Contemplations Moral and Divine, etc. [With a portrait.]William Shrewsbury; Dan. Midwinter & Tho. Leigh, 1699 - 558 páginas |
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... Understanding doubts , but do incef- fantly inculcate the Remembrance of it . And yet it is ftrange to fee that this great Truth , where- of in the Theory no Man doubts , is little confidered or thought upon by the most of Mankind : But ...
... Understanding doubts , but do incef- fantly inculcate the Remembrance of it . And yet it is ftrange to fee that this great Truth , where- of in the Theory no Man doubts , is little confidered or thought upon by the most of Mankind : But ...
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... Understanding . THE great Prebeminence that Man hath over Beafts , is his Reason ; and the great Preheminence that one Man hath over another is Wisdom ; though all Men have ordinarily the Privilege of Reafon ; yet all Men have not the ...
... Understanding . THE great Prebeminence that Man hath over Beafts , is his Reason ; and the great Preheminence that one Man hath over another is Wisdom ; though all Men have ordinarily the Privilege of Reafon ; yet all Men have not the ...
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... Understanding . And when the Wife Man had run all his long Travel of Experiments to attain that which might be that good for the Children of Men ; in the end of his tedious Chace and Purfuit , he clofeth up all with this very fame ...
... Understanding . And when the Wife Man had run all his long Travel of Experiments to attain that which might be that good for the Children of Men ; in the end of his tedious Chace and Purfuit , he clofeth up all with this very fame ...
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... Understanding . I fhall fhew there fore thefew things ; 1. What it is to fear God ; 2. That this fear of God is moft demonftratively the best Wif dom of Mankind , and makes a Man truly and really a wife Man . I. Touching the firft of ...
... Understanding . I fhall fhew there fore thefew things ; 1. What it is to fear God ; 2. That this fear of God is moft demonftratively the best Wif dom of Mankind , and makes a Man truly and really a wife Man . I. Touching the firft of ...
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... Understanding ; and their folly is fo much the greater and the more incurable , that , like fome kind of frantick Men , they think very goodly of them- felves , think themfelves paffing - wife Men , and applaud themselves ; though it is ...
... Understanding ; and their folly is fo much the greater and the more incurable , that , like fome kind of frantick Men , they think very goodly of them- felves , think themfelves paffing - wife Men , and applaud themselves ; though it is ...
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Affliction affurance againſt alfo Almighty becauſe beft beſt Bleffing buſineſs cauſe Children of Men Chrift Confcience confequently confider confideration Counfels Creatures Death defire Deliverance diſappointed Divine doth Duty efteemed eſpecially Eternal everlaſting evil exercife fafe Faith fame Father Fear fecret feem felves fenfe fent feveral fhall fhould firft firſt fome ftand ftate ftill fubject fuch fuffer fuitable fure give Glory Goodneſs Grace greateſt Happineſs hath Heart Heaven himſelf Honour Humility infinite Jefus juft Juftice Kingdom Knowledge leaft lefs Lord Love Lufts Mankind Matth meaſure Mercy Mind moft moſt muft muſt Nature neceffary neceffity nefs Obedience obferve occafion Paffions Pardon Patience Perfon Pfal Pfalm pleafed pleaſed poffible Power Prayer prefent preferve Pride Profperity promife reafon refpect reft Saviour Senfe Sorrow Soul Spirit Temptations thee thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou art thy felf Truth Underſtanding unto uſe Wealth Wife Wiſdom worfe World
Passagens conhecidas
Página 439 - I am God, and there is none else ; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, " My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure...
Página 128 - But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that He by the grace of God should taste death for every man. For it became Him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
Página 375 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Página 108 - If God will be with me, and will keep me in the way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace ; then shall the Lord be my God...
Página 237 - ... then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth...
Página 98 - By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.
Página 230 - I have found, by a strict and diligent observation, that a due observation of the duty of this day hath ever had joined to it a blessing upon the rest of my time, and the week that hath been so begun hath been blessed...
Página 137 - Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground ; Yet man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward.
Página 233 - But further, there are many things that may be lawfully done on another day, which may not lawfully be done upon this ; and many things that are not only lawful upon another day, but also fit and decent, which are yet unfit to be done upon this day. Upon other days we may, and must employ ourselves, in our secular and ordinary callings ; we may use bodily exercises and recreations, as bowling, shooting, hunting, and divers other recreations; we may study...
Página 410 - Let the wicked forsake his ways, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon...