Extracts from the Religious Works of Monsr François Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon, Archbishop of Cambray: Tr. from the Original FrenchJ. Hatchard, 1809 - 291 pàgines |
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Pàgina 5
... virtue , and yet forfeit the first step in your duty - an im- plicit reliance on God for every thing ? Would you have God , the incomprehen- sible , the infinite God , subject himself to the limited faculties of the creature whom he has ...
... virtue , and yet forfeit the first step in your duty - an im- plicit reliance on God for every thing ? Would you have God , the incomprehen- sible , the infinite God , subject himself to the limited faculties of the creature whom he has ...
Pàgina 14
... resistance . Not the Tempter ; for of what value is that virtue which has never been tried ? -Indeed , we have only the doubts . and assertions of man against this state- ment ; and we cannot but confess the justice of 14.
... resistance . Not the Tempter ; for of what value is that virtue which has never been tried ? -Indeed , we have only the doubts . and assertions of man against this state- ment ; and we cannot but confess the justice of 14.
Pàgina 20
... truly religious disposition shews itself in the performance of the duties and virtues which belong to our peculiar situations in the world . If we make it our constant endeavour to serve God to the utmost of our power , and to 20.
... truly religious disposition shews itself in the performance of the duties and virtues which belong to our peculiar situations in the world . If we make it our constant endeavour to serve God to the utmost of our power , and to 20.
Pàgina 22
... virtue , what is to become of us ? The most debased and foolish passions which possess us , arise from attachments wrongly placed . God created us to love him and to obey him ; and if we pervert our natural love of vir- tue by our ...
... virtue , what is to become of us ? The most debased and foolish passions which possess us , arise from attachments wrongly placed . God created us to love him and to obey him ; and if we pervert our natural love of vir- tue by our ...
Pàgina 27
... virtues , and the performance of our duties . Our Lord Jesus Christ , who knew his disciples better than they did them- selves , told them , that they were not able , in their present state , to bear all that he had to say to them . And ...
... virtues , and the performance of our duties . Our Lord Jesus Christ , who knew his disciples better than they did them- selves , told them , that they were not able , in their present state , to bear all that he had to say to them . And ...
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Pàgina 75 - O that men would therefore praise the LORD for His goodness : and declare the wonders that He doeth for the children of men...
Pàgina 121 - My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
Pàgina 275 - Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
Pàgina 136 - For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time, are not worthy to be compared with the glory, which shall be revealed in us.
Pàgina 53 - For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Pàgina 265 - ... so ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: for we are members of his body, of his flesh and of his bones.
Pàgina 217 - And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee : then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided ? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
Pàgina 60 - Then it will appear, what was meant by the man that comes without the wedding garment; for that is the day spoken of, Matt. xxii. 13. wherein such an one shall be bound hand and foot, and cast into outer darkness, where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Pàgina 16 - Father, who wouldest not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live...
Pàgina 90 - being cast into hell, where the worm dieth not, and where the fire is not quenched.