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... Virtue ; and that of divers periods of Time , and Nations of the World . All con- curring in this one testimony , " That a life of strict virtue , viz . To do well , and bear ill , is the way to everlasting happiness . " Collected in ...
... Virtue ; and that of divers periods of Time , and Nations of the World . All con- curring in this one testimony , " That a life of strict virtue , viz . To do well , and bear ill , is the way to everlasting happiness . " Collected in ...
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William Penn. gence , who embraced every opportunity of watering the growing seeds of virtue , he sent them a letter of encourage- ment and consolation , exhorting those noble women to a constancy and perseverance in that holy way which ...
William Penn. gence , who embraced every opportunity of watering the growing seeds of virtue , he sent them a letter of encourage- ment and consolation , exhorting those noble women to a constancy and perseverance in that holy way which ...
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... virtue , and that holy plain way of it which we have lived in , that the world , in no part of it , get into my family . I had rather they were homely than finely bred , as to outward behaviour ; yet I love sweetness mixed with gravity ...
... virtue , and that holy plain way of it which we have lived in , that the world , in no part of it , get into my family . I had rather they were homely than finely bred , as to outward behaviour ; yet I love sweetness mixed with gravity ...
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... virtue and good name is an honour to you ; for she hath been exceeded by none in her time for her plainness , inte- grity , industry , humanity , virtue , and good understanding : qualities not usual among women of her worldly condition ...
... virtue and good name is an honour to you ; for she hath been exceeded by none in her time for her plainness , inte- grity , industry , humanity , virtue , and good understanding : qualities not usual among women of her worldly condition ...
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... virtue to the soul ; no good , or ex- ample , to one's neighbour . Let us not flatter ourselves . ' We can never be the better for our religion , if our neigh bour be the worse for it . ' Our fault is , we are apt to be mighty hot upon ...
... virtue to the soul ; no good , or ex- ample , to one's neighbour . Let us not flatter ourselves . ' We can never be the better for our religion , if our neigh bour be the worse for it . ' Our fault is , we are apt to be mighty hot upon ...
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Page 551 - And why take ye thought for raiment. Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow ; they toil not neither do they spin ; and yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 551 - Therefore I say unto you ; Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns ; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Page 238 - This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, That God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
Page 252 - For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.
Page 254 - ... (for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified : for when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves : which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another ;) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to...
Page 466 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 292 - Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all ; but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world...
Page 249 - Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth : 6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
Page 554 - For the love of money is the root of all evil, which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. But thou, O man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, Godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
Page 6 - And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake, Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.