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... useful , and fitted for the best and worst understand- ings , and for the needs of all men , yet ) I shall desire the reader to proceed with the following advices . 1. They that will with profit make use of the THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY . vii.
... useful , and fitted for the best and worst understand- ings , and for the needs of all men , yet ) I shall desire the reader to proceed with the following advices . 1. They that will with profit make use of the THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY . vii.
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... desire you would own it for an acknowledgment ) of those great endearments and noblest usages you have past upon me . But so , men in their religion give a piece of gum , or the fat of a cheap lamb , in sacrifice to him that gives them ...
... desire you would own it for an acknowledgment ) of those great endearments and noblest usages you have past upon me . But so , men in their religion give a piece of gum , or the fat of a cheap lamb , in sacrifice to him that gives them ...
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... desire ; that we refuse no labour , that we bestow upon it much time , that we use the best guides , and arrive at the end of glory by all the ways of grace , of prudence , and religion . And , indeed , if we consider how much of our ...
... desire ; that we refuse no labour , that we bestow upon it much time , that we use the best guides , and arrive at the end of glory by all the ways of grace , of prudence , and religion . And , indeed , if we consider how much of our ...
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... desire to glorify and save mankind , would make the very works of nature capable of be- coming acts of virtue , that all our life - time we may do him service . This grace is so excellent , that it sanctifies the most common actions of ...
... desire to glorify and save mankind , would make the very works of nature capable of be- coming acts of virtue , that all our life - time we may do him service . This grace is so excellent , that it sanctifies the most common actions of ...
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... desire no greater than our necessity ; and that in actions of religion we be zea- lous , active , and operative , so far as prudence will per- mit ; but in all cases , that we value a religious design before a temporal , when otherwise ...
... desire no greater than our necessity ; and that in actions of religion we be zea- lous , active , and operative , so far as prudence will per- mit ; but in all cases , that we value a religious design before a temporal , when otherwise ...
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Page 80 - And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares ; for as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
Page 30 - Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him ? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth ? saith the Lord.
Page 139 - I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting ; in like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety, not with broidered hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array, but (which becometh women professing godliness,) with good works.
Page 226 - That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
Page 437 - The lions do lack, and suffer hunger ; but they who seek the LORD shall want no manner of thing that is good.
Page 393 - And this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us ; and if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
Page 61 - Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
Page 64 - But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat; the earth also, and the works that are therein, shall be burnt up.
Page 176 - Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Page i - TAYLOR'S (Bishop Jeremy) Holy Living and Dying, with Prayers, containing the Whole Duty of a Christian and the parts of Devotion fitted to all Occasions.