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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... fhall exprefs , if they be found mistaken . Here , if he be in an er- ror , he freely acknowledges it to be a deli- berate error . He would indeed account himfelf unpardonable were he to obtrude upon the public his firft crude thoughts ...
... fhall exprefs , if they be found mistaken . Here , if he be in an er- ror , he freely acknowledges it to be a deli- berate error . He would indeed account himfelf unpardonable were he to obtrude upon the public his firft crude thoughts ...
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... fhall now at length receive its full though tardy vindication . " These however , " it may be re- plied , " are excepted cafes . " Certainly they are cafes of which , because they clearly ex- pose the unfoundness of his principle , any ...
... fhall now at length receive its full though tardy vindication . " These however , " it may be re- plied , " are excepted cafes . " Certainly they are cafes of which , because they clearly ex- pose the unfoundness of his principle , any ...
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... fhall find , knock and it fhall be open- ❝ed unto you ; Ho ! every one that thirfteth , 66 come ye to the waters ; " fuch are the com- fortable affurances , fuch the gracious encou- ragements to the truly fincere inquirer . How deep ...
... fhall find , knock and it fhall be open- ❝ed unto you ; Ho ! every one that thirfteth , 66 come ye to the waters ; " fuch are the com- fortable affurances , fuch the gracious encou- ragements to the truly fincere inquirer . How deep ...
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... fhall fall , may not have be- ftowed much attention . If the cafe be fo , it may be requifite to intreat them to lend a patient and a ferious ear . The fubject is of the deepest import . Nor are we afraid of going too far when we affert ...
... fhall fall , may not have be- ftowed much attention . If the cafe be fo , it may be requifite to intreat them to lend a patient and a ferious ear . The fubject is of the deepest import . Nor are we afraid of going too far when we affert ...
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... fhall have expired . " I , bone , quo virtus tua te vocat , i pede faufto , " Grandia laturus meritorum præmia . " BUT we have indulged too long in these delightful fpeculations ; a fad reverse pre- fents itself on our furvey of the ...
... fhall have expired . " I , bone , quo virtus tua te vocat , i pede faufto , " Grandia laturus meritorum præmia . " BUT we have indulged too long in these delightful fpeculations ; a fad reverse pre- fents itself on our furvey of the ...
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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.