The Ladies Library ... Written by a Lady, Volume 3J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1751 - Conduct of life |
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... have been leffened by your Perfections , and loft Power by your Charms That ingenuous Spirit in all your Behaviour , that familiar Grace in your Words and Acti- ons , ons , has for this seven Years only inspired Admiration DEDICATION .
... have been leffened by your Perfections , and loft Power by your Charms That ingenuous Spirit in all your Behaviour , that familiar Grace in your Words and Acti- ons , ons , has for this seven Years only inspired Admiration DEDICATION .
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... Spirit is Joy , Peace , & c . Again , Now the God of Hope fill you with Joy and Peace in believing , and make you abound in Hope , thro ' the Power of the Holy Ghoft . Godliness is profitable to all things , hav • ing the Promife of the ...
... Spirit is Joy , Peace , & c . Again , Now the God of Hope fill you with Joy and Peace in believing , and make you abound in Hope , thro ' the Power of the Holy Ghoft . Godliness is profitable to all things , hav • ing the Promife of the ...
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... Spirit dif- fuses itself into all the most distant Members of the Body ; fo this more vital Principle has as universal Influence on the Mind , ftamps that with fuch an Admiration and Re- verence of God , fuch a Love and Complacency in ...
... Spirit dif- fuses itself into all the most distant Members of the Body ; fo this more vital Principle has as universal Influence on the Mind , ftamps that with fuch an Admiration and Re- verence of God , fuch a Love and Complacency in ...
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... Spirits there are so ignoble , that the moft glorious Prize cannot animate them ; that like a Swine , the Muscles of ... Spirit always prepar'd for fuch a Servitude ? Befides , even the utmoft Suffering which Christianity VOL . III . C ...
... Spirits there are so ignoble , that the moft glorious Prize cannot animate them ; that like a Swine , the Muscles of ... Spirit always prepar'd for fuch a Servitude ? Befides , even the utmoft Suffering which Christianity VOL . III . C ...
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... Spirit . Indeed the Hearts of holy Men and Women are Temples in the truth of Things , and in Type and Shadow they ... Spirit , and the Spirit by his Purities . Thus we are alfo Cabinets of the myste- rious Trinity ; and what is this ...
... Spirit . Indeed the Hearts of holy Men and Women are Temples in the truth of Things , and in Type and Shadow they ... Spirit , and the Spirit by his Purities . Thus we are alfo Cabinets of the myste- rious Trinity ; and what is this ...
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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