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However , his notion of this controversy , as between Williams and others , seems
to have been as fair as the application of the Dort story was felicitous . And we
may add , there is abundant reason to believe that , at the end of the seventeenth
...
However , his notion of this controversy , as between Williams and others , seems
to have been as fair as the application of the Dort story was felicitous . And we
may add , there is abundant reason to believe that , at the end of the seventeenth
...
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Modern pastors fancy that under this weight of six songs , six prayers , two
expositions , and two sermons on a Sunday , besides preaching in the week , in
all seven or eight times , they would utterly break down ; yet Matthew Henry
seems to ...
Modern pastors fancy that under this weight of six songs , six prayers , two
expositions , and two sermons on a Sunday , besides preaching in the week , in
all seven or eight times , they would utterly break down ; yet Matthew Henry
seems to ...
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As the subject of this memorial was intended , by the providence of God , to
become pre - eminently distinguished as a divinity professor , it seems proper , in
connexion with the commencement of his student - life , to advert to the history
and ...
As the subject of this memorial was intended , by the providence of God , to
become pre - eminently distinguished as a divinity professor , it seems proper , in
connexion with the commencement of his student - life , to advert to the history
and ...
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... prospects of Nonconformity were dark and forbiddingthis seems to have been
their chief design . But as the Established Church showed no disposition to
conciliate , as the cause of the conscientious dissentients grew in numbers and
vigour ...
... prospects of Nonconformity were dark and forbiddingthis seems to have been
their chief design . But as the Established Church showed no disposition to
conciliate , as the cause of the conscientious dissentients grew in numbers and
vigour ...
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This I only offer to your Grace as what seems to me the fairest and softest way of
ridding your hands of this business . ” * To explain this advice , it is proper we
should remark , that in the middle ages , factions arose at Oxford and Cambridge
...
This I only offer to your Grace as what seems to me the fairest and softest way of
ridding your hands of this business . ” * To explain this advice , it is proper we
should remark , that in the middle ages , factions arose at Oxford and Cambridge
...
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Página 139 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Página 141 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use.
Página 87 - Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act, - act in the living Present! Heart within, and God o'erhead! Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.
Página 223 - ... truth, as the students were about equally divided upon every question of much importance, such as Liberty and Necessity, the Sleep of the soul, and all the articles of theological orthodoxy and heresy ; in consequence of which all these topics were the subject of continual discussion. Our tutors also were of different opinions; Dr. Ashworth taking the orthodox side of every question, and Mr. Clark, the sub-tutor, that of heresy, though always with the greatest modesty.
Página 83 - Ye golden lamps of heaven, farewell, with all your feeble light ! Farewell, thou ever-changing moon, pale empress of the night ! -'And- thou, refulgent orb of day, in brighter flames arrayed, My soul...
Página 75 - This is a true saying. If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach...
Página 123 - Oh, sirs ! as for the waters which are drawn from these springs, how sweetly soever they may taste to a curious mind that thirsts for them, or to an ambitious mind which thirsts for the...
Página 175 - ... poor, the sick ; pleasant to write letters of necessary business by which any good can be done ; pleasant to go out and preach the gospel to poor souls, of which some are thirsting for it, and others dying without it; pleasant in the week-day to think how near another Sabbath is ; but, oh ! much, much more pleasant, to think how near eternity is, and how short the journey through this wilderness, and that it is but a step from earth to heaven.
Página 188 - When death o'er nature shall prevail, And all its powers of language fail, Joy through my swimming eyes shall break, And mean the thanks I cannot speak.
Página 83 - The Father of eternal light Shall there his beams display ; Nor shall one moment's darkness mix With that unvaried day.