The Ladies Library ... Written by a Lady, Volume 3J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1751 - Conduct of life |
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... Christianity , being indifpenfably neceffary to the Propa- gation of the Gospel ; but bleffed be God , the Reason of that Duty has long ago ceas'd . And all that I can think neceffary to be faid here , in purfuance of my Defign , to ...
... Christianity , being indifpenfably neceffary to the Propa- gation of the Gospel ; but bleffed be God , the Reason of that Duty has long ago ceas'd . And all that I can think neceffary to be faid here , in purfuance of my Defign , to ...
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... , more below the Dignity of buman Nature , than to have a Spirit always prepar'd for fuch a Servitude ? Befides , even the utmoft Suffering which Christianity VOL . III . C сал can at any time require , is out - vy'd RELIGION . 25.
... , more below the Dignity of buman Nature , than to have a Spirit always prepar'd for fuch a Servitude ? Befides , even the utmoft Suffering which Christianity VOL . III . C сал can at any time require , is out - vy'd RELIGION . 25.
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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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... Christian to folace and delight himself continually in , the Soul it- felf being the proper and immediate judge of it . As the Pleafures which arife from Piety exceed all others in the Subject , fo do they in the Object too . Whatever ...
... Christian to folace and delight himself continually in , the Soul it- felf being the proper and immediate judge of it . As the Pleafures which arife from Piety exceed all others in the Subject , fo do they in the Object too . Whatever ...
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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