Judgment and Mercy for Afflicted Souls: Or, Meditations, Soliloquies, and PrayersLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster Row, 1807 - 332 pages |
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... actions : and though it be too frequent a fault ( as we see by experience ) in gentlemen whose dispositions incline them to the study of poetry , to be loose and debauched in their lives and conversations , yet was it very far from him ...
... actions : and though it be too frequent a fault ( as we see by experience ) in gentlemen whose dispositions incline them to the study of poetry , to be loose and debauched in their lives and conversations , yet was it very far from him ...
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... actions with thy wisdom ; subdue the insolence of my rebellious flesh ; restrain the fury of my unbridled passions ; reform the frailty of my corrupted nature ; incline my heart to de- sire what is good , and bless my endeavours that I ...
... actions with thy wisdom ; subdue the insolence of my rebellious flesh ; restrain the fury of my unbridled passions ; reform the frailty of my corrupted nature ; incline my heart to de- sire what is good , and bless my endeavours that I ...
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... action , and the reward of action is glory . Glory is the great soul of the little world , and is the crown of all sub- lime attempts , and the point whereto the crooked ways of policy are all con- centric . Honour consults not with a ...
... action , and the reward of action is glory . Glory is the great soul of the little world , and is the crown of all sub- lime attempts , and the point whereto the crooked ways of policy are all con- centric . Honour consults not with a ...
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... actions , and let thy memory entail it to succeeding generations . Make thy own game , and if thy conscience check thee , correct thy saucy conscience , till she stand as mute as metamorphosed Niobe . Fear THE VAIN - GLORIOUS MAN . 11.
... actions , and let thy memory entail it to succeeding generations . Make thy own game , and if thy conscience check thee , correct thy saucy conscience , till she stand as mute as metamorphosed Niobe . Fear THE VAIN - GLORIOUS MAN . 11.
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... actions I may fear to offend thee . Endue me , O Lord , with the spirit of meekness , and teach me to overcome evil with a patient heart : mo- derate and curb the exorbitances of my passion , and give me temperate use of all thy ...
... actions I may fear to offend thee . Endue me , O Lord , with the spirit of meekness , and teach me to overcome evil with a patient heart : mo- derate and curb the exorbitances of my passion , and give me temperate use of all thy ...
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Judgment and Mercy // For // Afflicted Souls: [In Red] Or, // Meditations ... Reginald Wolfe,Francis Quarles No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 98 - This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God...
Page 215 - MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower ; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
Page 189 - Enter not into judgment with thy servant, O LORD; for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Page 122 - Six days shalt thou labour, and do all that thou hast to do; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt do no manner of work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, thy cattle, and the stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested...
Page 328 - For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
Page 37 - Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths : but I say unto you, Swear not at all : neither by heaven ; for it is God's throne : nor by the earth ; for it is his footstool...
Page 131 - Let us not therefore judge one another any more : but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
Page 166 - But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day ; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee : Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
Page 311 - As I live, saith the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked ; but that the wicked turn from his way and live.
Page 71 - Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.