The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone ...Prited by J. Hughs, for J. Dodsley, 1765 |
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Página 17
... true religion is con- fidered as a new creation , and a second birth ? If the infpired writers be allowed to exprefs them- felves either with propriety or truth , it is painful to think of the unhappy deluded state of so great a number ...
... true religion is con- fidered as a new creation , and a second birth ? If the infpired writers be allowed to exprefs them- felves either with propriety or truth , it is painful to think of the unhappy deluded state of so great a number ...
Página 18
... truth : true religion is not given to oftentation ; diffident of itfelf , it is un- willing to promise much , left it should be found wanting . But it ought to be confidered that , however concealed the inward principle may be , the ...
... truth : true religion is not given to oftentation ; diffident of itfelf , it is un- willing to promise much , left it should be found wanting . But it ought to be confidered that , however concealed the inward principle may be , the ...
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... true religion . Are there not many cuftomary Chriftians who have a form of godliness , and , though they are ut ter ftrangers to communion with God , yet nothing will induce them to part with their form . Are there not many whom it ...
... true religion . Are there not many cuftomary Chriftians who have a form of godliness , and , though they are ut ter ftrangers to communion with God , yet nothing will induce them to part with their form . Are there not many whom it ...
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... true religion . I have faid only , that the obedience or reformation which flows from no higher principle , is not fuch as will be accept- able to God ; it is not that change which is ne- ceffary before we can enter into life eternal ...
... true religion . I have faid only , that the obedience or reformation which flows from no higher principle , is not fuch as will be accept- able to God ; it is not that change which is ne- ceffary before we can enter into life eternal ...
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... true religion must be in itself amiable and lovely . Nay it must appear fo even in the eyes of those who are engaged in a stated oppofition to its intereft . You will fay , how is this poffible ? Is it not a manifeft contradiction ? I ...
... true religion must be in itself amiable and lovely . Nay it must appear fo even in the eyes of those who are engaged in a stated oppofition to its intereft . You will fay , how is this poffible ? Is it not a manifeft contradiction ? I ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 265 - Except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God,
Página 159 - For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God ; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
Página 58 - And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love ; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Página 206 - But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Página 153 - Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Página 228 - Then said I, Lo, I come : in the volume of the book it is written of me ; I delight to do thy will, O my God : yea, thy law is within my heart.
Página 245 - Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
Página 171 - In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats ; to go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
Página 276 - Cursed is every one which continueth not in all things that are •written in the book of the law, to do them.
Página 241 - Abide in Me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can ye except ye abide in Me. I am the Vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. For without Me ye can do nothing.