Sermons ...: With a Short Account of the Life and Character of the Author, Volumen 3Sharpe & Son, Edwards & Company, [and others], 1820 |
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... remain merely on the surface of the mind . They penetrate the heart . They enlarge and elevate , they refine and ennoble it . To all the pleasing emotions of affection , they add the dignified consciousness of virtue . Children of Men ...
... remain merely on the surface of the mind . They penetrate the heart . They enlarge and elevate , they refine and ennoble it . To all the pleasing emotions of affection , they add the dignified consciousness of virtue . Children of Men ...
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... remain an instinctive feeling alone , it will form no more than an imperfect character . Complete virtue is of a more ex- alted and dignified nature . It supposes sen- sibility , good temper and benevolent affec- tions ; it includes ...
... remain an instinctive feeling alone , it will form no more than an imperfect character . Complete virtue is of a more ex- alted and dignified nature . It supposes sen- sibility , good temper and benevolent affec- tions ; it includes ...
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... remain ! Like charac- ters drawn on the sand , which the next wave washes totally away ; so one trivial succession ... remains in remembrance , and oblige it to contribute to future improve- ment . If If you have gained nothing more by ...
... remain ! Like charac- ters drawn on the sand , which the next wave washes totally away ; so one trivial succession ... remains in remembrance , and oblige it to contribute to future improve- ment . If If you have gained nothing more by ...
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... remains to be done . If we suffer the present time to be wasted either in abso- lute idleness or in frivolous employments , it will hereafter call for vengeance against us . Removing , therefore , what is mere- ly superfluous , let us ...
... remains to be done . If we suffer the present time to be wasted either in abso- lute idleness or in frivolous employments , it will hereafter call for vengeance against us . Removing , therefore , what is mere- ly superfluous , let us ...
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... two considerations . First , that much of what it contains must remain to us absolutely unknown ; next , that there are also some events in which it may be certainly known and foreseen 48 ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF TIME . [ SERM.3 .
... two considerations . First , that much of what it contains must remain to us absolutely unknown ; next , that there are also some events in which it may be certainly known and foreseen 48 ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF TIME . [ SERM.3 .
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Página 46 - Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near...
Página 115 - The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Página 324 - Fear ye not me? Saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Página 151 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Página 77 - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Página 201 - Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Página 18 - And being but one. she can do all things: and remaining in herself, she maketh all things new: and in all ages entering into holy souls, she maketh them friends of God , and prophets, For God loveth none but him that dwelleth with wisdom.
Página 183 - He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
Página 111 - And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all. And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him, Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more.
Página 152 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.