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... mind them . The poor are designed to excite our liberality ; the miserable , our pity ; the sick , our assistance ; the ignorant , our instruction ; those that are fallen , our helping hand . In those that are vain , we see the vanity ...
... mind them . The poor are designed to excite our liberality ; the miserable , our pity ; the sick , our assistance ; the ignorant , our instruction ; those that are fallen , our helping hand . In those that are vain , we see the vanity ...
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... mind when it should be better employed . Never intermit devotion , if you can help it ; you will return to your duty , like Samson , when his locks were cut , weak and indifferent as other people of the world . The oftener we renew our ...
... mind when it should be better employed . Never intermit devotion , if you can help it ; you will return to your duty , like Samson , when his locks were cut , weak and indifferent as other people of the world . The oftener we renew our ...
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... mind wander too much at other times ; but to have God always in our minds in the whole course of our lives . The end of prayer is not to in- form God , but to give man a sight of his own misery ; to raise his soul towards heaven , and ...
... mind wander too much at other times ; but to have God always in our minds in the whole course of our lives . The end of prayer is not to in- form God , but to give man a sight of his own misery ; to raise his soul towards heaven , and ...
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... mind . Let your prayers be as particular as may be , against the sins of your particular state , and for the graces which you in particular do most stand in need of . This is the best preservative against sin ; makes us best acquainted ...
... mind . Let your prayers be as particular as may be , against the sins of your particular state , and for the graces which you in particular do most stand in need of . This is the best preservative against sin ; makes us best acquainted ...
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... mind ; and thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself . " O that this love of God may be the commanding principle of my soul ! May I always have this com fortable proof of his love abiding in me , that I study to please Him and to keep ...
... mind ; and thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself . " O that this love of God may be the commanding principle of my soul ! May I always have this com fortable proof of his love abiding in me , that I study to please Him and to keep ...
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Page 52 - Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
Page 175 - God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; by pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left...
Page 87 - For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it ? Lest haply after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish...
Page 175 - ... as unknown, and yet well known ; as dying, and, behold, we live ; as chastened, and not killed ; as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing ; as poor, yet making many rich ; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Page 238 - Behold I stand at the door, and knock : if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him and will sup with him, and he with me.
Page 119 - Enter ye in at the strait gate : for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat : because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it...
Page 288 - And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
Page 193 - ... if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon-day : and the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones : and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Page 211 - LOOKING UNTO JESUS THE AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF OUR FAITH ; WHO FOR THE JOY THAT WAS SET BEFORE HIM ENDURED THE CROSS, DESPISING THE SHAME, AND IS SET DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE THRONE OF GOD. FOR CONSIDER HIM THAT ENDURED SUCH CONTRADICTION OF SINNERS AGAINST HIMSELF, LEST YE BE WEARIED AND FAINT IN YOUR MINDS.
Page 31 - Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.