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... lefs Degree of Happiness , who knows there is greater ? This is Stupidity and Baseness of Spirit ; an ignoble Mind , which is not capable of great Hopes . Ambition and Covetoufnefs indeed are ill Names , but yet they are Symptoms of a ...
... lefs Degree of Happiness , who knows there is greater ? This is Stupidity and Baseness of Spirit ; an ignoble Mind , which is not capable of great Hopes . Ambition and Covetoufnefs indeed are ill Names , but yet they are Symptoms of a ...
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... lefs careful to preserve the Life of our Souls , which is the only immortal Part of us . For though our Souls cannot die , as our Bodies do , yet they may be miferable , and that is called Eternal Death , where the Worm never dieth ...
... lefs careful to preserve the Life of our Souls , which is the only immortal Part of us . For though our Souls cannot die , as our Bodies do , yet they may be miferable , and that is called Eternal Death , where the Worm never dieth ...
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... lefs you could find out a new Scene of material and fenfible Pleasures to entertain him : For though the particular Appetites and Inclinations of the Body may ceafe , yet his very Soul is fenfualized ; and therefore is uncapable of the ...
... lefs you could find out a new Scene of material and fenfible Pleasures to entertain him : For though the particular Appetites and Inclinations of the Body may ceafe , yet his very Soul is fenfualized ; and therefore is uncapable of the ...
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... lefs of Flesh they carry to the Grave with them , the more glorious will they rife again . This is offering up our Bodies a living Sacri- fice , when we entirely devote them to the Service of of God ; and fuch living Sacrifices fhall ...
... lefs of Flesh they carry to the Grave with them , the more glorious will they rife again . This is offering up our Bodies a living Sacri- fice , when we entirely devote them to the Service of of God ; and fuch living Sacrifices fhall ...
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... lefs Matters . The Promises of eternal Life , through our Lord Jefus Chrift , are the highest Demonftrations of God's Love to us ; and he who is fo well affured of God's Love that he can trust him for Heaven , can never distrust his ...
... lefs Matters . The Promises of eternal Life , through our Lord Jefus Chrift , are the highest Demonftrations of God's Love to us ; and he who is fo well affured of God's Love that he can trust him for Heaven , can never distrust his ...
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Page 133 - And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through. 40 Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
Page 133 - Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning ; and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding ; that when he cometh and knocketh, they -may open unto him immediately.
Page 133 - Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour when the Son of man cometh.
Page 122 - The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Page 118 - And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
Page 76 - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Page 68 - For if by one man's offence death reigned by one ; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.
Page 143 - Put not your trust in princes, Nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish.
Page 164 - Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you : for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. 36 While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light.
Page 40 - But if the Spirit of him that raifed up Jefus from the dead dwell in you, he that raifed up Chrift -from the dead fhall a'Bb quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.