The Great Law of Consideration, Or, A Discourse, Wherein the Nature, Usefulness, and Absolute Necessity of Consideration, in Order to a Truly Serious and Religious Life, is Laid Open |
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... persons that occafion'd them , the hour that ever I thought of them ! O how I fhould with that I had im- prov'd those opportunities I do now make light of , and believed Mofes and the Prophets that gave me warning , and turn'd to God ...
... persons that occafion'd them , the hour that ever I thought of them ! O how I fhould with that I had im- prov'd those opportunities I do now make light of , and believed Mofes and the Prophets that gave me warning , and turn'd to God ...
Page 86
... person that believes the Omniprefence and Omniscience of God ? Doth it make me with Abraham ready to offer up mine only Son , Sins as dear to me , as the Darling fruit of my Body ? Is it of that force in my Soul , that it makes me go ...
... person that believes the Omniprefence and Omniscience of God ? Doth it make me with Abraham ready to offer up mine only Son , Sins as dear to me , as the Darling fruit of my Body ? Is it of that force in my Soul , that it makes me go ...
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... persons alive , men whofe fortune is as low as their learning , do arrive to this art , and there- fore that plea deserves to be hifs'd at ; what is done , may be done again , and if unlearned ig- norant illiterate men do very often ...
... persons alive , men whofe fortune is as low as their learning , do arrive to this art , and there- fore that plea deserves to be hifs'd at ; what is done , may be done again , and if unlearned ig- norant illiterate men do very often ...
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... nothing too good for them , if they will but ap- prove themselves obedient Children , and live like persons who are fenfible of the obligations of the Highest . Con- Confideration would let them fee , that this God , of Confideration . 121.
... nothing too good for them , if they will but ap- prove themselves obedient Children , and live like persons who are fenfible of the obligations of the Highest . Con- Confideration would let them fee , that this God , of Confideration . 121.
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... person that's ready to perish with cold , reject the fire and cloathing we have prepared for him ; and wonder to fee one who is blind , scorn the help of him that would certainly restore him to his fight ; and wonder to fee one , who is ...
... person that's ready to perish with cold , reject the fire and cloathing we have prepared for him ; and wonder to fee one who is blind , scorn the help of him that would certainly restore him to his fight ; and wonder to fee one , who is ...
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Page 40 - God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Page 6 - And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together; the floods stood upright as an heap and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
Page 12 - For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more ; and unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews ; to them that are under the law...
Page 253 - Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
Page 240 - Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered...
Page 77 - And he said unto them that stood by, Take from him the pound, and give it to him that hath ten pounds. (And they said unto him, Lord, he hath 'ten pounds.) For I say unto you, That unto every one which hath shall be given; and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away from him. But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
Page 355 - In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. His going forth Is from the end of the heaven and his circuit unto the ends of It: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Page 224 - But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner ; with such an one no not to eat.
Page 70 - Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight : but all things are naked and open unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Page 229 - Saul, that divine vengeance had already begun to seize him, and that full execution would quickly have been done. But " God's ways are not as our ways, nor are his thoughts as our thoughts.