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... respecting it are very confused . Perhaps your preponderating conviction is- " Religion is a very good thing ; but it will be time enough to give it serious attention at a future period . While the spring of life lasts , we will pluck ...
... respecting it are very confused . Perhaps your preponderating conviction is- " Religion is a very good thing ; but it will be time enough to give it serious attention at a future period . While the spring of life lasts , we will pluck ...
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... respecting the future , lead us , among other results , to neglect the due improvement of the present ? : 2. Human Life is a mingled scene . It is idle work to draw a picture of mere darkness and dis- : tress for life undoubtedly has ...
... respecting the future , lead us , among other results , to neglect the due improvement of the present ? : 2. Human Life is a mingled scene . It is idle work to draw a picture of mere darkness and dis- : tress for life undoubtedly has ...
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... respecting toil , the yoke of duty cannot be shaken off . You are , and you always will be , the creatures of moral obliga- tion ; the creatures of duty : and duty implies ac- tivity . There are duties which we owe to God , to man , and ...
... respecting toil , the yoke of duty cannot be shaken off . You are , and you always will be , the creatures of moral obliga- tion ; the creatures of duty : and duty implies ac- tivity . There are duties which we owe to God , to man , and ...
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... respecting it . Do not say that I am strict and gloomy , and that young per- sons have no business to damp their spirits , or to diminish their pleasures , by such grave consider- ations . I treat you as rational creatures . I call upon ...
... respecting it . Do not say that I am strict and gloomy , and that young per- sons have no business to damp their spirits , or to diminish their pleasures , by such grave consider- ations . I treat you as rational creatures . I call upon ...
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... respecting human life , and act in agreement with it . Help me to look upon it as the only season granted me in which the faults of my nature may be removed , and peace with Thee secured , by the true acceptance of Christ through faith ...
... respecting human life , and act in agreement with it . Help me to look upon it as the only season granted me in which the faults of my nature may be removed , and peace with Thee secured , by the true acceptance of Christ through faith ...
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Page 155 - Henceforth I learn, that to obey is best, And love, with fear, the only God ; to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...
Page 7 - PREVENT us, O Lord, in all our doings with thy most gracious favour, and further us with thy continual help ; that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in thee, we may glorify thy holy name, and finally by thy mercy obtain everlasting life, through, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Page 254 - There are in this loud stunning tide Of human care and crime, ;'-. With whom the melodies abide Of th' everlasting chime ; Who carry music in their heart Through dusky lane and wrangling mart, Plying their daily task with busier feet, Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat.
Page 140 - Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt : for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward.
Page 214 - Lest haply after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
Page 71 - Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Page 284 - O ALMIGHTY Lord, and everlasting God, vouchsafe, we beseech thee, to direct, sanctify, and govern, both our hearts and bodies, in the ways of thy laws, and in the works of thy commandments...
Page 169 - ALMIGHTY and everlasting GOD, who art always more ready to hear than we to pray, and art wont to give more than either we desire or deserve ; pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy, forgiving us those things whereof our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things which we are not worthy to ask, but through the merits and mediation of JESUS CHRIST thy Son our Lord.
Page 140 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 87 - So only can high justice rest appaid. The law of God exact he shall fulfil Both by obedience and by love, though love Alone fulfil the law; thy punishment He shall endure, by coming in the flesh To a reproachful life and cursed death...