The Ladies Library: ... Written by a Lady. Published by Sir Richard Steele, Volume 3W. Strahan, 1772 - Conduct of life |
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... those doc- trines of it , concerning God , his nature , and his tranf- actions with his creatures , which are the reasons by which we ftand obliged to render all acts of worship to him . But , for the better understanding the nature of ...
... those doc- trines of it , concerning God , his nature , and his tranf- actions with his creatures , which are the reasons by which we ftand obliged to render all acts of worship to him . But , for the better understanding the nature of ...
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... those doc- trines , and enforces by them . All the doctrines of this religion , upon which it founds its duties , being eternal verities , as they muft neceffarily be , being all deduced from the immutable nature of God and things , all ...
... those doc- trines , and enforces by them . All the doctrines of this religion , upon which it founds its duties , being eternal verities , as they muft neceffarily be , being all deduced from the immutable nature of God and things , all ...
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... those of a meaner rank . They have befides more opportunities afterwards of being built up in the knowledge of their duty , and by the help of an ingenious education , clearer apprehenfions to difcern it ; and when they do fo , have ...
... those of a meaner rank . They have befides more opportunities afterwards of being built up in the knowledge of their duty , and by the help of an ingenious education , clearer apprehenfions to difcern it ; and when they do fo , have ...
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... those of emptiness , fo the mind is oftner vitiated by affluence and profperity , than by indigence and adverfity . It becomes therefore those who are fo furrounded with enemies , to fortify themselves , and that they can no way do but ...
... those of emptiness , fo the mind is oftner vitiated by affluence and profperity , than by indigence and adverfity . It becomes therefore those who are fo furrounded with enemies , to fortify themselves , and that they can no way do but ...
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... those who so pervert their ufe . With what confufion muft they appear at the great audit , who can give no other account of their receipts but that they confumed them upon their lufts , waged war against God with his own treasure , and ...
... those who so pervert their ufe . With what confufion muft they appear at the great audit , who can give no other account of their receipts but that they confumed them upon their lufts , waged war against God with his own treasure , and ...
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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.