The Ladies Library: ... Written by a Lady. Published by Sir Richard Steele, Volume 3W. Strahan, 1772 - Conduct of life |
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... affairs , your chearfulness in dispatch of them , your prudent forbearance of any reflexions that they might have needed less vigilance had you difpofed disposed of your fortune fuitably ; in fhort , for DEDICATION .
... affairs , your chearfulness in dispatch of them , your prudent forbearance of any reflexions that they might have needed less vigilance had you difpofed disposed of your fortune fuitably ; in fhort , for DEDICATION .
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... less than infinite , and therefore not easily to be fatisfied without effecting it . Let no man despair of God's mercies to forgive him , unless he be sure that his fins be greater than God's mer- cies : if they be not , we have much ...
... less than infinite , and therefore not easily to be fatisfied without effecting it . Let no man despair of God's mercies to forgive him , unless he be sure that his fins be greater than God's mer- cies : if they be not , we have much ...
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... less pleasant than profitable to the faints of God . By this means they have their converfation always in heaven , there folacing their fouls in the contemplation of divine VOL . III . E perfec- perfections . As the luftful man is ...
... less pleasant than profitable to the faints of God . By this means they have their converfation always in heaven , there folacing their fouls in the contemplation of divine VOL . III . E perfec- perfections . As the luftful man is ...
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... less than that of our being , which is the cafe between us and God . And this is fuch a benefit , as is fufficient to entitle him to us , by an abfolute and un- alienable property , tho ' he had no antecedent right of dominion over us ...
... less than that of our being , which is the cafe between us and God . And this is fuch a benefit , as is fufficient to entitle him to us , by an abfolute and un- alienable property , tho ' he had no antecedent right of dominion over us ...
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... less neceffary that all thofe rights which they confer should be inviolably preserved ; and whoever knowingly or wilfully takes away , or detains from another , what he is thus intitled to by law or agreement , is guilty either of a ...
... less neceffary that all thofe rights which they confer should be inviolably preserved ; and whoever knowingly or wilfully takes away , or detains from another , what he is thus intitled to by law or agreement , is guilty either of a ...
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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.