The Posthumous Works of the Late Learned and Reverend Isaac Watts, D.D.: In Two Volumes. Compiled from Papers in Possession of His Immediate Successors:T. Becket, Adelphi, Strand; and J. Bew, Pater-Noster Row., 1779 - 306 pages |
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... said of him that writes on any fubject with that happy temper and difpofition that appears in what I read on that important fubject of your Differtations . But I will add therefore , what can be so worthy of a christian and a divine ...
... said of him that writes on any fubject with that happy temper and difpofition that appears in what I read on that important fubject of your Differtations . But I will add therefore , what can be so worthy of a christian and a divine ...
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... said perfectly ) free from ; yet , as I have at all times , when this matter hath been mentioned , readily acknowledged , fo I now in this manner own to you , I was in the wrong to say what I faid , because I impertinently talked about ...
... said perfectly ) free from ; yet , as I have at all times , when this matter hath been mentioned , readily acknowledged , fo I now in this manner own to you , I was in the wrong to say what I faid , because I impertinently talked about ...
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... alto- gether unkind and unjust , and enough is said to fhew it to be fo in that 13th page . The ftory , if true , like a fhechinah of light , cafts a brightness H 2 both both on the living and the dead , in my ( 99 )
... alto- gether unkind and unjust , and enough is said to fhew it to be fo in that 13th page . The ftory , if true , like a fhechinah of light , cafts a brightness H 2 both both on the living and the dead , in my ( 99 )
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... said she would believe whatever he wrote , for he was a truly good man , and had wrote upon the Rife and Progrefs of Religion in the Soul , in a manner which she was sure would please me . She gave me the title in writing , and I bought ...
... said she would believe whatever he wrote , for he was a truly good man , and had wrote upon the Rife and Progrefs of Religion in the Soul , in a manner which she was sure would please me . She gave me the title in writing , and I bought ...
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... said , " Our dearly beloved brother Paul writes fome few things hard to be understood . " But I do not content myself with fuch a notion , I have a very good fenfe of the words , which is perfectly fatis- factory to me , though I do not ...
... said , " Our dearly beloved brother Paul writes fome few things hard to be understood . " But I do not content myself with fuch a notion , I have a very good fenfe of the words , which is perfectly fatis- factory to me , though I do not ...
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Page 274 - And He humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know ; that He might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
Page 280 - For our light affliction which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. While 'we look not at the things which are feen, but at the things which are not feen; for the things which are feen, are temporal ; but the things which are not feen, are eternal, 2 Cor.
Page 79 - I am this day to have the privilege of addressing you, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your courtesy and attention in listening to me.
Page 242 - Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid ; be ye very desolate, saith the LORD. For my people have committed two evils ; they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Page 232 - The waters compassed me about even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast Thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.
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Page 158 - There were some of the Independents heretofore called Brownists, some of whom were very irregular in the management of church affairs, but they are not to be found now : the tenets of rigid Independents are ; 1st, That every church hath all the power of governing itself in itself, and that every thing done in a church must be by the majority of the votes of the brethren. 2d, That every church has its minister ordained to itself, and that he cannot administer the ordinances to any other people, and...