The Ladies Library ... Written by a Lady, Volume 3J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1751 - Conduct of life |
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... and the Ac → knowledgment of his Providence , he expects we fhou'd follow it , as the Guide and Director of our Lives and Actions ; and whatfoever this Faculty does naturally , b and and in its due Exercife dictate to us , is RELIGION .
... and the Ac → knowledgment of his Providence , he expects we fhou'd follow it , as the Guide and Director of our Lives and Actions ; and whatfoever this Faculty does naturally , b and and in its due Exercife dictate to us , is RELIGION .
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... live but to die happily ; which laft is no small Acceffion to temporal Happiness . From the little that has been faid on this Occafion , tis eafy to form an Answer to what is objected from St. Paul : If in this Life only we have hope in ...
... live but to die happily ; which laft is no small Acceffion to temporal Happiness . From the little that has been faid on this Occafion , tis eafy to form an Answer to what is objected from St. Paul : If in this Life only we have hope in ...
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... lives for no other Purpose , will fo often be at a lofs for innocent Plea- Sure , that he is almost under a Neceffity to call in the Nocent , to ferve the very End as the purposes of her Being . But indeed , were they fure to confine ...
... lives for no other Purpose , will fo often be at a lofs for innocent Plea- Sure , that he is almost under a Neceffity to call in the Nocent , to ferve the very End as the purposes of her Being . But indeed , were they fure to confine ...
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... live upon his Provifions , revere his Power , and feel the Force of his Almightiness . God is more specially present in fôme Places , by the feveral and more special Manifeftations of himself , to extraordinary Purposes . Thus his Seat ...
... live upon his Provifions , revere his Power , and feel the Force of his Almightiness . God is more specially present in fôme Places , by the feveral and more special Manifeftations of himself , to extraordinary Purposes . Thus his Seat ...
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... Lives , we find one or other of these apparent , and in most things see both , it is a proper and proportionate Return , that to every fuch Demonftration of God , we exprefs ourselves fenfible of it , by admiring his divine Goodnefs ...
... Lives , we find one or other of these apparent , and in most things see both , it is a proper and proportionate Return , that to every fuch Demonftration of God , we exprefs ourselves fenfible of it , by admiring his divine Goodnefs ...
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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