A Practical Treatise Concerning Evil Thoughts: ... By William Chilcot, M.A.Samuel Birt; and Edward Score, Exeter, 1734 - 137 pages |
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... doth so often and fo feverely rebuke them ; particularly here , where after he had given them fuch an Anfwer as he did , he expofeth and lay- eth them open to the People , and cenfures the Vanity and Hypocrify of all their re- ligous ...
... doth so often and fo feverely rebuke them ; particularly here , where after he had given them fuch an Anfwer as he did , he expofeth and lay- eth them open to the People , and cenfures the Vanity and Hypocrify of all their re- ligous ...
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... doth are broken and imperfect ; and he is apt every now and then to make fresh Work for Repen- tance , by returning to his old Sins . But this Advantage of the well - governing our Thoughts will be the better feen by fome Particulars ...
... doth are broken and imperfect ; and he is apt every now and then to make fresh Work for Repen- tance , by returning to his old Sins . But this Advantage of the well - governing our Thoughts will be the better feen by fome Particulars ...
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... doth not take any notice of his Thoughts themselves ? Suppofe it were in the Power of any Perfon to act contrary to his Habit of Thinking , and to avoid the Practice of those Sins which he in- dulges himself in the Speculation_of : Hath ...
... doth not take any notice of his Thoughts themselves ? Suppofe it were in the Power of any Perfon to act contrary to his Habit of Thinking , and to avoid the Practice of those Sins which he in- dulges himself in the Speculation_of : Hath ...
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... doth . The greateft part of our Trou- ble and Perturbation proceeds from Want of a due Care of , and Watchfulness over our Thoughts . And many times our Troubles are fo great that they convince us of the abfolute Neceflity of this Duty ...
... doth . The greateft part of our Trou- ble and Perturbation proceeds from Want of a due Care of , and Watchfulness over our Thoughts . And many times our Troubles are fo great that they convince us of the abfolute Neceflity of this Duty ...
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... doth he always carry about with him ? ' Tis not an open Enemy , but a familiar Friend , that doth him the greateft Hurt and Dishonour . The Snake is lurking in his own Breaft ; and while he is looking and gazing abroad , this moft ...
... doth he always carry about with him ? ' Tis not an open Enemy , but a familiar Friend , that doth him the greateft Hurt and Dishonour . The Snake is lurking in his own Breaft ; and while he is looking and gazing abroad , this moft ...
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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.