The Ladies Library ... Written by a Lady, Volume 3J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1751 - Conduct of life |
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... Christ , that receive Praise of one another ? An unchaste Man cannot easily be brought to believe , that in chaste Purity he shall ever fee God . He that loves Riches can hardly believe the Doctrine of Poverty , and Renuncia- tion tion ...
... Christ , that receive Praise of one another ? An unchaste Man cannot easily be brought to believe , that in chaste Purity he shall ever fee God . He that loves Riches can hardly believe the Doctrine of Poverty , and Renuncia- tion tion ...
Page 76
... Christ's fake God is pleafed with what he does , and accepts of it as well as if he was every way as perfect and exact as the Law itself requires it fhould be : Which is fo great , fo high a Comfort , that they who experience it in them ...
... Christ's fake God is pleafed with what he does , and accepts of it as well as if he was every way as perfect and exact as the Law itself requires it fhould be : Which is fo great , fo high a Comfort , that they who experience it in them ...
Page 187
... may be useful , that we confider the Eafinefs of Christ's Yoke , the Excellencies and Sweetness that are in Religion , the Peace of Confcience , the Joy of the Holy Ghoft , Ghoft , the rejoicing in God ; the Simplicity and PRAYER . 187.
... may be useful , that we confider the Eafinefs of Christ's Yoke , the Excellencies and Sweetness that are in Religion , the Peace of Confcience , the Joy of the Holy Ghoft , Ghoft , the rejoicing in God ; the Simplicity and PRAYER . 187.
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... Christ , in the Place of Torment ; yet as to Communities , I cannot but think it better to have a Face of Religion than Profaneness : The Example of the former may work beyond itself , and a Form of Godliness in fome , may produce the ...
... Christ , in the Place of Torment ; yet as to Communities , I cannot but think it better to have a Face of Religion than Profaneness : The Example of the former may work beyond itself , and a Form of Godliness in fome , may produce the ...
Page 210
... a Guard against Sin , exalting me to fight the good Fight of Faith , that I may receive an everlafting Crown : And all for the fake of Jefus Christ our Lord . Amen . FAST- I FASTING . F Fafting be confider'd in itself , 210 PRAYER .
... a Guard against Sin , exalting me to fight the good Fight of Faith , that I may receive an everlafting Crown : And all for the fake of Jefus Christ our Lord . Amen . FAST- I FASTING . F Fafting be confider'd in itself , 210 PRAYER .
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Page 40 - ... that opens all his wants to him, that weeps before him for his sins, that asks remedy and support for his weakness, that fears him as a Judge, reverences him as a Lord, obeys him as a Father, and loves him as a Patron.
Page 38 - Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: If 1 make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
Page 55 - The apostle calls it the band of perfection; it is the old, and it is the new, and it is the great commandment, and it is all the commandments; for it is the fulfilling of the law.
Page 266 - A man travelling into a far country, called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods; to one five talents, to another two, to another one, to every man according to his several ability, and took his journey.
Page 38 - Him in the glass of the creation. In the face of the sun you may see God's beauty ; in the fire you may feel His heat warming ; in the water, His gentleness to refresh you...
Page 34 - God to be as the air and the sea ; and we all enclosed in his circle, wrapped up in the lap of his infinite nature ; or as infants in the wombs of their pregnant mothers : and we can no more be removed from the presence of God, than from our own being.
Page 260 - ... whatfoever things are of good report : If ' there be any virtue, and if there be any praife, think