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... better , than keep up a correspondence with him . The grand deficiencies in right temper and conduct , arise , much more , from want of right feelings , than from want of knowledge : and right feelings cannot , so certainly , be either ...
... better , than keep up a correspondence with him . The grand deficiencies in right temper and conduct , arise , much more , from want of right feelings , than from want of knowledge : and right feelings cannot , so certainly , be either ...
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... better- informed divine , a more judicious casuist , or a more evangelic christian . His theological lectures , though in some measure deformed , by the strange adoption of a mathematical form in demonstrating his propositions , are a ...
... better- informed divine , a more judicious casuist , or a more evangelic christian . His theological lectures , though in some measure deformed , by the strange adoption of a mathematical form in demonstrating his propositions , are a ...
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... better worth the study , whether of the professional , or private man ; of all , who would truly learn , how to live , or how to die . Respecting the passages in the life of the earl of Rochester , nothing could easily be added to the ...
... better worth the study , whether of the professional , or private man ; of all , who would truly learn , how to live , or how to die . Respecting the passages in the life of the earl of Rochester , nothing could easily be added to the ...
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... better concluded , than with the bishop's own parting ex- hortation , with which he ends that admirable set of counsels to posterity , subjoined to the History of his Own Times . So noble , and , at the same time , so comprehensive a ...
... better concluded , than with the bishop's own parting ex- hortation , with which he ends that admirable set of counsels to posterity , subjoined to the History of his Own Times . So noble , and , at the same time , so comprehensive a ...
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... better to have ill - trained sensibilities , than no sensibilities at all . To this latter suspicion judge Hale might have been liable , had he appeared to favour the non- conformists , from latitudinarian indifference . attachment , on ...
... better to have ill - trained sensibilities , than no sensibilities at all . To this latter suspicion judge Hale might have been liable , had he appeared to favour the non- conformists , from latitudinarian indifference . attachment , on ...
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Lives, characters, and an address to posterity. Ed. by J.Jebb Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1833 |
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Sida 263 - But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Sida 332 - For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men...
Sida 386 - The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
Sida xvii - GOD, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed : Give unto thy servants that peace which the world cannot give ; that both our hearts may be set to obey thy commandments, and also that by thee we, being defended from the fear of our enemies, may pass our time in rest and quietness, through the merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour.
Sida lxiv - Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and yc shall find rest for your souls.
Sida xiii - For the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Sida liii - But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows, richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Sida 385 - What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? 275 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
Sida 16 - So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.
Sida 332 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.