Sermons by J. B. Massillon, Bishop of Clermont: To which is Prefixed, the Life of the Author, 1. köideM. Carey and son, 1818 |
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... worthy of the charge he had received . This office he entrusted to Massillon , who performed it with as much readiness as success . The Cardinal , astonished at re- ceiving from that quarter a piece so well written , was not afraid of ...
... worthy of the charge he had received . This office he entrusted to Massillon , who performed it with as much readiness as success . The Cardinal , astonished at re- ceiving from that quarter a piece so well written , was not afraid of ...
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... worthy of man , but what will endure as long as man . The cares of the pas- sions are always weighty and important : The steps which we take for heaven , are weak and languid : It is only salvation we consider as an amusement : We toil ...
... worthy of man , but what will endure as long as man . The cares of the pas- sions are always weighty and important : The steps which we take for heaven , are weak and languid : It is only salvation we consider as an amusement : We toil ...
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... worthy of man , than the cares of eternity ? Prosperities are honourable anxieties ; splendid employments an il- lustrious servitude ; reputation is frequently a public er- ror ; titles and dignities are rarely the fruit of virtue , and ...
... worthy of man , than the cares of eternity ? Prosperities are honourable anxieties ; splendid employments an il- lustrious servitude ; reputation is frequently a public er- ror ; titles and dignities are rarely the fruit of virtue , and ...
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... worthy of it ; but the point in which we commonly deceive ourselves is , the rank which we give to those works , a- midst the other occupations which divide our life . The trifles , the attentions which we lavish so profusely in our ...
... worthy of it ; but the point in which we commonly deceive ourselves is , the rank which we give to those works , a- midst the other occupations which divide our life . The trifles , the attentions which we lavish so profusely in our ...
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... worthy of compassion ; that they are feelingly touched to see your errors ; to see you suffering every thing for a world which either despi- ses you , wearies you , or cannot render you happy ; to see you frequently running after ...
... worthy of compassion ; that they are feelingly touched to see your errors ; to see you suffering every thing for a world which either despi- ses you , wearies you , or cannot render you happy ; to see you frequently running after ...
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Page iv - An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and...
Page 84 - I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man; but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Page iv - An act supplementary to an act, entitled, * An act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Chans, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned,* and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other Prints.
Page 447 - And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, and stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Page 130 - So he turned and went away in a rage. And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
Page 84 - Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Page iv - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Page 489 - Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said ; It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you ; but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
Page 382 - Reproach hath broken my heart ; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none ; And for comforters, but I found none.
Page 308 - Awake, awake ; put on thy strength, O Zion ; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city : for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. Shake thyself from the dust ; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem : loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.