Some Meditations and Prayers Selected from The Way of Eternal Life: In Order to Illustrate and Explain the Pictures by Boetius a Bolswert for the Same Work : Translated from the Latin, and Adapted to the Use of the English ChurchJ.H. Parker, 1845 - 356 pages |
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... able to obtain a happier life and termination . FIRST POINT . Origin and end of man . CONSIDER the abyss of nothingness which existed before the world was made , where and what this scene of things then was , the earth , kings , and ...
... able to obtain a happier life and termination . FIRST POINT . Origin and end of man . CONSIDER the abyss of nothingness which existed before the world was made , where and what this scene of things then was , the earth , kings , and ...
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... able , for Thy sake I wish to please Thee , mourning over all my sins . Blessed be Thou for evermore . Thou visitest the earth and blessed it , " with the shower and dew of Thy grace ; grant , I pray Thee , increase to Thy holy seed ...
... able , for Thy sake I wish to please Thee , mourning over all my sins . Blessed be Thou for evermore . Thou visitest the earth and blessed it , " with the shower and dew of Thy grace ; grant , I pray Thee , increase to Thy holy seed ...
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... able ? Who would stay till the thread , which he can scarcely cut off , shall have increased to the size of a ship's cable ? that is , till evil habit shall have bound him more strongly , till the nail shall have become more deeply ...
... able ? Who would stay till the thread , which he can scarcely cut off , shall have increased to the size of a ship's cable ? that is , till evil habit shall have bound him more strongly , till the nail shall have become more deeply ...
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... if at any time he should see thy soul in danger , if he should detect any disease in it , or any contrivances of thine infernal enemies , that so thou mayst be able to meet the coming mischief . But do thou 22 ON TIMELY CONVERSION.
... if at any time he should see thy soul in danger , if he should detect any disease in it , or any contrivances of thine infernal enemies , that so thou mayst be able to meet the coming mischief . But do thou 22 ON TIMELY CONVERSION.
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... able to meet the coming mischief . But do thou habitually call on God in such words as these " Shew me Thy ways , O Lord , and teach me Thy paths . " " O that my ways were made so direct , that I might keep Thy statutes . " " I have ...
... able to meet the coming mischief . But do thou habitually call on God in such words as these " Shew me Thy ways , O Lord , and teach me Thy paths . " " O that my ways were made so direct , that I might keep Thy statutes . " " I have ...
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Page 295 - Praise the Lord, O my soul : and all that is within me praise his holy Name. Praise the Lord, O my soul : and forget not all his benefits...
Page 223 - There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise: 25 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer...
Page 170 - How is the gold become dim ! how is the most fine gold changed ! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter...
Page 243 - That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness.
Page 200 - Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
Page 254 - The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth, to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
Page 230 - It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Page 279 - One thing have I desired of the LORD, which I will require, even that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the fair beauty of the LORD, and to visit his temple.
Page 303 - Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Page 250 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever : and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.