that in the Fury and ...
... Designs upon him , he fhall be able to over - reach him . What a World of Advan- tages doth the angry Man give to him he deals with , by the Haftiness and Impatience of his Spirit ? How often doth a Man do that in the Fury and ...
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... Designs , and whilst he thinks to enjoy a greater fhare of Pleasures than other Men , really enjoys a lefs ; for his Diffolutenefs , and giving up the Reins to his Appetites , only ferves to dull and ftu- pify them . Nor doth he reap ...
... Designs , and whilst he thinks to enjoy a greater fhare of Pleasures than other Men , really enjoys a lefs ; for his Diffolutenefs , and giving up the Reins to his Appetites , only ferves to dull and ftu- pify them . Nor doth he reap ...
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... Design that is propofed to us . In all these Things , the great Enquiry is to be , What Good will they tend to ? How fhall we be rendred more ufeful to the World , if our De- figns and Endeavours , as to these Matters , do take Effect ...
... Design that is propofed to us . In all these Things , the great Enquiry is to be , What Good will they tend to ? How fhall we be rendred more ufeful to the World , if our De- figns and Endeavours , as to these Matters , do take Effect ...
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Page 131 - My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
Page 406 - ALMIGHTY GOD, who seest that we have no power of ourselves to help ourselves ; Keep us both outwardly in our bodies, and inwardly in our souls ; that we may be defended from all adversities which may happen to the body, and from all evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the soul ; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Page 82 - And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
Page 334 - I more ; circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; an Hebrew of the Hebrews, as touching the law, a Pharisee, concerning zeal, persecuting the church, touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
Page 382 - Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be moved, and though the hills be carried into the midst of the sea.
Page 281 - For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
Page 115 - Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy ; that they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate, laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Page 408 - AND he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint...
Page 307 - For the right faith is that we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and Man: God, of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds; and Man, of the substance of his mother, born in the world; perfect God and perfect Man; of a reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting; equal to the Father, as touching his godhead and inferior to the Father as touching his manhood.
Page 72 - And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.