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... give sentence concerning the state of his own soul by the precepts and rules of our Law - giver ; not by the after decrees and usages of the Church ; that is , by the essential parts of religion , rather than by the uncertain signifi ...
... give sentence concerning the state of his own soul by the precepts and rules of our Law - giver ; not by the after decrees and usages of the Church ; that is , by the essential parts of religion , rather than by the uncertain signifi ...
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... gives alms does best , not always to consider the minutes and strict measures of his ability , but to give freely , incuriously , and abundantly . A man must not weigh grains in the accounts of his re- pentance ; but for a great sin ...
... gives alms does best , not always to consider the minutes and strict measures of his ability , but to give freely , incuriously , and abundantly . A man must not weigh grains in the accounts of his re- pentance ; but for a great sin ...
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... give a piece of gum , or the fat of a cheap lamb , in sacrifice to him that gives them all that they have or need : and unless he who was pleased to employ your Lordship as a great minister of his providence in making a promise of his ...
... give a piece of gum , or the fat of a cheap lamb , in sacrifice to him that gives them all that they have or need : and unless he who was pleased to employ your Lordship as a great minister of his providence in making a promise of his ...
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... give to God , the more we treasure up for ourselves ; and no man is a better merchant than he that lays out his time upon God , and his money upon the poor . 2. Only it becometh us to remember and to adore God's goodness for it , that ...
... give to God , the more we treasure up for ourselves ; and no man is a better merchant than he that lays out his time upon God , and his money upon the poor . 2. Only it becometh us to remember and to adore God's goodness for it , that ...
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... give thy time . Natural necessity and the example of St. John ( who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge ) teach us that it is law- ful to relax and unbend our bow , but not to suffer it to be unready or unstrung . 17 ...
... give thy time . Natural necessity and the example of St. John ( who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge ) teach us that it is law- ful to relax and unbend our bow , but not to suffer it to be unready or unstrung . 17 ...
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Popular passages
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.