A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians: In the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. By William Wilberforce, ... |
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... religion fo much with a view to its political effects CHAP . VII . p . 434 . -432-3 Practical Hints to various Defcriptions of Perfons . The common fort of Chriftianity does not deferve the name 434-5 Some confiderations preparatory to ...
... religion fo much with a view to its political effects CHAP . VII . p . 434 . -432-3 Practical Hints to various Defcriptions of Perfons . The common fort of Chriftianity does not deferve the name 434-5 Some confiderations preparatory to ...
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... religion than mer ; domeftic advantages therefrom - 445-7 Innocent young people , the term how much abufed 447-9 The reformation held fufficient by the world , how much it falls fhort of true Chriftian regeneration · - 449-52 Practical ...
... religion than mer ; domeftic advantages therefrom - 445-7 Innocent young people , the term how much abufed 447-9 The reformation held fufficient by the world , how much it falls fhort of true Chriftian regeneration · - 449-52 Practical ...
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... religion , he chiefly afcribes our national misfortunes , and that his best hopes are grounded on the perfuafion , that we have among us many real Chriftians 500 Motives which have powerfully prompted the author to the profecution of ...
... religion , he chiefly afcribes our national misfortunes , and that his best hopes are grounded on the perfuafion , that we have among us many real Chriftians 500 Motives which have powerfully prompted the author to the profecution of ...
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... Religion is the bufinefs of every one , but that its advance- ment or decline in any country is fo inti- mately connected with the temporal inte- rests of fociety , as to render it the peculiar concern of a political man ; and that what ...
... Religion is the bufinefs of every one , but that its advance- ment or decline in any country is fo inti- mately connected with the temporal inte- rests of fociety , as to render it the peculiar concern of a political man ; and that what ...
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... Religion ; but to point out the fcanty and erroneous fyftem of the bulk of those who belong to the clafs of orthodox Chriftians , and to contraft their defective scheme with a reprefentation of what the author apprehends to be real ...
... Religion ; but to point out the fcanty and erroneous fyftem of the bulk of those who belong to the clafs of orthodox Chriftians , and to contraft their defective scheme with a reprefentation of what the author apprehends to be real ...
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Page 390 - Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.
Page 42 - Because I have called and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded ; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity: I will mock when your fear cometh ; When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me...
Page 56 - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God : but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Page 444 - Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die. For I have not found thy works perfect before God.
Page 57 - What better can we do, than, to the place Repairing where he judged us, prostrate fall Before him reverent, and there confess Humbly our faults, and pardon beg, with tears Watering the ground, and with our sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite, in sign Of sorrow unfeign'd and humiliation meek?
Page 159 - Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches : but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth Me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth : for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.
Page 351 - From thee is all that soothes the life of man, His high endeavour, and his glad success, His strength to suffer, and his will to serve. But, O thou bounteous giver of all good, Thou art of all thy gifts thyself the crown ! Give what thou canst, without thee we are poor ; And with thee rich, take what thou wilt away.
Page 106 - in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Page 31 - ... of doing well we utterly renounce. We see how far we are from the perfect righteousness of the Law ; the little fruit which we have in holiness, it is, God knoweth, corrupt and unsound : we put no confidence at all in it, we challenge nothing in the world for it, we dare not call God to reckoning, as if we had him in our debtbooks : our continual suit to him is, and must be, to bear with our infirmities, and pardon our offences.
Page 329 - He that abideth in me, and I in him, the fame bringeth forth much fruit : for without me ye can do nothing.