The Sermons of Mr. Yorick ...J. Dodsley, 1776 |
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... his ergovernment , he would convince --- us , ' twould be impoffible for the wit mof man to frame any proposals more for our present interefts , than to lead an uncorrupted life - to do the thing . which B 3 SERMONя VII . $
... his ergovernment , he would convince --- us , ' twould be impoffible for the wit mof man to frame any proposals more for our present interefts , than to lead an uncorrupted life - to do the thing . which B 3 SERMONя VII . $
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... present intereft or quiet ; all which a man may learn to practife od well enough , and yet at the fame time be a perfect ftranger to the beft part of humility , which implies not a con- cealment of Pride , but an absolute conqueft over ...
... present intereft or quiet ; all which a man may learn to practife od well enough , and yet at the fame time be a perfect ftranger to the beft part of humility , which implies not a con- cealment of Pride , but an absolute conqueft over ...
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... present and indeed fo infeparable from him , as to be felt and tasted every hour - and of this even the vi- cious can hardly be infenfible , from what he may perceive to fpring up in his mind , from any cafual act of virtue . And tho it ...
... present and indeed fo infeparable from him , as to be felt and tasted every hour - and of this even the vi- cious can hardly be infenfible , from what he may perceive to fpring up in his mind , from any cafual act of virtue . And tho it ...
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... . However men may differ in their opinions of the usefulness of virtue for our present purposes , no one was ever fo ab- - furd , as to deny it ferved our best 2 and our laft intereft , -when the little interefts of SERMON XIII . 173.
... . However men may differ in their opinions of the usefulness of virtue for our present purposes , no one was ever fo ab- - furd , as to deny it ferved our best 2 and our laft intereft , -when the little interefts of SERMON XIII . 173.
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... present world , as the only way to entitle us to that bleffednefs fpoken of in the Revelations of those who do his commandments , and have a right to the tree of life , and fhall enter into the gates of the city of the living God , the ...
... present world , as the only way to entitle us to that bleffednefs fpoken of in the Revelations of those who do his commandments , and have a right to the tree of life , and fhall enter into the gates of the city of the living God , the ...
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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...