Private Thoughts Upon Religion and a Christian LifeA.J. Valpy ; sold by Longman, Baldwin, Rivington & Company, 1821 - 369 pages |
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... Never perhaps was any man held in higher estimation by his cotemporaries , and never had any man less reason to be ashamed of the means by which his reputation was acquired . As a writer he has been long and greatly valued . His works ...
... Never perhaps was any man held in higher estimation by his cotemporaries , and never had any man less reason to be ashamed of the means by which his reputation was acquired . As a writer he has been long and greatly valued . His works ...
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... of the doctrine of our church , the other endeavour- ing to establish it by an orthodox faith and an unspotted life , were never more seasonable , than in this age ; when the very being of the church is called in question 20.
... of the doctrine of our church , the other endeavour- ing to establish it by an orthodox faith and an unspotted life , were never more seasonable , than in this age ; when the very being of the church is called in question 20.
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... never be dissolved ; being not compounded of any earthly or ele- mentary matter , as the body is , but a pure spiritual sub- stance , infused into me by God , to whom , after a short abode in the body , it is to return , and to live and ...
... never be dissolved ; being not compounded of any earthly or ele- mentary matter , as the body is , but a pure spiritual sub- stance , infused into me by God , to whom , after a short abode in the body , it is to return , and to live and ...
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... never produces any one effect that is regular and uniform , so it cannot be supposed that a being of such admirable beauty , symmetry , and pro- portion , and such a nice contexture of parts , as the body of man is , should ever be ...
... never produces any one effect that is regular and uniform , so it cannot be supposed that a being of such admirable beauty , symmetry , and pro- portion , and such a nice contexture of parts , as the body of man is , should ever be ...
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... Never did a thought lurk so secretly in my heart , but that his all - seeing eye could espy it out : even at this time , he knows what I am now thinking of , and what I am doing , as well as myself . And indeed well may he know what I ...
... Never did a thought lurk so secretly in my heart , but that his all - seeing eye could espy it out : even at this time , he knows what I am now thinking of , and what I am doing , as well as myself . And indeed well may he know what I ...
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Page 199 - Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Page 190 - And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Page 91 - Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust : for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Page 129 - If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, To give glory unto my name, saith the Lord of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: Yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
Page 240 - O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.
Page 231 - But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
Page 197 - Lord's Prayer, and the ten Commandments, in the vulgar tongue, and all other things which a Christian ought to know and believe to his soul's health...
Page 193 - God's holy will and commandments, and walk in the same all the days of my life.
Page 274 - If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
Page 277 - And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed, saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me : nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done.