 | rev. John Brougham - Sermons, English - 1813 - 344 pages
...pains to correct, but to love justice and mercy, and to walk humbly before God ; to endeavour quietly to do our duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call us ; and to the end that we may never deviate from the path of virtue unapprized of our danger, the providence... | |
 | Richard Mant - Apologetics - 1813 - 440 pages
...knees, to the neglect of our ordinary business; without a proper attention to which we cannot be doing our duty in that state of life, to which it has pleased God to call us. If however we are not hereby called upon to be always actually praying, we are required to be always... | |
 | Lucy Lyttelton Cameron - 1828 - 140 pages
...as simplicity and singleness of conduct. By this I mean a steady, regular desire to please God, and do our duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call us; and that, whether we gain or lose by the good things of this life, and whether the world approves of... | |
 | Samuel Wilderspin - Education - 1829 - 346 pages
...authority, or create an unwillingness toward useful labour. One of the first duties of Christianity, is to do our duty in that state of life to which it has pleased G God to call us. It is the ignorance or disbelief of this dispensation of providence which is the... | |
 | Samuel Wilderspin - Education - 1832 - 348 pages
...authority, or create an unwillingness toward useful labour., One of the first duties of Christianity, is to do our duty in that state of life to which it has pleased G God to call us. It is the ignorance or disbelief of this dispensation of providence which is the... | |
 | 1840 - 756 pages
...training to fulfil the conditions which society has imposed on social existence, — a preparation " to do our duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call us." Most men have to maintain themselves by their thews and sinews : their bodies, therefore, must be educated... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - English literature - 1840 - 722 pages
...training to fulfil the conditions which society has imposed on social existence, — a preparation " to do our duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call us." Most men hare to maintain themselves by their thews and sinews : their bodies, therefore, must be educated... | |
 | 1843
...spirit of contentment ; which, while affording every scope for diligence in business, and the doing of our duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call us, excludes all over- anxious care or intemperate endeavours, and every thing approaching to rivalry,... | |
 | James Hudson (churchwarden of Ware.) - 1843 - 32 pages
...to without disgust; Has not God himself said, " there is a time for all things ?" Are we not desired to do our duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call us, plainly declaring to us also in many parts of the Scriptures, that we are expected faithfully to discharge... | |
 | Frederick Marryat - Adventure stories - 1846 - 512 pages
...feeling that our happiness may be increased. We have, however, a plain precept to follow, which is, to do our duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call us." " Yes, my dear husband," replied Mrs. Seagrave ; " I feel the truth of all you have just said. We are... | |
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We have, however, a plain precept to follow, which is, to do our duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call us. 
