A Practical Treatise Concerning Evil Thoughts: ... By William Chilcot, M.A.Samuel Birt; and Edward Score, Exeter, 1734 - 137 pages |
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... mean Thoughts of him indeed ; and make Re- ligion degenerate into the Service of brute Beafts . For wherein doth Man differ from them but in his Reafon and Thought ? and that he is capable of knowing God ; of being ravish'd with his ...
... mean Thoughts of him indeed ; and make Re- ligion degenerate into the Service of brute Beafts . For wherein doth Man differ from them but in his Reafon and Thought ? and that he is capable of knowing God ; of being ravish'd with his ...
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... further fenfible of the great Advantage of well - governing our Thoughts , is this , viz . That we shall ever be in a Preparation for the best and most weighty Duties by this means . · means . We fhall not only be able to ( 15 )
... further fenfible of the great Advantage of well - governing our Thoughts , is this , viz . That we shall ever be in a Preparation for the best and most weighty Duties by this means . · means . We fhall not only be able to ( 15 )
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William Chilcot. · means . We fhall not only be able to re- fift and repel the Fury of Temptations , but be ready for the Performance of every Duty . Thofe Men that have fot inur'd themselves to an Habit of Thought , and conftantly ...
William Chilcot. · means . We fhall not only be able to re- fift and repel the Fury of Temptations , but be ready for the Performance of every Duty . Thofe Men that have fot inur'd themselves to an Habit of Thought , and conftantly ...
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... and that the main end of Religion is an internal Change and Purification of the Heart and Soul , of all the Thoughts and Imaginations . And now an excellent means to difpel this Ignorance , is s this Rule , which I am preffing you to ( 44 )
... and that the main end of Religion is an internal Change and Purification of the Heart and Soul , of all the Thoughts and Imaginations . And now an excellent means to difpel this Ignorance , is s this Rule , which I am preffing you to ( 44 )
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... Means in order to that great End , which is the Scope of this Treatise . There is no preserving a Castle or For- trefs from being taken by the Enemy , but by having a special care of the Avenues and Breaches . Now the Senfes are , as it ...
... Means in order to that great End , which is the Scope of this Treatise . There is no preserving a Castle or For- trefs from being taken by the Enemy , but by having a special care of the Avenues and Breaches . Now the Senfes are , as it ...
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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.