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... miserable , if their education hath been so loose and undisciplined as to leave them unfurnished of skill to spend their time : but most miserable are they , if such misgovernment and unskilfulness make them fall into viscious and baser ...
... miserable , if their education hath been so loose and undisciplined as to leave them unfurnished of skill to spend their time : but most miserable are they , if such misgovernment and unskilfulness make them fall into viscious and baser ...
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... miserable and wretched , nor my name stained with sin and shame , nor my condition lifted up to a tempting and dangerous fortune ; but let my condi- tion be blessed , my conversation useful to my neigh- bours , and pleasing to thee ...
... miserable and wretched , nor my name stained with sin and shame , nor my condition lifted up to a tempting and dangerous fortune ; but let my condi- tion be blessed , my conversation useful to my neigh- bours , and pleasing to thee ...
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... miserable : and pos- sibly this exercise , really applied upon thy spirit , may be useful . 2. Remember that we usually disparage others upon slight grounds and little instances ; and towards them one fly is enough to spoil a whole box ...
... miserable : and pos- sibly this exercise , really applied upon thy spirit , may be useful . 2. Remember that we usually disparage others upon slight grounds and little instances ; and towards them one fly is enough to spoil a whole box ...
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... miserable , but it cannot prevent what another hath in his power and purpose : and prosperities can only be enjoyed by them who fear not at all to lose them , since the amazement and passion concerning the fu- * Phil . iv . 11 , 12. 1 ...
... miserable , but it cannot prevent what another hath in his power and purpose : and prosperities can only be enjoyed by them who fear not at all to lose them , since the amazement and passion concerning the fu- * Phil . iv . 11 , 12. 1 ...
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... miserable , unless it be unreasonable . No man can make another man to be his slave unless he hath first enslaved himself to life and death , to pleasure or pain , to hope or fear : command these passions , and freer than the Parthian ...
... miserable , unless it be unreasonable . No man can make another man to be his slave unless he hath first enslaved himself to life and death , to pleasure or pain , to hope or fear : command these passions , and freer than the Parthian ...
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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.