The Truth and Safety of the Christian Religion Deduced from Reason and Revelation: A Series of Sermons Preached at Kew and Petersham in the Years 1773 and 1774 |
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... friendship or applause , or even admiffion to a set of impious men , there have been thofe , who have given into the most horrid blafphemies ; have difcourfed of an Almighty Being with greater irreverence , than they would of any ...
... friendship or applause , or even admiffion to a set of impious men , there have been thofe , who have given into the most horrid blafphemies ; have difcourfed of an Almighty Being with greater irreverence , than they would of any ...
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... friend , we naturally and immediately reflect on the artist who drew it . Now if a picture , which can but look , a voice yet directs our minds to the living agent , by whose skill it was painted ; much more should the exqui- fite fite ...
... friend , we naturally and immediately reflect on the artist who drew it . Now if a picture , which can but look , a voice yet directs our minds to the living agent , by whose skill it was painted ; much more should the exqui- fite fite ...
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... friends , charitable to our enemies , and indulgent to our inferiors . Enable us , O God , " to overcome pleasure by mortification , covetoufness by alms , an- ger by meekness , and luke - warmness by devotion . Make us pru- " dent , O ...
... friends , charitable to our enemies , and indulgent to our inferiors . Enable us , O God , " to overcome pleasure by mortification , covetoufness by alms , an- ger by meekness , and luke - warmness by devotion . Make us pru- " dent , O ...
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... friend who fhould point out to him an infal- lible method to preferve him from fuch deftruction ? If then the greatest care is thought too little to fecure us from temporal calami- ties , how much more will the fincere believer do to ...
... friend who fhould point out to him an infal- lible method to preferve him from fuch deftruction ? If then the greatest care is thought too little to fecure us from temporal calami- ties , how much more will the fincere believer do to ...
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... friends look with uncon- cern for his sufferings : he is conscious how undeferving he has been , and therefore is not the last to discover what a secret joy dawns in every face , proceeding from the hope that they are foon to be freed ...
... friends look with uncon- cern for his sufferings : he is conscious how undeferving he has been , and therefore is not the last to discover what a secret joy dawns in every face , proceeding from the hope that they are foon to be freed ...
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Æneid affert afflictions againſt Almighty almoſt anſwer becauſe bleffed body caufe cauſe chriftian confequently convinced death defire demonftrate difcourfe diſcover divine earth Eliphaz eternal exiſtence eyes facred faid fame fcriptures fecret feems fenfe feveral fhall fhew fhort fince firſt fome fons foon forrows foul fpirit friends ftill fubject fuch fuffer fufficient fuppofe fure future ftate goodneſs happineſs hath heaven himſelf holy imagine immortal infinite itſelf Job's juft juftice juſt laft laſt leaft leaſt lefs live Lord mankind mind MISCELLANEOUS REMARKS moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature never notwithſtanding obferved paffage paffions perfon pleaſed pleaſure poffibly prefent puniſhment purpoſe raiſe reafon reflect REMARKS on CHAP Sadducees ſay ſenſe ſhall ſhort ſhould ſome ſpeak ſtand ſtate ſtill ſuch thee thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou thouſand tion truth underſtanding univerfal uſe utmoſt VERSE virtue whofe whoſe wicked wiſdom ZOPHAR
Popular passages
Page 325 - For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another ; though my reins be consumed within me.
Page 245 - Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; Which long for death, but it cometh not ; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
Page 224 - Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, and said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither : the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away ; blessed be the name of the LORD.
Page 283 - Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; A land of darkness, as darkness itself; And of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as darkness.
Page 221 - And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
Page 370 - He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots. He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing. He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.
Page 319 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee: — I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not , fatal vision , sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Page 62 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Page 463 - I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee: Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Page 314 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass: and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think, I am easier to be played on than a pipe...