The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow: SermonsA. J. Valpy, 1831 - Sermons, English |
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... bear all things with steady calmness and composedness of mind , suppressing those tumults , storms , and excesses of passion , which the sense of things disgustful is apt to excite . 3. We should indeed bear the worst events with a ...
... bear all things with steady calmness and composedness of mind , suppressing those tumults , storms , and excesses of passion , which the sense of things disgustful is apt to excite . 3. We should indeed bear the worst events with a ...
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... bear all things with steady calmness and com- posedness of mind , suppressing or quelling those tumults , those storms , those excesses of passion , which the sense of things disgustful is apt to excite ; such as are immoderate grief ...
... bear all things with steady calmness and com- posedness of mind , suppressing or quelling those tumults , those storms , those excesses of passion , which the sense of things disgustful is apt to excite ; such as are immoderate grief ...
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... bear it : ' reflecting , I say , on these certain points of Christian truth , we should never ' sor- row as those who are without hope ; ' we should never despair of a good riddance from our adversity , when it shall be season- able or ...
... bear it : ' reflecting , I say , on these certain points of Christian truth , we should never ' sor- row as those who are without hope ; ' we should never despair of a good riddance from our adversity , when it shall be season- able or ...
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... bear the same cheerfully ; many would be glad thereof : if therefore we will be content , we must bend our inclinations and adapt our desires to a correspondence with our state . If we are rich , we should get a large and bountiful ...
... bear the same cheerfully ; many would be glad thereof : if therefore we will be content , we must bend our inclinations and adapt our desires to a correspondence with our state . If we are rich , we should get a large and bountiful ...
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... bear any injury or damage ourselves : Better it is , ' saith St. Peter , if the will of God be so , that we suffer for well - doing , than to do ill . ' And , Let them , who suffer according to the will of God , commit the keeping of ...
... bear any injury or damage ourselves : Better it is , ' saith St. Peter , if the will of God be so , that we suffer for well - doing , than to do ill . ' And , Let them , who suffer according to the will of God , commit the keeping of ...
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Page 202 - They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches ; None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him...
Page 15 - Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?
Page 481 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Page 201 - Surely every man walketh in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Page 276 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 83 - For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
Page 377 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Page 82 - For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons ; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not ? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Page 474 - Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing ; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked...
Page 283 - No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.