A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians: In the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. By William Wilberforce, ...T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1798 - 307 páginas |
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... almost if not altogether neglected . It cannot be expected , that they who are fo little attentive to this great object in the education of their children , fhould be more fo in other parts of their conduct , where lefs ftrongly ...
... almost if not altogether neglected . It cannot be expected , that they who are fo little attentive to this great object in the education of their children , fhould be more fo in other parts of their conduct , where lefs ftrongly ...
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... almost every page we shall find something that is calcu- lated to abate the loftinefs and filence the pretenfions of man . " The imagination of " man's heart is evil from his youth . ” “ What " is man , that he fhould be clean and he ...
... almost every page we shall find something that is calcu- lated to abate the loftinefs and filence the pretenfions of man . " The imagination of " man's heart is evil from his youth . ” “ What " is man , that he fhould be clean and he ...
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... almost as well , on the fame principle , deny the reality of all other incorporeal beings . What is there , in truth , in the doctrine , which is in itfelf im- probable , or which is not confirmed by ana- logy ? We fee , in fact , that ...
... almost as well , on the fame principle , deny the reality of all other incorporeal beings . What is there , in truth , in the doctrine , which is in itfelf im- probable , or which is not confirmed by ana- logy ? We fee , in fact , that ...
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... almost unfea- fonably ; or at least to haften back to them with eagerness , when escaped from the ef- trangement imposed by the neceffary cares and business of life . He was a masterly de- scriber of human nature , who thus pourtrayed ...
... almost unfea- fonably ; or at least to haften back to them with eagerness , when escaped from the ef- trangement imposed by the neceffary cares and business of life . He was a masterly de- scriber of human nature , who thus pourtrayed ...
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... almost as it were by rote , affuming by turns the language of the deepest humiliation and of the warmest thankfulness , with a calm unaltered com- pofure ; and when the fervice of the day is ended , ended , they are dismissed altogether ...
... almost as it were by rote , affuming by turns the language of the deepest humiliation and of the warmest thankfulness , with a calm unaltered com- pofure ; and when the fervice of the day is ended , ended , they are dismissed altogether ...
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Página 390 - Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.
Página 42 - Because I have called and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded ; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity: I will mock when your fear cometh ; When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me...
Página 56 - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God : but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Página 444 - Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die. For I have not found thy works perfect before God.
Página 57 - What better can we do, than, to the place Repairing where he judged us, prostrate fall Before him reverent, and there confess Humbly our faults, and pardon beg, with tears Watering the ground, and with our sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite, in sign Of sorrow unfeign'd and humiliation meek?
Página 159 - Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches : but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth Me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth : for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.
Página 351 - From thee is all that soothes the life of man, His high endeavour, and his glad success, His strength to suffer, and his will to serve. But, O thou bounteous giver of all good, Thou art of all thy gifts thyself the crown ! Give what thou canst, without thee we are poor ; And with thee rich, take what thou wilt away.
Página 106 - in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Página 31 - ... of doing well we utterly renounce. We see how far we are from the perfect righteousness of the Law ; the little fruit which we have in holiness, it is, God knoweth, corrupt and unsound : we put no confidence at all in it, we challenge nothing in the world for it, we dare not call God to reckoning, as if we had him in our debtbooks : our continual suit to him is, and must be, to bear with our infirmities, and pardon our offences.
Página 329 - He that abideth in me, and I in him, the fame bringeth forth much fruit : for without me ye can do nothing.