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 12
... religion he loved to reason , not rashly or with presumption , but according to that in- tellectual scale by which God has permitted us to estimate things so far above mortal reach and he had this proof given him of the propriety of his ...
... religion he loved to reason , not rashly or with presumption , but according to that in- tellectual scale by which God has permitted us to estimate things so far above mortal reach and he had this proof given him of the propriety of his ...
Pàgina 13
... religion ; and because he could better follow the order of his thoughts when he wrote them down , as well as for the sake of improving himself by their subsequent peru- sal , he was accustomed to commit them to paper at the time ...
... religion ; and because he could better follow the order of his thoughts when he wrote them down , as well as for the sake of improving himself by their subsequent peru- sal , he was accustomed to commit them to paper at the time ...
Pàgina 34
... religion , that he was careful to make no great professions , wishing that his deeds , rather than his tongue , should make known his faith ; and humbly fearing lest by any means he should at last fall away , and cause the religion of ...
... religion , that he was careful to make no great professions , wishing that his deeds , rather than his tongue , should make known his faith ; and humbly fearing lest by any means he should at last fall away , and cause the religion of ...
Pàgina 36
... their favour , with which , as his own children , we should have received them ; and , by the blessing of Heaven , they will not fail of producing a good effect . LETTER I. ON RELIGION . DEAR CHILDREN , I INTENDED 36.
... their favour , with which , as his own children , we should have received them ; and , by the blessing of Heaven , they will not fail of producing a good effect . LETTER I. ON RELIGION . DEAR CHILDREN , I INTENDED 36.
Pàgina 37
Matthew Hale. LETTER I. ON RELIGION . DEAR CHILDREN , I INTENDED to have been at Alderley this Whitsuntide , desirous to renew those Counsels and Advices which I have often given you , in order to your greatest concernment ; namely , the ...
Matthew Hale. LETTER I. ON RELIGION . DEAR CHILDREN , I INTENDED to have been at Alderley this Whitsuntide , desirous to renew those Counsels and Advices which I have often given you , in order to your greatest concernment ; namely , the ...
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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...