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... OBSERVE order in your amusements ; that is , allow them no more than their pro- per place ; study to keep them within due bounds ; mingle them in a temperate suc- cession with serious duties , and the higher business SERMON business of ...
... OBSERVE order in your amusements ; that is , allow them no more than their pro- per place ; study to keep them within due bounds ; mingle them in a temperate suc- cession with serious duties , and the higher business SERMON business of ...
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... observation , which never slumbers nor sleeps . Behold a pen always writing over your head , and making up that great re- cord of your thoughts , words , and actions , from which at last you are to be judged . Think that you are never ...
... observation , which never slumbers nor sleeps . Behold a pen always writing over your head , and making up that great re- cord of your thoughts , words , and actions , from which at last you are to be judged . Think that you are never ...
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... observe an error , without imputing it as a crime . Thus you will be kept free from that continual irritation which imaginary injuries raise in a suspicious breast ; and will walk among men as your brethren , not your enemies . But to ...
... observe an error , without imputing it as a crime . Thus you will be kept free from that continual irritation which imaginary injuries raise in a suspicious breast ; and will walk among men as your brethren , not your enemies . But to ...
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... observation . Amidst our pre- sent ignorance of what is good or ill for us in this life , it is sufficient for us to know , that the immediate administration of uni- versal government is placed in the hands of the most attentive and ...
... observation . Amidst our pre- sent ignorance of what is good or ill for us in this life , it is sufficient for us to know , that the immediate administration of uni- versal government is placed in the hands of the most attentive and ...
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... observe , that it is entitled to no more than our secondary regard . It has its boun- dary set ; by transgressing which , it is at once transformed from an innocent into a most dangerous passion . More sacred and venerable principles ...
... observe , that it is entitled to no more than our secondary regard . It has its boun- dary set ; by transgressing which , it is at once transformed from an innocent into a most dangerous passion . More sacred and venerable principles ...
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Page 188 - But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Page 121 - Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need
Page vii - It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Page 127 - Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more ? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?
Page 105 - Hath he said, and shall he not do it ? Hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good...
Page 211 - I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave : I am deprived of the residue of my years. I said, I shall not see the LORD, Even the LORD, in the land of the living : I shall behold man no more With the inhabitants of the world.
Page 220 - I am the Resurrection, and the Life : he that believeth on Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live : and whosoever liveth and believeth in
Page vii - And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord ? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child. And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?
Page 295 - Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
Page 381 - By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent...