The Sermons of Mr. Yorick ...J. Dodsley, 1776 |
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... bring this matter ftill clofer to us , let us imagine , if there is nothing unworthy in it , that Gon , in compliance with a curious world , or from a better motive , —— in compaffion to a finful one , fhould vouchfafe to fend one from ...
... bring this matter ftill clofer to us , let us imagine , if there is nothing unworthy in it , that Gon , in compliance with a curious world , or from a better motive , —— in compaffion to a finful one , fhould vouchfafe to fend one from ...
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... like your propofition , before it can be relifhed ; and ' tis the resemblance be tween them , which brings over his judgment , and makes him an evidence on your fide . > " Tis therefore not to the cruel , ' 26 SERMON VIII .
... like your propofition , before it can be relifhed ; and ' tis the resemblance be tween them , which brings over his judgment , and makes him an evidence on your fide . > " Tis therefore not to the cruel , ' 26 SERMON VIII .
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... bring tears into fo many eyes ? -Hast thou ever been wounded in a more affecting manner ftill , by the lofs of a most obliging friend , -or been torn away from the embraces of a dear and promifing child by the ftroke of death ? -bitter ...
... bring tears into fo many eyes ? -Hast thou ever been wounded in a more affecting manner ftill , by the lofs of a most obliging friend , -or been torn away from the embraces of a dear and promifing child by the ftroke of death ? -bitter ...
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... bring me down , and make me go on my way forrowing . This is from the nature of things , and the experience of life as far back as Solomon , whofe obfervation upon it was the fame , -- and it will ever hold good , that before honour was ...
... bring me down , and make me go on my way forrowing . This is from the nature of things , and the experience of life as far back as Solomon , whofe obfervation upon it was the fame , -- and it will ever hold good , that before honour was ...
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... bring it about . Confider a moment , What is it the proud man aims at ? -- -Why , -fuch a measure of refpect and de- ference , as is due to his fuperior me- rit , & c . & c . Now , good fenfe and a knowledge of the world 48 SERMON IX .
... bring it about . Confider a moment , What is it the proud man aims at ? -- -Why , -fuch a measure of refpect and de- ference , as is due to his fuperior me- rit , & c . & c . Now , good fenfe and a knowledge of the world 48 SERMON IX .
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Page 170 - The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Page 184 - For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.
Page 150 - Tis all nature can bear. — Good GOD ! see how it keeps his weary soul hanging upon his trembling lips, willing to take its leave, but not suffered to depart. Behold the unhappy wretch led back to his cell...
Page 185 - FOR our converfation is in heaven ; from whence alfo we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jefus Chrift ; who fhall change our vile body, that it may be fafhioned like unto His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able even to fubdue all things unto Himfelf.— From tfc Epijile.
Page 139 - BLESSED IS THE MAN THAT HATH NOT SLIPPED WITH HIS MOUTH, and is not pricked with the multitude of sins. Blessed is he whose conscience hath not condemned him, and who is not fallen from his hope in the Lord.
Page 3 - And he faid unto him, If they hear not Mofes and the prophets, neither will they be perfuaded, though one rofe from the dead.
Page 185 - Chrift, who fhall change our vile body, that it may be fafliioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able to fubdue all things unto him. — It is obfervable, that St. Peter reprefents the ftate of Chriftians, under the fame image of ftrangers on earth, whofe city and proper home is heaven : — he makes ufe of that relation of citizens of heaven, as a ftrong argument for a pure and holy life...