Practical piety; or, The influence of the religion of the heart on the conduct of the life, Volume 2Munroe and Francis, 1811 |
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... habit to rumi- nate on our faults . With the recollection of our virtues we need not feed our vanity . They will , if that vanity does not obliterate them , be recorded elsewhere , : We are also most disposed to look at those parts of ...
... habit to rumi- nate on our faults . With the recollection of our virtues we need not feed our vanity . They will , if that vanity does not obliterate them , be recorded elsewhere , : We are also most disposed to look at those parts of ...
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... habit of culti vating an acquaintance with our hearts . We fill much too large a space in our own imag inations ; we fancy we take up more room in the world than Providence assigns to an indi- vidual who has to divide his allotment with ...
... habit of culti vating an acquaintance with our hearts . We fill much too large a space in our own imag inations ; we fancy we take up more room in the world than Providence assigns to an indi- vidual who has to divide his allotment with ...
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... habit of our lives , and by treating our habitual faults , not as common habits , but occasional failures . There is carcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity , though perhaps there is none that really injures us so ...
... habit of our lives , and by treating our habitual faults , not as common habits , but occasional failures . There is carcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity , though perhaps there is none that really injures us so ...
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... habit might conquer the repugnance to look at home , and the fondness for looking abroad . Familiar- ity often makes us pleased with the society which while strangers , we dreaded . Intimacy with ourselves might produce a similar effect ...
... habit might conquer the repugnance to look at home , and the fondness for looking abroad . Familiar- ity often makes us pleased with the society which while strangers , we dreaded . Intimacy with ourselves might produce a similar effect ...
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... habit of treating religion as a science ca- pable of demonstration . On a subject evidently admitting but of moral evidence , we lament to see questions dogmatically proved , instead of being temperately argued . Nay we could al- most ...
... habit of treating religion as a science ca- pable of demonstration . On a subject evidently admitting but of moral evidence , we lament to see questions dogmatically proved , instead of being temperately argued . Nay we could al- most ...
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Página 150 - The LORD, the LORD GOD, merciful and gracious, long• suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping • mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression ' and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty...
Página 21 - Look well if there be any way of wickedness in me ; and lead me in the way everlasting.
Página 226 - Hence the heartrending interrogation, " is it nothing to you all ye that pass by ? Behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Página 189 - But the Lord said unto him ; Go thy way, for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel. For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
Página 34 - The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Página 227 - But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God; " and he said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God.
Página 189 - I am with you saith the LORD of hosts- According to the word that I covenanted with you, when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you, fear ye not. For thus saith the LORD of hosts, yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land. And I will shake all nations, and the Desire of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts, the silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of...
Página 186 - In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth, and, with low-thoughted care.
Página 6 - THE POWER OF RELIGION ON THE MIND, in Retirement, Affliction, and at the approach of Death ; exemplified in the Testimonies and Experience of Persons distinguished by their greatness, learning, or virtue. " 'Tis immortality, — 'tis that alone, " Amidst life's pains, abasements, emptiness, " The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill.