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... Season , when the general Spread of Luxury and Dissipation threatens more than at any preceding Period to extinguish the Character of our boasted national Bra- very . For the Observation of an honest old Writer , Stow , ( who tells us ...
... Season , when the general Spread of Luxury and Dissipation threatens more than at any preceding Period to extinguish the Character of our boasted national Bra- very . For the Observation of an honest old Writer , Stow , ( who tells us ...
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... Season : That our present Customs are very unbecom- ing . CHAP . XXII . 255 Of Palm - Sunday ; why so called ; How observed in the Popish Times : What it is truly to carry Palms in our Hands on that Day . · 262 CHAP , CHAP , XXIII . Of ...
... Season : That our present Customs are very unbecom- ing . CHAP . XXII . 255 Of Palm - Sunday ; why so called ; How observed in the Popish Times : What it is truly to carry Palms in our Hands on that Day . · 262 CHAP , CHAP , XXIII . Of ...
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... Season offers ; and therefore it will at least sometimes happen , when we put up our Prayers constantly at the tolling of the Bell , that we shall pray for a Soul departing . And tho ' it be granted , that it will oftener happen ...
... Season offers ; and therefore it will at least sometimes happen , when we put up our Prayers constantly at the tolling of the Bell , that we shall pray for a Soul departing . And tho ' it be granted , that it will oftener happen ...
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... Seasons , no Autumn nor Winter can make a Change in it , but it is unalterably the same , perpetually in Life , and never dying . The Romans , and other Heathens upon this Occasion , made Use of Cypress , which being once cut , will ...
... Seasons , no Autumn nor Winter can make a Change in it , but it is unalterably the same , perpetually in Life , and never dying . The Romans , and other Heathens upon this Occasion , made Use of Cypress , which being once cut , will ...
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... Season , revive and spring up again ; so the Body , like them , is but cut down for a while , and will rise and shoot up again at the Resur- rection . For , as the Prophet Isaiah says , * Our Bones shall flourish like an Herb . It was ...
... Season , revive and spring up again ; so the Body , like them , is but cut down for a while , and will rise and shoot up again at the Resur- rection . For , as the Prophet Isaiah says , * Our Bones shall flourish like an Herb . It was ...
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