The Whole Works of the Rev. James Hervey: In Six Volumes, Volume 2Thomas Tegg, 1825 - Devotional literature |
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... look upon it as a duty which I owe to my conscience , to my readers , and to my God , publicly to acknowledge the error.- It is one thing to be silent ; another to be obstinate . As I shall inflexibly adhere to the first , I would with ...
... look upon it as a duty which I owe to my conscience , to my readers , and to my God , publicly to acknowledge the error.- It is one thing to be silent ; another to be obstinate . As I shall inflexibly adhere to the first , I would with ...
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... look back upon interviews squandered away in very vanity , and shocking to look forward upon the ac- count which we must all shortly render . What figure will such an article make in the final reckoning , and at the decisive bar ! Our ...
... look back upon interviews squandered away in very vanity , and shocking to look forward upon the ac- count which we must all shortly render . What figure will such an article make in the final reckoning , and at the decisive bar ! Our ...
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... look for the strength of reasoning , and the warmth of exhortation ; the insinuating arts of genteel address , or the manly boldness of impartial reproof ; all the thunder of the orator , without any of his os- tentation ; all the ...
... look for the strength of reasoning , and the warmth of exhortation ; the insinuating arts of genteel address , or the manly boldness of impartial reproof ; all the thunder of the orator , without any of his os- tentation ; all the ...
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... looks like an arrangement of rural piazzas , or a collection of diversified vistas . The eye is every - where entertained with the exactest uniformity , and darts with unobstructed ease from one end of the branching files to the other ...
... looks like an arrangement of rural piazzas , or a collection of diversified vistas . The eye is every - where entertained with the exactest uniformity , and darts with unobstructed ease from one end of the branching files to the other ...
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... look upon it as the peculiar phraseology of a few superstitious sectarists , and reject it merely on the foot of that unreasonable surmise . But how can you be disgusted at the ex- pression , Theron , who have so often read it in the ...
... look upon it as the peculiar phraseology of a few superstitious sectarists , and reject it merely on the foot of that unreasonable surmise . But how can you be disgusted at the ex- pression , Theron , who have so often read it in the ...
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Page 179 - Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
Page 209 - Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Page 168 - Blessed be the Lord thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel : because the Lord loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.
Page 220 - I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Page 79 - For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of 'Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices : but this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people : and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
Page 217 - Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God ? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old ? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
Page 329 - What is man, that he should be clean? And he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints ; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. How much more abominable and filthy Is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
Page 116 - Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Page 26 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...
Page 327 - The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children .of men to see if there were any that did understand and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are altogether become filthy ; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.