The Ladies Library: ... Written by a Lady. Published by Sir Richard Steele, Volume 3W. Strahan, 1772 - Conduct of life |
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... thought by the light of nature subservient to our true happiness . Hierocles in the beginning of his divine comments , gives us a fhort but full account of the Pythagorean , 66 Pythagorean , and , I may add , Platonick 12 RELIGION .
... thought by the light of nature subservient to our true happiness . Hierocles in the beginning of his divine comments , gives us a fhort but full account of the Pythagorean , 66 Pythagorean , and , I may add , Platonick 12 RELIGION .
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... thought to have felected fome perfons as the objects of his bounty , merely that they may fwill and glut themfelves with fenfual pleasures . No , doubtlefs , he that is the great mafter of the univerfe , difpofes all things for com- mon ...
... thought to have felected fome perfons as the objects of his bounty , merely that they may fwill and glut themfelves with fenfual pleasures . No , doubtlefs , he that is the great mafter of the univerfe , difpofes all things for com- mon ...
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... thought themselves too great to pay him homage , and by their profane and vicious example induced a con- tempt of him ? In fhort , what a retaliation of invafions will there then be ? Those that have turned his grace into wantonness ...
... thought themselves too great to pay him homage , and by their profane and vicious example induced a con- tempt of him ? In fhort , what a retaliation of invafions will there then be ? Those that have turned his grace into wantonness ...
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... thought fit to influ- ence none that are great either in parts or quality . And therefore though too many are willing to appropriate it to women upon the first account , as " the gofpel is the " foolishness of preaching ; " yet they ...
... thought fit to influ- ence none that are great either in parts or quality . And therefore though too many are willing to appropriate it to women upon the first account , as " the gofpel is the " foolishness of preaching ; " yet they ...
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... thought they run far enough from Atheism , but rather chofe to multiply their gods , to have too many than none at all . They were even apt to de- fcend to the adoration of things below themselves , ra- ther than to renounce the power ...
... thought they run far enough from Atheism , but rather chofe to multiply their gods , to have too many than none at all . They were even apt to de- fcend to the adoration of things below themselves , ra- ther than to renounce the power ...
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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.