The Ladies Library ... Written by a Lady, Volume 3J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1751 - Conduct of life |
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... Delights which may entertain his Reafon not his Senfe , which confifts in the Recitude of a well - inform'd Mind . His Religion is the perfected Scheme of Morality , and makes him a Philofopher with- out the Help of the Schools . It ...
... Delights which may entertain his Reafon not his Senfe , which confifts in the Recitude of a well - inform'd Mind . His Religion is the perfected Scheme of Morality , and makes him a Philofopher with- out the Help of the Schools . It ...
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... Delights of Devotion , knows withal that there is no other fit to come into Competition with it , and fo is not distracted in her Choice , nor need go far- ther than her Clofet for the moft agreeable Entertainment . This , I know , will ...
... Delights of Devotion , knows withal that there is no other fit to come into Competition with it , and fo is not distracted in her Choice , nor need go far- ther than her Clofet for the moft agreeable Entertainment . This , I know , will ...
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... delight in the Partners and Witnesses of our Conversation . Every Degree of mutual abiding and converfing , being a Relation and an Endearment : We are of the fame houfhold with God : He is with us , in our natural Actions to preserve ...
... delight in the Partners and Witnesses of our Conversation . Every Degree of mutual abiding and converfing , being a Relation and an Endearment : We are of the fame houfhold with God : He is with us , in our natural Actions to preserve ...
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... delightful , and therefore to be intire , perfevering , and univerfal . The Acts and Offices of Faith are , To believe every thing which God has reveal'd to us ; and when once we are convinced that God has spoken it , to make no far ...
... delightful , and therefore to be intire , perfevering , and univerfal . The Acts and Offices of Faith are , To believe every thing which God has reveal'd to us ; and when once we are convinced that God has spoken it , to make no far ...
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... delighted when they have them , but can very well be without them . True Charity is restless till it enjoys God in fuch Instances in which it wants him . It is like Hunger and Thirst , it must be fed or it cannot be answered , Nothing ...
... delighted when they have them , but can very well be without them . True Charity is restless till it enjoys God in fuch Instances in which it wants him . It is like Hunger and Thirst , it must be fed or it cannot be answered , Nothing ...
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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