Sermons: Volume the third, Volym 2A. Strahan, and T. Cadell in the Strand, and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1790 - 434 sidor |
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Sida 45
... amidst the fucceeding cares and pleasures of the world ! To the good old Patriarch mentioned in the text , we have reafon to believe that fuch impreffions were habitual . The queftion put to him by the Egyptian monarch produced , in his ...
... amidst the fucceeding cares and pleasures of the world ! To the good old Patriarch mentioned in the text , we have reafon to believe that fuch impreffions were habitual . The queftion put to him by the Egyptian monarch produced , in his ...
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... amidst the turmoil of this world , leads his flock into green pastures , and by the ftill waters . As you advance in life , study to improve both in good principles , and in good practice . You will be enabled to look to futurity ...
... amidst the turmoil of this world , leads his flock into green pastures , and by the ftill waters . As you advance in life , study to improve both in good principles , and in good practice . You will be enabled to look to futurity ...
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... amidst all the buftle of the world , let us not forget , III . To guard with vigilance against the peculiar dangers which attend the period of middle life . It is much to be regretted , that in the present ftate of things there is no ...
... amidst all the buftle of the world , let us not forget , III . To guard with vigilance against the peculiar dangers which attend the period of middle life . It is much to be regretted , that in the present ftate of things there is no ...
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... amidst the unknown . occurrences that are yet before you , you have ground to hope for the continued protection of the Almighty . Bring to mind the various revolutions . which you have beheld in human affairs , fince you became actors ...
... amidst the unknown . occurrences that are yet before you , you have ground to hope for the continued protection of the Almighty . Bring to mind the various revolutions . which you have beheld in human affairs , fince you became actors ...
Sida 83
... amidst the toils of the world , men fometimes look for- ward , not without fatisfaction , as to the period of retreat and reft . But let them not deceive themselves . A joylefs and dreary season it will prove , if they arrive at it with ...
... amidst the toils of the world , men fometimes look for- ward , not without fatisfaction , as to the period of retreat and reft . But let them not deceive themselves . A joylefs and dreary season it will prove , if they arrive at it with ...
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Sida 185 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Sida 399 - Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in the Lord his God : Which made heaven and earth, The sea, and all that therein is : Which keepeth truth for ever: Which executeth judgment for the oppressed : Which giveth food to the hungry.
Sida 45 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage* are an hundred and thirty years...
Sida 27 - ... to rejoice with them that rejoice, and to weep with them that weep...
Sida 10 - The statesman, the orator or the poet, may be famous; while yet the man himself is far from being honoured. We envy his abilities. We wish to rival them.
Sida 9 - The former is a loud and noisy Applause the latter a more silent and internal Homage Fame floats on, the Breath of the Multitude Honour rests on the Judgment of the Thinking Fame may give Praise while it withholds Esteem...
Sida 106 - ... or envy. Moral and religious instruction derives its efficacy, not so much from what men are taught to know, as from what they are brought to feel.
Sida 309 - O send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling. * Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy; and I will praise you with the harp, O God, my God.
Sida 235 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun : but if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many.
Sida 42 - He who pretends to great sensibility towards men, and yet has no feeling for the high objects of religion, no heart to admire and adore the great Father of the universe, has reason to distrust the truth and delicacy of his sensibility.