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... grace to deformity , and has brought everything into vogue , by turns , but virtue . Yet she is most capricious in her favours , often running from those that pursue her , and coming round to those that stand still . It were mad to ...
... grace to deformity , and has brought everything into vogue , by turns , but virtue . Yet she is most capricious in her favours , often running from those that pursue her , and coming round to those that stand still . It were mad to ...
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... grace of God . The expectation of future happiness is the best relief of anxious thoughts , the most perfect cure of melancholy , the guide of life , and the comfort of death . It is impossible to see the long scrolls in which every ...
... grace of God . The expectation of future happiness is the best relief of anxious thoughts , the most perfect cure of melancholy , the guide of life , and the comfort of death . It is impossible to see the long scrolls in which every ...
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... grace with less ; poverty lies in opinion ; what is needful is soon provided , and enough is as good as a feast ; we are worth what we do not want ; our occasions being supplied , what would we do with PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY . 83.
... grace with less ; poverty lies in opinion ; what is needful is soon provided , and enough is as good as a feast ; we are worth what we do not want ; our occasions being supplied , what would we do with PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY . 83.
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... grace - to harden when He does not soften . He is said to make blind when He does not enlighten , as freezing and darkness follow upon the absence of the sun , the source of light and heat . Salter . The elect are " whosoever will ...
... grace - to harden when He does not soften . He is said to make blind when He does not enlighten , as freezing and darkness follow upon the absence of the sun , the source of light and heat . Salter . The elect are " whosoever will ...
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... grace , you must first of all get faith , and that will bring all the rest . Let faith go to Christ , and there is meekness , patience , humility , and wisdom , and faith will fetch them all to the soul ; therefore you must not look for ...
... grace , you must first of all get faith , and that will bring all the rest . Let faith go to Christ , and there is meekness , patience , humility , and wisdom , and faith will fetch them all to the soul ; therefore you must not look for ...
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Sida 17 - The discretion of a man deferreth his anger ; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Sida 126 - I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
Sida 128 - Far, far away, like bells at evening pealing, The voice of Jesus sounds o'er land and sea, And laden souls by thousands meekly stealing, Kind Shepherd, turn their weary steps to Thee.
Sida 13 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs, as carols. And the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon.
Sida 39 - Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food; but God has given us wit, and flavour, and brightness, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to " charm his pained steps over the burning marie.
Sida 1 - The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Sida 261 - Get thee hence, Satan : for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve." Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, Angels came and ministered unto him.
Sida 131 - ... prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares, and the calm of our tempest ; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts, it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness ; and he that prays to God with an angry, that is, with a troubled and discomposed spirit, is like him...
Sida 130 - These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.