The Sermons of Mr. Yorick ...J. Dodsley, 1776 |
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... so many mournful paffengers go heavily along , and pafs by his gates , hang- ing down their heads ? Is it for thy Glory , GOD ! that fo large a fhade of mifery should be spread across thy works ? or , Is it that we see but 14 SERMON VIII .
... so many mournful paffengers go heavily along , and pafs by his gates , hang- ing down their heads ? Is it for thy Glory , GOD ! that fo large a fhade of mifery should be spread across thy works ? or , Is it that we see but 14 SERMON VIII .
Page 95
... states , intrigues of courts -- the finding out the paffions and weakneffes of foreign minifters and turning them and all events to their country's glory and advantage . →→→→→ Not fo the little man of this world , who SERMON XI . 95.
... states , intrigues of courts -- the finding out the paffions and weakneffes of foreign minifters and turning them and all events to their country's glory and advantage . →→→→→ Not fo the little man of this world , who SERMON XI . 95.
Page 100
... glory of the in- corruptible God , into an image made . like unto corruptible men , -to birds , - to four - footed leafts and creeping things ; -Profeffing themfelves to be wife , they became fools . --All their fpecious wifdom was but ...
... glory of the in- corruptible God , into an image made . like unto corruptible men , -to birds , - to four - footed leafts and creeping things ; -Profeffing themfelves to be wife , they became fools . --All their fpecious wifdom was but ...
Page 158
... glory in its end -- that it will bring us peace and joy , fuch as the world cannot give . So that upon examining the truth of this affertion , we fhall be fet right in this error , by feeing that a religious man's happiness does not ...
... glory in its end -- that it will bring us peace and joy , fuch as the world cannot give . So that upon examining the truth of this affertion , we fhall be fet right in this error , by feeing that a religious man's happiness does not ...
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... glory and ftrength - unanswerable in all its obligations -- that befides the principal work which it does for us in fecuring our future well - being in the other world , it is likewise the moft effectual means to promote our prefentand ...
... glory and ftrength - unanswerable in all its obligations -- that befides the principal work which it does for us in fecuring our future well - being in the other world , it is likewise the moft effectual means to promote our prefentand ...
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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...