A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of ChristiansT. Bedlington, 1821 - 274 pàgines |
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Pàgina 28
... strict duty to live by reason , to devote all the actions of our lives to God , were it not absolutely necessary to walk before him in wisdom and holiness and all heavenly conversation , doing every thing in his name , and for his glory ...
... strict duty to live by reason , to devote all the actions of our lives to God , were it not absolutely necessary to walk before him in wisdom and holiness and all heavenly conversation , doing every thing in his name , and for his glory ...
Pàgina 30
... strict principles of reason and piety , and yet at the same time neglect all prayer , whether public or private , should we not be amazed at such a man , and wonder how he could have so much folly along with so much religion ? Yet this ...
... strict principles of reason and piety , and yet at the same time neglect all prayer , whether public or private , should we not be amazed at such a man , and wonder how he could have so much folly along with so much religion ? Yet this ...
Pàgina 38
... strict in it , because it is your full intention to be So. And when you as fully intend to be like them in their ordinary common life , when you intend to please God in all your acuons , you will find it as possible as to be strictly ...
... strict in it , because it is your full intention to be So. And when you as fully intend to be like them in their ordinary common life , when you intend to please God in all your acuons , you will find it as possible as to be strictly ...
Pàgina 47
... strict perfection , so the law to our imperfect nature is the best obedience that our frail nature is able to perform . The measure of our love to God seems in justice to be the measure of our love of every virtue . We are to love and ...
... strict perfection , so the law to our imperfect nature is the best obedience that our frail nature is able to perform . The measure of our love to God seems in justice to be the measure of our love of every virtue . We are to love and ...
Pàgina 48
... strict and tender about every part of our duty , constantly examining how we live , and how fit we are to die , we shall in all probabil- ity fall into a state of negligence , and sit down in such a course of life as will never carry us ...
... strict and tender about every part of our duty , constantly examining how we live , and how fit we are to die , we shall in all probabil- ity fall into a state of negligence , and sit down in such a course of life as will never carry us ...
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A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition ... William Law Visualització completa - 1821 |
A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition ... William Law Visualització completa - 1821 |
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Pàgina 83 - Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was an hungered and ye gave me no meat ; I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink ; I was a stranger and ye took me not in ; naked and ye clothed me not ; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Pàgina 186 - Yet, O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mighty, O holy and most merciful Saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death.
Pàgina 181 - I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air : but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection : lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Pàgina 92 - And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
Pàgina 117 - Lord: 33 But he that is married caretb for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. 34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy, both in body and in spirit : but she that is married, careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
Pàgina 146 - Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed : and I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth : lo, there thou hast that is thine.
Pàgina 83 - ... and before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand. Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world...
Pàgina 227 - IF ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth : For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Pàgina xv - A Demonstration of the gross and fundamental Errors of a late Book, called, "A plain Account of the Nature and End of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper," affectionately addressed to all Orders of Men, and more especially to all the younger Clergy, 1735,
Pàgina 314 - Lord thine oaths: but I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne: nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King. Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay; for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.