Addresses to the DeityT. Spilsbury, 1785 - 232 pàgines |
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Pàgina 205 - Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein : Then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice Before the LORD : for HE cometh, For HE cometh to judge the earth : HE shall judge the world with righteousness, And the people with his truth.
Pàgina 7 - Thou viliteft him? For Thou haft made him a little lower than the angels, and haft crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madeft him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands ; Thou haft put all things under his feet...
Pàgina 215 - ... communed with his own heart upon his bed," and examined himself in the view of his last and great account, he saw wherein he had offended. Then it was, that I heard him condemn, with holy self-abasement, the pride of understanding by which he had often trespassed against the laws of courteous demeanour, and forgotten the fallible condition of his nature. Then it was, that I heard him, with ingenuous freedom, commend the virtues of forbearance and moderation in matters of belief, as more conformable...
Pàgina 126 - For it became him, by whom are all things, and for whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings,
Pàgina vi - ... neither, or who purpofely avoid every thing of that kind, from an aim at fimplicity mifunderftood, or perhaps from a fear of being thought too warm, in an age of fafhionable indifference and falfe refinement. Wherever the vital and unadulterated fpirit of Chriftian Devotion prevails, its immediate object will be to pleafe Him whom we...
Pàgina 42 - ... let us be glad and rejoice, for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. Would ever I have thought that the fear of suffering and of death, could be so taken from me ? But what shall I say to it ? It is the doing of the Lord, and marvellous in our eyes.
Pàgina 154 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise ; and the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty...
Pàgina vii - Chriil ; by interceding for our brethren of mankind ; by praying for the propagation and eftablifhment of truth, righteoufnefs, and peace on earth ; in fine, by longing for a more entire conformity to the will of God, and breathing after the everlafting enjoyment of his friendfhip. The effects of fuch a fpirit habitually cherifhed, and feelingly exprefled before him, with conceptions more or lefs enlarged and elevated, in language more or lefs emphatical and accurate, fententious or diffufe, muft...
Pàgina 231 - O death, where is thy sting? O hell, where is thy victory? Thanks be to God, who hath given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Pàgina viii - God, a high veneration for his prefence and attributes, an ardent zeal for his worfliip and honour, an affectionate faith in the Saviour of the world, a confiant imitation of his divine example, a diffufive charity for men of all denominations, a generous and unwearied felf-denial for the fake of virtue and fociety, a total refignation to Providence, an increafing...