Discourses on Several Important Subjects: To which are Added Eight Sermons Preached at the Lady Moyers Lecture, Volume 11747 |
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Actions anſwer Beauty becauſe Benevolence beſt bleſſed Buſineſs Cafe Caſe Cauſe Chriſtian cloſe Compaſs confider Confideration Conſequence conſiſtent Converſation Courſe Daniel Waterland Defire Deity Deſign diſcharge diſpenſe Diſtreſſes Diverſions Domeſtics Duty eaſy elſe endeavour Eſteem falſe fame firſt fome foon fuch fuffer fure give Goodneſs Greatneſs habitual Happineſs Heart himſelf Honour Ideas Impreſſions Inſtance Intereſt Iſt itſelf juſt laſt leaſt leſs Love Malice Mankind Meaſure Mind Miſery Morality moſt muſt Nature neceſſary neſs never obſerve occafional ourſelves Paffion paſs Paſſions Perſon Piety pleaſe Pleaſure Prayer preſent preſerve Principle racter Reaſon Religion Reliſh repreſented ſame ſay ſcarce ſee ſeems ſeldom ſelves Senſe SER.XVI SERM ſerve ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhew ſhine ſhort ſhould ſome ſomething ſometimes Soul ſpeak Spirit ſtand ſtill ſtrong ſubſtantial ſuch ſuppoſe Taſte Temper themſelves theſe Things thoſe Thoughts tion Truth ture uneaſy univerſal uſe Vice Virtue whoſe World
Passagens conhecidas
Página 25 - Being, who is infinitely more than an adequate object of all those affections : whom we are commanded to love with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our mind.
Página 282 - And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
Página 42 - Neither was it mine adversary that did magnify himself against me; for then peradventure I would have hid myself from him : 14 But it was even thou, my companion, my guide, and mine own familiar friend.
Página 1 - But I fay unto you. Love your enemies, blefs them that curfe you , do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which dejpitefullj ufe you, and perfecute you.
Página 211 - ... of life in general. When the former part of our life has been nothing but vanity, the latter end of it can be nothing but vexation. In...
Página 259 - GOD, who seest that we have no power of ourselves to help ourselves ; Keep us both outwardly in our bodies, and inwardly in our souls ; that we may be defended from all adversities which may happen to the body, and from all evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the soul ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Página 297 - ... in the winter of our days. And when this transitory scene is shutting upon us, when the soul stands upon the threshold of another world, just ready to take its everlasting flight; then may we think with unallayed pleasure on God, when there can be little or no pleasure to think upon anything else.
Página 354 - Will to Mankind in all his Actions, yet takes off the fpecious Gilding from thofe Hypocrites, who for a Pretence made long Prayers, that they might devour Widows Houfes. He removed the thin Veil of Hypocrify, and difcovered thofe mean Defigns, which lurked beneath their Pretenfions to an uncommon Sanctity. Where a Man's Vices only hurt himfelf, and terminate in his own Perfon ; there we have no Right to...
Página 65 - Be not ashamed to confess you have been in the wrong. It is but owning what you need not be ashamed of, that you now have more sense than you had before to see your error; more humility to acknowledge it, and more grace to correct it.
Página 220 - Let us fet a juft Value upon, and make a due Ufe of thofe Advantages, which we of this Place enjoy, who are here feparated from the bufy World to feek and intermeddle with Wifdom.