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... attain and improve it ; and very many of the Sins and Follies of Mankind , as they do in a great measure proceed from the want of an attentive and feri- ous Confideration of it ; fo would they be in a great mea- fure cured by it . It is ...
... attain and improve it ; and very many of the Sins and Follies of Mankind , as they do in a great measure proceed from the want of an attentive and feri- ous Confideration of it ; fo would they be in a great mea- fure cured by it . It is ...
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... attain to any confiderable Age ; and the weekly Bills of Mortality in this great City , where weekly there are taken away ordinarily three hundred Perfons : The Monuments and Graves in every Church and Church - yard do not only evince ...
... attain to any confiderable Age ; and the weekly Bills of Mortality in this great City , where weekly there are taken away ordinarily three hundred Perfons : The Monuments and Graves in every Church and Church - yard do not only evince ...
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... attain it ; commonly thofe that are the greateft pretenders to Wisdom , and the fearch after it , place it in fome little narrow concern , but place it not in its true Latitude commenfurate to the Nature of Mankind : And hence it is ...
... attain it ; commonly thofe that are the greateft pretenders to Wisdom , and the fearch after it , place it in fome little narrow concern , but place it not in its true Latitude commenfurate to the Nature of Mankind : And hence it is ...
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... attain it . To Man he faid , To fear God that is Wisdom that is , it is the proper and adequate Wisdom fuitable to humane Nature , and to the Condition of Man- kind : And we need not doubt but it is fo , because he that best knew what ...
... attain it . To Man he faid , To fear God that is Wisdom that is , it is the proper and adequate Wisdom fuitable to humane Nature , and to the Condition of Man- kind : And we need not doubt but it is fo , because he that best knew what ...
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... attain everlafting ' Life and Happiness , and , even in this prefent Life , fhall ' have the influence and prefence of my Favour , to fup- port , to direct and blefs you : On the other fide , if you refufe my Fear , and reject my ...
... attain everlafting ' Life and Happiness , and , even in this prefent Life , fhall ' have the influence and prefence of my Favour , to fup- port , to direct and blefs you : On the other fide , if you refufe my Fear , and reject my ...
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