The Ladies Library ... Written by a Lady, Volume 3J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1751 - Conduct of life |
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... tion was ever thought by the Light of Nature fübfervient to our true Happiness . › Hierocles in the beginning of his divine Comments , gives us a fhort but full Account of the Pythagorean , Pythagorean , and I may add Platonick ...
... tion was ever thought by the Light of Nature fübfervient to our true Happiness . › Hierocles in the beginning of his divine Comments , gives us a fhort but full Account of the Pythagorean , Pythagorean , and I may add Platonick ...
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the Doctrine of Mortification , any prejudice to this Affer- tion for neither Afliction nor Mortification are inconfif- tent with the true Happiness of Man . That Affliction is not , the Examples of thofe very Martyrs and Confef- fors ...
the Doctrine of Mortification , any prejudice to this Affer- tion for neither Afliction nor Mortification are inconfif- tent with the true Happiness of Man . That Affliction is not , the Examples of thofe very Martyrs and Confef- fors ...
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... tion and Purifying , as being conscious of the Incongruity , that Unholy Perfons fhould be admitted to Sacred Things . Accordingly Socrates has excellently defin'd the best way of worshipping God to be the doing what he commands ...
... tion and Purifying , as being conscious of the Incongruity , that Unholy Perfons fhould be admitted to Sacred Things . Accordingly Socrates has excellently defin'd the best way of worshipping God to be the doing what he commands ...
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... tion deteft and reject them . ' Tis the faying of the Wise Man , that an angry Countenance driveth away a backbiting Tongue : And certainly , wou'd great Persons look fevere- ly on fuch Defamers of Religion , they would give fome Check ...
... tion deteft and reject them . ' Tis the faying of the Wise Man , that an angry Countenance driveth away a backbiting Tongue : And certainly , wou'd great Persons look fevere- ly on fuch Defamers of Religion , they would give fome Check ...
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... 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 of the World . Alms , Martyrdom , and 46 RELIGION .
... 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 of the World . Alms , Martyrdom , and 46 RELIGION .
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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