The Bioscope, Or Dial of Life: Explained. To which is Added, a Translation of St. Paulinus's Epistle to Celantia, on the Rule of Christian Life: and an Elementary View of General Chronology |
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... rendered , by God's ordinance , most regular and uniform , yet the concern which the mind takes in that progress , is most irregular and contradic- tory . For , the propensity to inquire " How old um I ? " , which we all discover with ...
... rendered , by God's ordinance , most regular and uniform , yet the concern which the mind takes in that progress , is most irregular and contradic- tory . For , the propensity to inquire " How old um I ? " , which we all discover with ...
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... rendered cog- nizable to our capacities . The design of GOD , in producing this created universe by His power , His wisdom , and His goodness , constitutes what we denominate the WILL of GOD . In this visible part of that great work ...
... rendered cog- nizable to our capacities . The design of GOD , in producing this created universe by His power , His wisdom , and His goodness , constitutes what we denominate the WILL of GOD . In this visible part of that great work ...
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... habitual disposition of conforming to His supreme and eternal laws ; as being indispensably necessary , for rendering sure and complete the agency which will be required from them in that ultimate scheme : PRELIMINARY CHAPTER . 11.
... habitual disposition of conforming to His supreme and eternal laws ; as being indispensably necessary , for rendering sure and complete the agency which will be required from them in that ultimate scheme : PRELIMINARY CHAPTER . 11.
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... render it easy for the mind to keep always an even and measured pace with the years of life , so that it may always find itself at its natural post in time , whenever its agency shall be called for . In order that , " when its Lord ...
... render it easy for the mind to keep always an even and measured pace with the years of life , so that it may always find itself at its natural post in time , whenever its agency shall be called for . In order that , " when its Lord ...
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... render it familiarly apparent , I shall lay before the reader some of the reflections , which a continued ob- servation of its indications has already sug- gested ; leaving it to him to extend and multiply them hereafter , by the ...
... render it familiarly apparent , I shall lay before the reader some of the reflections , which a continued ob- servation of its indications has already sug- gested ; leaving it to him to extend and multiply them hereafter , by the ...
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1st PERIOD 2d Period 5th PERIOD acquire ANCIENT HISTORY apostle average measure beginning Bioscope Bishop blessed called Charlemagne CHRIST Christian Chronology Church Cicero commandments Commencement common computation contemplate Croesus death dial Dionysian Dionysian cycle divided divine Easter-day Egypt Emperor epact epocha established eternal evil exercise FRENCH EMPIRE Gospel Greek habit happiness hath HEAD of ROMAN heart heathen Heaven Hebrew Heracles holy honour human journey Julian period Julius Cæsar King of England King of France labour live Lord lunar cycle ment Middle-Age mind MODERN HISTORY moon moral agents nature object ourselves Paulinus perfect Pope Gregory XIII present progress prophet prospect reason reckoning reflect religion rendered righteousness ROMAN EMPIRE Romanus II Rome rule SACRED Saracens says sensible SEVENTY solar soul Sunday Letter Sunday-letter things thou thoughts tion truth unto vice virtue wise youth
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Page 69 - tis madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Page 225 - Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God: even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
Page 69 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they?
Page 134 - The chamber where the good man meets his fate, Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heav'n.
Page 228 - Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the orna-ment of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Page 231 - For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
Page 97 - So went on, Foretelling this same time's condition And the division of our amity. WARWICK There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the natures of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, who in their seeds And weak beginning lie intreasured.
Page 142 - The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave ; The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm; These are the bug-bears of a winter's eve, The terrors of the living, not the dead.
Page 200 - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness ? 15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial ? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel ? 16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?
Page 229 - The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.