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... necessity . For counsels and wise discourses applied to an actual distemper , at the best are but like strong smells to an epileptic person , sometimes they may raise him , but they never cure him . The following rules , if they be made ...
... necessity . For counsels and wise discourses applied to an actual distemper , at the best are but like strong smells to an epileptic person , sometimes they may raise him , but they never cure him . The following rules , if they be made ...
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... necessity , or of small employment , but that it be done by us as God intended it ; that it be done with great earnestness and passion , with much zeal and desire ; that we refuse no labour , that we bestow upon it much time , that we ...
... necessity , or of small employment , but that it be done by us as God intended it ; that it be done with great earnestness and passion , with much zeal and desire ; that we refuse no labour , that we bestow upon it much time , that we ...
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... necessity and the Providence of God hath adopted into the family of religion . And , that we need not fear this instrument to be a snare to us , or that the duty must end in scruple , vex- ation , and eternal fears , we must remember ...
... necessity and the Providence of God hath adopted into the family of religion . And , that we need not fear this instrument to be a snare to us , or that the duty must end in scruple , vex- ation , and eternal fears , we must remember ...
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... necessity , nor charity , obliges us ; all vain meetings , all laborious trifles , and what- soever spends much time to no real , civil , religious , or charitable purpose . 16. Let not your recreations be lavish spenders of your time ...
... necessity , nor charity , obliges us ; all vain meetings , all laborious trifles , and what- soever spends much time to no real , civil , religious , or charitable purpose . 16. Let not your recreations be lavish spenders of your time ...
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... 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. Set apart some portions ...
... 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. Set apart some portions ...
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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.