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... hath built and created all things , although , because the number of his days be few , he could not see when God disposed his works of old ; when he caused the light of his clouds first to shine , when he laid the corner - stone of the ...
... hath built and created all things , although , because the number of his days be few , he could not see when God disposed his works of old ; when he caused the light of his clouds first to shine , when he laid the corner - stone of the ...
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... hath diversely imparted her treasures unto the world . As her ways are of sundry kinds , so her manner of teaching is not merely one and the same . Some things she openeth by the sacred books of Scripture ; some things by the glorious ...
... hath diversely imparted her treasures unto the world . As her ways are of sundry kinds , so her manner of teaching is not merely one and the same . Some things she openeth by the sacred books of Scripture ; some things by the glorious ...
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... hath testified concerning herself , the Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way , even before his works of old , I was set up ; that law which hath been the pattern to make , and is the card to guide the world by ; that law which ...
... hath testified concerning herself , the Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way , even before his works of old , I was set up ; that law which hath been the pattern to make , and is the card to guide the world by ; that law which ...
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... hath been to do his will : he made a law for the rain ; he gave his decree unto the sea , that the waters should not pass his commandment . 5. Obedience unto the Law of Nature is the stay of the whole world . If nature should intermit ...
... hath been to do his will : he made a law for the rain ; he gave his decree unto the sea , that the waters should not pass his commandment . 5. Obedience unto the Law of Nature is the stay of the whole world . If nature should intermit ...
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... hath revealed unto his church , was above the reach of their merely natural capacity and understanding . 8. God the author of the Laws of Nature . Such her dexterity and skill appeareth , that no intellectual creature in the world were ...
... hath revealed unto his church , was above the reach of their merely natural capacity and understanding . 8. God the author of the Laws of Nature . Such her dexterity and skill appeareth , that no intellectual creature in the world were ...
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Page 24 - Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly ; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind : neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
Page 19 - Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Page 18 - Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Page ii - Those things which nature is said to do, are by divine art performed, using nature as an instrument ; nor is there any such art or knowledge divine in nature herself working, but in the Guide of nature's work.
Page 57 - He that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers ; because they know the manifold defects whereunto every kind of regiment is subject, 'but the secret lets and difficulties, which in public proceedings are innumerable and inevitable, they have not ordinarily the judgment to consider.
Page 40 - ... hath to express and represent to the mind, more inwardly than any other sensible mean, the very standing, rising, and falling, the very steps and inflections every way, the turns and varieties of all passions, whereunto the mind is subject ; yea, so to imitate them, that, whether it...