Ecclesiastical Biography: Or, Lives of Eminent Men, Connected with the History of Religion in England : from the Commencement of the Reformation to the Revolution, Volumen 4J.G. & F. Rivington, 1839 |
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... observed the thread of life to be like other threads or skeins of silk , full of snarles and incumbrances : happy is he whose bottom is wound up and laid ready for use in the New Jerusalem.- -For myself , dear mother , I always feared ...
... observed the thread of life to be like other threads or skeins of silk , full of snarles and incumbrances : happy is he whose bottom is wound up and laid ready for use in the New Jerusalem.- -For myself , dear mother , I always feared ...
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... observe , and obey , and do his will ; and always call him Jesus my master2 ; and I will always contemn my birth , or any title or dignity that can be conferred upon me , when I shall compare them with my title of being a priest , and ...
... observe , and obey , and do his will ; and always call him Jesus my master2 ; and I will always contemn my birth , or any title or dignity that can be conferred upon me , when I shall compare them with my title of being a priest , and ...
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... observe it with a chearful willing- ness . " And indeed her unforced humility , that humility that was in her so original as to be born with her ! made her so happy as to do so ; and her doing so begot her an unfeigned love , and a ...
... observe it with a chearful willing- ness . " And indeed her unforced humility , that humility that was in her so original as to be born with her ! made her so happy as to do so ; and her doing so begot her an unfeigned love , and a ...
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... observe ; and , that time might not insensibly blot them out of his memory , but that the next year might shew him his variations from this year's resolutions ; he therefore did set down his rules , then resolved upon , in that order ...
... observe ; and , that time might not insensibly blot them out of his memory , but that the next year might shew him his variations from this year's resolutions ; he therefore did set down his rules , then resolved upon , in that order ...
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... observation of the Jewish Sabbath , and the like : and he made them know , that having received so many , and so great blessings , by being born since the days of our Sa- viour , it must be an acceptable sacrifice to almighty God , for ...
... observation of the Jewish Sabbath , and the like : and he made them know , that having received so many , and so great blessings , by being born since the days of our Sa- viour , it must be an acceptable sacrifice to almighty God , for ...
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Página 553 - THE righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: And merciful men are taken away, none considering That the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
Página 292 - Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken ? or whose ass have I taken ? or whom have I defrauded ? whom have I oppressed ? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith ? and I will restore it you. And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.
Página 438 - Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
Página 40 - And when one of the company told him he had disparaged himself by so dirty an employment, his answer was that the thought of what he had done would prove music to him at midnight ; and that the omission of it would have upbraided and made discord in his conscience whensoever he should pass by that place — " For if I be bound to pray for all that be in distress, I am sure that I am bound, so far as it is in my power, to practice what I pray for.
Página 218 - Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Página 26 - I now look back upon my aspiring thoughts, and think myself more happy than if I had attained what then I so ambitiously thirsted for ; and I can now behold the Court with an impartial eye, and see plainly that it is made up of fraud, and titles, and flattery, and many other such empty, imaginary, painted pleasures — pleasures that are so empty as not to satisfy when they are enjoyed. But in God and His service is a fulness of all joy and pleasure, and no satiety.
Página 18 - And though the iniquity of the late times have made clergymen meanly valued, and the sacred name of priest contemptible; yet I will labour to make it honourable, by consecrating all my learning, and all my poor abilities to advance the glory of that God that gave them; knowing that I can never do too much for him, that hath done so much for me, as to make me a Christian. And I will labour to be like my Saviour, by making humility lovely in the eyes of all men, and by following the merciful and meek...
Página 415 - And when the month and he did return, the good King was never absent from his Sermons, and would usually say, / carry my ears to hear other preachers ; but I carry my conscience to hear Mr. Sanderson, and to act accordingly.
Página 278 - Every day is a little life; and our whole life is but a day repeated: whence it is, that old Jacob numbers his life by days; and Moses desires to be taught this point of holy arithmetic, ' to number ' not his years, but
Página 40 - That the thought of what he had done would prove music to him at midnight; and that the omission of it would have upbraided and made discord in his conscience, whensoever he should pass by that place; for, if I be bound to pray for all that be in distress, I am sure that I am bound so far as it is in my power to practise what I pray for.