The Counsels of a Father, in Four Letters of Sir Matthew Hale to His Children. To which is Added, The Practical Life of a True Christian ... With a New Memoir of the Author's Life ... Second EditionTaylor and Hessey, 1817 - 207 pàgines |
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Pàgina 47
... glory . Twelfthly . Reverence your minister : he is a wise and a good man , and one that loves you , and hath a tender care and respect for you . Do not grieve him , either by neglect or disrespect . Assure yourselves , if there be any ...
... glory . Twelfthly . Reverence your minister : he is a wise and a good man , and one that loves you , and hath a tender care and respect for you . Do not grieve him , either by neglect or disrespect . Assure yourselves , if there be any ...
Pàgina 123
... glory of God , and your own benefit . I shall therefore conclude with two con- siderations , that may the more engage you to this use of both these dispensations . I. The danger is great , if afflictions make not a man more humble and ...
... glory of God , and your own benefit . I shall therefore conclude with two con- siderations , that may the more engage you to this use of both these dispensations . I. The danger is great , if afflictions make not a man more humble and ...
Pàgina 125
... glory and immor- tality in the world to come . Thus I have given you a large letter of sound and good counsel : set your heart to it , and observe and remember it . We see how unstable our lives are ! You nor I know how soon either or ...
... glory and immor- tality in the world to come . Thus I have given you a large letter of sound and good counsel : set your heart to it , and observe and remember it . We see how unstable our lives are ! You nor I know how soon either or ...
Pàgina 128
... glory and praise by it , and a complacency in beholding a conformity in the creature , to his own most perfect will . To the due execution of this trust commit- ted to the children of men , and for their encouragement in it , he hath ...
... glory and praise by it , and a complacency in beholding a conformity in the creature , to his own most perfect will . To the due execution of this trust commit- ted to the children of men , and for their encouragement in it , he hath ...
Pàgina 131
... glory ; and he that hath less sur- plusage upon his account , shall have the less degree of glory and on the other side , he that hath many talents , and made no improvement , his debt and punishment shall be the greater ; he that hath ...
... glory ; and he that hath less sur- plusage upon his account , shall have the less degree of glory and on the other side , he that hath many talents , and made no improvement , his debt and punishment shall be the greater ; he that hath ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 83 - ... then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord ; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father : for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Pàgina 168 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Pàgina 83 - If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, From doing thy pleasure on my holy day ; And call the sabbath a delight, The holy of the Lord, honourable; And shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, Nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord...
Pàgina 28 - Let him that will, ascend the tottering seat Of courtly grandeur, and become as great As are his mounting wishes : as for me, Let sweet repose and rest my portion be ; Give me some mean, obscure recess, a sphere Out of the road of business, or the fear Of falling lower ; where I sweetly may Myself and dear retirement still enjoy : Let not my life or name be known unto The grandees of the time...
Pàgina 23 - Not to be solicitous what men will say or think, so long as I keep myself exactly according to the rule of justice. 13. If in criminals it be a measuring cast, to incline to mercy and acquittal.
Pàgina 50 - If any person, that you do not very well know to be a person of truth, sobriety and weight, relate strange stories, be not too ready or easy to believe them, nor report them after him. And yet, unless he be one of your familiar acquaintance, be not too forward to contradict him ; or, if the necessity of the occasion...
Pàgina 107 - Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
Pàgina 70 - I have found by a strict and diligent observation that a due observance 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 and prosperous to me...