The Christian LifeR.N., 1686 - Christian life |
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... sense it is , to think of going to Heaven or escaping Hell whilst they continue in any wilful Courfe of Difobedience to the Laws of Vertue . Having thus treated at large of the first Sort of Means by which the End of our Chriftian Life ...
... sense it is , to think of going to Heaven or escaping Hell whilst they continue in any wilful Courfe of Difobedience to the Laws of Vertue . Having thus treated at large of the first Sort of Means by which the End of our Chriftian Life ...
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... sense consists in not permitting our Irafcible Affections to exceed thofe Evils or Dangers which we feek to repel or avoid , in keeping our Fear and Anger , our Ma- lice , Envy , and Revenge , in fuch due fubjection as not to let them ...
... sense consists in not permitting our Irafcible Affections to exceed thofe Evils or Dangers which we feek to repel or avoid , in keeping our Fear and Anger , our Ma- lice , Envy , and Revenge , in fuch due fubjection as not to let them ...
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... sense of them is abated with the Inter- mixture of our Bodily pleafures ; and partly be- caufe while we operate , as we do , by these un- wieldy Organs of Flefh , our Reflections cannot be comparably fo quick , nor our Paffions fo ...
... sense of them is abated with the Inter- mixture of our Bodily pleafures ; and partly be- caufe while we operate , as we do , by these un- wieldy Organs of Flefh , our Reflections cannot be comparably fo quick , nor our Paffions fo ...
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... sense of more manly pleasures , we defpife Nuts and Rattles , which , when we were Children , we accounted bur Happiness , and fhould have reckoned our felves undone had we been deprived of them ; So when by the Practice of a fevere ...
... sense of more manly pleasures , we defpife Nuts and Rattles , which , when we were Children , we accounted bur Happiness , and fhould have reckoned our felves undone had we been deprived of them ; So when by the Practice of a fevere ...
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... sense of his attractive beauties , that we fhall never be well but while we are with him ; fo that he will become the conftant Companion of our thoughts , and the daily Theme of our Meditations ; and nothing in the world will be fo ...
... sense of his attractive beauties , that we fhall never be well but while we are with him ; fo that he will become the conftant Companion of our thoughts , and the daily Theme of our Meditations ; and nothing in the world will be fo ...
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Page 358 - But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
Page 367 - Let him that stole steal no more; but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Page 388 - For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
Page 388 - For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
Page 37 - Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doth the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Page 347 - If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind...
Page 247 - Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft : teaching them to obferve all things whatfoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.
Page 242 - ... strengths and capacities, and, like Jacob, hath marched softly and in evenness with the children and the cattle, to entertain us by the comforts of his company, and the influence of a perpetual guide. He that gives alms to the poor takes Jesus by the...
Page 136 - Means of which we can exprefs our Thoughts, and maintain a mutual Intelligence of Minds, with one another ; and thereby divert our Sorrows, mingle our Mirth, impart our Secrets, communicate our Counfels, and make mutual Compacts and Agreements to fupply and affift each other.
Page 247 - Authority to send others, and with a Promise that he would be with them to the End of the World.