The Ladies Library ... Written by a Lady, Volume 3J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1751 - Conduct of life |
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Page 40
... Exercise of confidering the divine Presence is an excellent Help to Prayer , producing in us Reverence and Awfulness to the divine Majefty of God , and actual Devotion in our Offices . It also produces a confidence in God , and ...
... Exercise of confidering the divine Presence is an excellent Help to Prayer , producing in us Reverence and Awfulness to the divine Majefty of God , and actual Devotion in our Offices . It also produces a confidence in God , and ...
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... Exercise is apt also to kindle holy Defires of the enjoyment of God , because it produces Joy when we do enjoy him ; the fame Defires that a weak Man has for a Defender , the fick Man for a Phyfician , the Poor for a Patron , the Child ...
... Exercise is apt also to kindle holy Defires of the enjoyment of God , because it produces Joy when we do enjoy him ; the fame Defires that a weak Man has for a Defender , the fick Man for a Phyfician , the Poor for a Patron , the Child ...
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... Exercise of true Piety and Virtue , who is not fo affec ted with it , as to take a great deal of Pleasure and De- light in it , there being nothing that can afford so much Joy and Satisfaction to the Soul as that does . I can- not give ...
... Exercise of true Piety and Virtue , who is not fo affec ted with it , as to take a great deal of Pleasure and De- light in it , there being nothing that can afford so much Joy and Satisfaction to the Soul as that does . I can- not give ...
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... Exercise of all true Grace and Virtue ? What shall we think of it ? Why certainly that it is far greater than we are ... exercises itself in the loving of God , and longing after him , in trusting on 1 him , and rejoicing in him , and ...
... Exercise of all true Grace and Virtue ? What shall we think of it ? Why certainly that it is far greater than we are ... exercises itself in the loving of God , and longing after him , in trusting on 1 him , and rejoicing in him , and ...
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... exercises those Graces which God re- quires , enjoys by it Peace of Confcience , an unspeak- able Joy and Satisfaction in his Mind arifing from the Senfe and Confideration , that he has done his Duty , and that God is pleas'd with him ...
... exercises those Graces which God re- quires , enjoys by it Peace of Confcience , an unspeak- able Joy and Satisfaction in his Mind arifing from the Senfe and Confideration , that he has done his Duty , and that God is pleas'd with him ...
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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