 | Thomas Amory - 1755 - 576 pàgines
...world to fave finners, and of confeqnence, our bufinefs muft be the labours of a penitential piety. To fear God, and keep his commandments, is the whole duty of man. From a conviction or Converfion, occafioned by the reveled doftrine of the gofpef, and by the holy... | |
 | John Abernethy - 1757 - 436 pàgines
...this doctrine, that the SE R M.fear of the Lord is vvifdom,(the beginning and the perfection of it) that to fear God and keep his commandments is the whole duty, and whole happinefs of man; but particularly A that it is the fureft way to prefent tranquillity, to... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1780 - 318 pàgines
...— Now, .from all thefe premifes put together, Solomon infers this fhort conclufion in the text, — That to fear GOD, and keep his commandments, is the whole duty of man;— that, to be ferious in the matter of religion, and careful about our future ftates, is that which,... | |
 | John Gill - 1796 - 550 pàgines
...; for every man, as a creature of God, is subject to him, its Creator and Lawgiver, and to his kw: to fear God, and keep his commandments, is the whole duty of man ; and is the duty of every man ; and was the duty of Christ, as man. But besides this Christ was made... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 442 pàgines
...obferved, that the author, in an academic way, difputes on both fides of the queftion ; and at laft concludes properly, that to " fear God and keep his commandments is the whole duty of man ; for God (fays he) will bring every work to judgment, and every fccret th!n¿, whether it be good, or whether... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1799 - 504 pàgines
...them. Let us hear the conclufion of the whole matter. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every work into judgment, with every fecret thing, whether it be 28 *rhe Evidences of be good, or whether it be... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1803 - 566 pàgines
...all thefe premifes put together, Solomon infers this ffiort conclufion in the text, • .• ' T'liat to fear God, and keep his commandments, is the whole duty of man ; — that, to be ferious in the matter of religion-, and careful about our future ftate is that which,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1805 - 470 pàgines
...— Now, from all these premises put together, SoIcmon infers this short conclusion in the text,— That to fear GoD, and keep his commandments, is the whole duty of man ; — that, to be serious in the matter of religion, and careful about our future states, is that which,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1808 - 446 pàgines
...which we maintain for pre-eminence and distinction, we shall find at the conclusion of the whole scene, that to fear God and keep his commandments is the whole duty of man. SERMON XIII. On the BENEFITS to be derived from the HOUSE of MOURNING. ECCLESIASTES, vii. 2, 3, 4.... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - 1809 - 418 pàgines
...in God. Hear now the conclusion of the whole matter. fear God, and keep his commandments ;for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every •work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. SERMON XIX. The... | |
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Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter. Fear God, and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil. 
