A Practical Treatise Concerning Evil Thoughts: ... By William Chilcot, M.A.Samuel Birt; and Edward Score, Exeter, 1734 - 137 pages |
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... Subject of it is undeniably moft Ufeful , and of the greateft Importance to our eternal Welfare : And the more I confider of it , the more I am perfuaded of its Moment . And because it is a Matter of Difficulty too , and requires more ...
... Subject of it is undeniably moft Ufeful , and of the greateft Importance to our eternal Welfare : And the more I confider of it , the more I am perfuaded of its Moment . And because it is a Matter of Difficulty too , and requires more ...
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... Subject which demands more than or- dinary Attention of the Read- er . The Government of the Thoughts is what I intend to discourse on from thefe Words : Which , as it is a Matter of the greatest Importance , fo it is a Thing of no ...
... Subject which demands more than or- dinary Attention of the Read- er . The Government of the Thoughts is what I intend to discourse on from thefe Words : Which , as it is a Matter of the greatest Importance , fo it is a Thing of no ...
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... Subject of the World , or any other of their Vanities , the fame Diffi- culty will attend them to bring their Thoughts into a due Frame again which did at firft . So that they will thereby be mightily hindered in their Advances in ...
... Subject of the World , or any other of their Vanities , the fame Diffi- culty will attend them to bring their Thoughts into a due Frame again which did at firft . So that they will thereby be mightily hindered in their Advances in ...
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... and follow thefe Rules and Directions , which are neceflary to the well - governing our Thoughts . And what they are , is the Subject of the following Chapter . CHAP . TH CHA P. IV . HE Rules and Directions which ( 30 )
... and follow thefe Rules and Directions , which are neceflary to the well - governing our Thoughts . And what they are , is the Subject of the following Chapter . CHAP . TH CHA P. IV . HE Rules and Directions which ( 30 )
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... treat of vile and bafe Subjects , or are any way apt to inftill evil Thoughts or Notions into us . There is hardly any any thing more tends to debauch the Mind than the Reading thing ( 37 ) Name of God is blafphemed, his Being ...
... treat of vile and bafe Subjects , or are any way apt to inftill evil Thoughts or Notions into us . There is hardly any any thing more tends to debauch the Mind than the Reading thing ( 37 ) Name of God is blafphemed, his Being ...
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abfolutely affaulted afflicted alfo Almighty Apoftle avoid bad Company becauſe befides blafphemous Thoughts Bleffed Lord cafe caft Caufe Chrift Chriftian cleanfe Confcience confider Confideration conftant Converfation Corruption Defign Defires defpairing Thoughts Devil Devil's Temptations Devotion Difcourfe difmal doth eafy efpecially endeavour eternal evil Thoughts faid feek felf felves ferve fhall fhew fhould filly foever fome fometimes fore fpeaking fuch Thoughts fuffer fure God's Goodneſs govern greateſt hath Heaven himſelf holy Duties Imaginations impoffible impure itſelf Jefus kind of evil laft leaft lefs ligion Love Luft Melancholy Mind moft moſt muft muſt neceffary nefs obferv'd Obfervation Occafion ourſelves Perfon Pfal pleas'd pleaſe Prayer prefent preferve profane and blafphemous profane Thoughts Promifes Reafon refift reft Religion Saviour Senfes ſhall Sins Soul Spirit Temper thee thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou tion uſe wandring Thoughts well-governing our Thoughts wicked Thoughts worfe World worship
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Page 9 - Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God : for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man : but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Page 6 - But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart, and they defile the man ? 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies ; 20 These are the things which defile a man : but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
Page 121 - So God loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, to the end that all that believe in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Page 51 - If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: "then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord...
Page 70 - God with all my Heart, with all my Soul, and with all my Strength; and honour the King, and all good Men in Authority under him.
Page 98 - but the houfe of God, and this is the gate of heaven !" What a fenfe of God's prefence had Hagar, Gen.
Page 82 - Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown ; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air ; but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection ; lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a cast-away.