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... , and loft power by your charms ! That ingenuous spirit in all that familiar your behaviour , grace in your words and actions , has for this seven years only infpi- red red admiration and love , but ex- perience has taught DEDICATION .
... , and loft power by your charms ! That ingenuous spirit in all that familiar your behaviour , grace in your words and actions , has for this seven years only infpi- red red admiration and love , but ex- perience has taught 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 , through the power of the 66 Holy Ghoft , Godliness is profitable to all things , having " 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 , through the power of the 66 Holy Ghoft , Godliness is profitable to all things , having " the ...
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... the dignity of human nature , than to have a spirit always prepared for fuch a fervitude ? Befides , even the utmoft fuffering which Christianity VOL . III . C can can at any time require , is outvied daily by RELIGION . 25.
... the dignity of human nature , than to have a spirit always prepared for fuch a fervitude ? Befides , even the utmoft fuffering which Christianity VOL . III . C can can at any time require , is outvied daily by RELIGION . 25.
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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 are heaven itself . For God reigns in the hearts of his fervants , there is his kingdom : The power of grace has fubdued ...
... spirit . Indeed the hearts of holy men and women are temples in the truth of things , and in type and shadow they are heaven itself . For God reigns in the hearts of his fervants , there is his kingdom : The power of grace has fubdued ...
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... spirit to them that ask him ? " The confideration of the divine omnipotence , and infinite wisdom , and of our own ignorance , are great inftruments of curing all doubting , and filencing the murmurs of infidelity . Avoid all curiofity ...
... spirit to them that ask him ? " The confideration of the divine omnipotence , and infinite wisdom , and of our own ignorance , are great inftruments of curing all doubting , and filencing the murmurs of infidelity . Avoid all curiofity ...
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Page 41 - ... us : and if we walk with God in all his ways, as he walks with us in all ours, we shall find perpetual reasons to enable us to keep that rule of God, " Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice.
Page 252 - Finally, brethren, whatfoever things are ' true, whatfoever things are honeft, whatfoever things ' are juft, whatfoever things are pure, whatfoever things ' are lovely, whatfoever things are of good report : If ' there be any virtue, and if there be any praife, think
Page 272 - Jefus the author and finifher of our faith; who for the joy that was fet before him, endured the crofs, defpifing the fhame ; and is fet down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Page 272 - Being encompaffed with a cloud of witnefles, let us lay afide every weight, and the fin which doth fo eafily befet us : and let us run with patience the race that is fet before us...
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 242 - The cup of bleffing which we blefs, is it not the communion of the blood of Chrift? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Chrift ? For we being many are one bread, and one body, for we are all partakers of that one bread.
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 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.