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, (successors to Mr. Cadell), 1798 - 502 páginas |
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... The common fort of Chriftianity does not deferve the name 434-5 Some confiderations preparatory to felf - examination ; one of them peculiarly awful - 435-7 Caufes Caufes of felf - deception fuggefted 437 One cause of Xiv CONTENTS .
... The common fort of Chriftianity does not deferve the name 434-5 Some confiderations preparatory to felf - examination ; one of them peculiarly awful - 435-7 Caufes Caufes of felf - deception fuggefted 437 One cause of Xiv CONTENTS .
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... cause of self - deception , the miftaking our merely out- growing or changing our vices , for forfaking all fin ; appeal to life - - 438-42 Charge of being uncharitable repelled , and what really charity and uncharitableness 443-4 Women ...
... cause of self - deception , the miftaking our merely out- growing or changing our vices , for forfaking all fin ; appeal to life - - 438-42 Charge of being uncharitable repelled , and what really charity and uncharitableness 443-4 Women ...
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... cause which has been affigned , does abundantly , and can alone fufficiently account for the effect . It appears then , that the cor- ruption of human nature is proved by the fame mode of reafoning , as that which hath been deemed ...
... cause which has been affigned , does abundantly , and can alone fufficiently account for the effect . It appears then , that the cor- ruption of human nature is proved by the fame mode of reafoning , as that which hath been deemed ...
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... cause I have called , and ye refused ; I have " ftretched out my hand , and no man re- garded ; but ye have fet at nought all my 66 counfel , and would none of my reproof ; I " alfo will laugh at your calamity ; I will " mock when your ...
... cause I have called , and ye refused ; I have " ftretched out my hand , and no man re- garded ; but ye have fet at nought all my 66 counfel , and would none of my reproof ; I " alfo will laugh at your calamity ; I will " mock when your ...
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... cause , the fad inftances of vice and folly of which we read , or which we fee around us , or to which we feel the propensities in our own bosoms ; ever vigilant and diftruftful of ourselves , and looking with an eye of kindness and ...
... cause , the fad inftances of vice and folly of which we read , or which we fee around us , or to which we feel the propensities in our own bosoms ; ever vigilant and diftruftful of ourselves , and looking with an eye of kindness and ...
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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.