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... 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- cations of any exterior adherences . For though ...
... 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- cations of any exterior adherences . For though ...
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... soul , as men use to take hellebore ; but they must dwell together with the spirit of a man , and be twisted about his understanding for ever : they must be used like nourishment , that is , by a daily care and medita- tion : not like a ...
... soul , as men use to take hellebore ; but they must dwell together with the spirit of a man , and be twisted about his understanding for ever : they must be used like nourishment , that is , by a daily care and medita- tion : not like a ...
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... soul , it alone is able to do all the work of God . 3. Be not nice in stating the obligations of religion ; but where the duty is necessary , and the means very reasonable in itself , dispute not too busily whether in all circumstances ...
... soul , it alone is able to do all the work of God . 3. Be not nice in stating the obligations of religion ; but where the duty is necessary , and the means very reasonable in itself , dispute not too busily whether in all circumstances ...
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... soul . Con- cerning the management of which , as the interest is greater so the necessities are more , and the cases more intricate , and the accidents and dangers greater and more importunate ; and there is greater skill re- quired ...
... soul . Con- cerning the management of which , as the interest is greater so the necessities are more , and the cases more intricate , and the accidents and dangers greater and more importunate ; and there is greater skill re- quired ...
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... soul , and an immortal spirit , having made him Lord over the beasts , and but a little lower than the angels ; he hath also appointed for him a work and a service great enough to employ those abilities , and hath also designed him to a ...
... soul , and an immortal spirit , having made him Lord over the beasts , and but a little lower than the angels ; he hath also appointed for him a work and a service great enough to employ those abilities , and hath also designed him to a ...
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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.