 | Thomas Secker (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1738 - 56 pages
...Would to God there were lefs need of expreffing a Concern for them, than there is at prefent ! MEN have always complained of their own Times : and always with too much Reafon. But though it is natural, to think thofe Evils the greateft, which we feel ourfelves; and therefore... | |
 | Thomas Secker (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1790 - 388 pages
...there were Jefs Need of exA 2 prefTing prefling a Concern for them, than there is at prefent ! Men have always complained of their own Times: and always with too much Reafon. But though it is natural to think thofe Evils the greateft, which we feel ourfelves; and therefore... | |
 | Richard Watson - Theology - 1791 - 478 pages
...natural to think thofe evils the greaterf, which we feel ourfclves ; and therefore miftakes are eafily made, in comparing one age with another : yet in this we cannot be miftaken, that an open and profefled difregard to religion is become, through a variety of unhappy... | |
 | Thomas Secker - Sermons, English - 1792 - 604 pages
...natural to thinkthofe evils the greateft, which we feel ourfelves ; and therefore miftakes are eafily made, in comparing one age with another ; yet in this we cannot be miftaken, that an open and profefled difregard to religion is become, through a variety of unhappy... | |
 | Thomas Secker - Sermons, English - 1825 - 546 pages
...God there were less need of expressing a concern for them, than there is at present f VOL. V. X Men have always complained of their own times : and always...is become, through a variety of unhappy causes, the distinguishing character of the present age ; that this evil is grown to a great height in the metropolis... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth - Christian education - 1829 - 738 pages
...his first charge, in 1738, after allowing the proneness of men to complain of their times, says, ' In this we cannot be mistaken, that an open and professed...is become, through a variety of unhappy causes, the distinguishing character of the present age, that this evil is grown to a great height in the metropolis... | |
 | Thomas Jackson - Itinerancy (Church polity) - 1839 - 256 pages
...edition, t Advertisement prefixed to the first edition of the Analogy. ARCHBISHOP SECKER, 1738. " Men have always complained of their own times, and always...is become, through a variety of unhappy causes, the distinguishing character of the present age ; that this evil is grown to a great height in the metropolis... | |
 | 1840 - 504 pages
...happiest effects»." What was the fearful character of those times? The archbishop himself tells us. " In this we cannot be mistaken, that an open and professed...to religion is become, through a variety of unhappy cause«, the distinguishing character of the present age, that this evil is grown to a great height... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - 1840 - 590 pages
...of the prevailing tone of society in the present day. 133. In 1738, Archbishop Seeker J writes : " An open and professed disregard to religion is become, through a variety of unhappy causes, the distin* Doddridge's Correspondence, iii. 548. t Advertisement to the Analogy. J Eight Charges, in Seeker's... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - 1840 - 592 pages
...of the prevailing tone of society in the present day. 133. In 1738, Archbishop Seeker $ writes : " An open and professed disregard to religion is become, through a variety of unhappy causes, the distin* Doddridge's Correspondence, iii. 548. t Advertisement to the Analogy. J Eight Charges, in Seeker's... | |
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... in this we cannot be mistaken, that an open and professed disregard > to religion is become, through a variety of unhappy causes, the distinguishing character of the present age... 
