Historical and Biographical Works, Volume 13

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Clarendon Press, 1822

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Page 298 - My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him. For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth ; and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Page 471 - God ; so for curious and carnal persons, lacking the spirit of Christ, to have continually before their eyes the sentence of God's predestination, is a most dangerous downfall, whereby the Devil doth thrust them either into desperation or into wretchlessness of most unclean living, no less perilous than desperation.
Page 471 - As the godly consideration of predestination and our Election in Christ is full of sweet, pleasant and unspeakable comfort to godly persons, and such as feel in themselves the working of the Spirit of Christ mortifying the works of the flesh and their earthly members and drawing up' their mind to high and heavenly things...
Page 456 - ... in the name of the father and of the sonne, and of the holy ghost...
Page 320 - Lord of mercy bring us in his good time, through Christ our Lord ; to whom, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, three Persons and one God, be all honour and glory, world without end. Amen.
Page 56 - ... double heart. 3 The LORD shall root out all deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things : 4 Which have said, With our tongue will we prevail ; we are they that ought to speak : who is Lord over us ? 5 Now, for the comfortless troubles...
Page 376 - And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, He hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Page 223 - Commandments expressed in the Old Law, the Two Commandments of the Gospel, or New Law ; that is, of earnest Love to God, and to our Neighbour ; the seven Works of Mercy; the seven deadly Sins, with their Off-spring, Progeny, and Issue ; the seven principal Vertues, and the seven Sacraments of the Church ? Article 35.
Page 298 - Let them that suffer according to the will of God, commit their souls to him, as unto a faithful Creator* And, Let him not be ashamed that suffereth as a Christian man, but rather glorify God in this condition.
Page 301 - If any man perceive his faith [not] to abide the fire, let such an one with weeping buy his liberty, until he hath obtained more strength ; lest the gospel by him sustain an offence of some shameful recantation. Let the dead bury the dead.

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