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Pagina 56
Or if , lastly , we place our happiness in virtue and the service of God ( delightful
as the exercise is , confortable as a sense of the Divine approbation must be to a
dependent creature ! ) yet how often do clouds arise to interrupt the comforts and
...
Or if , lastly , we place our happiness in virtue and the service of God ( delightful
as the exercise is , confortable as a sense of the Divine approbation must be to a
dependent creature ! ) yet how often do clouds arise to interrupt the comforts and
...
Pagina 77
doubts , whether the bliss , here promised to patient virtue , be not properly
everlasting , so every one is led to infer , that the punishment , here threatened to
disobedience , is of equal duration . Nay , when the scripture expresses the
infinite ...
doubts , whether the bliss , here promised to patient virtue , be not properly
everlasting , so every one is led to infer , that the punishment , here threatened to
disobedience , is of equal duration . Nay , when the scripture expresses the
infinite ...
Pagina 102
The world could not subsist without the practice of virtue . Happiness , as far as
we can enjoy it in this imperfect state , is wholly the effect of virtue : vice is the
cause of our principal and worst distresses . If a nation flourishes , it is virtue , that
...
The world could not subsist without the practice of virtue . Happiness , as far as
we can enjoy it in this imperfect state , is wholly the effect of virtue : vice is the
cause of our principal and worst distresses . If a nation flourishes , it is virtue , that
...
Pagina 103
Examine into the causes , and you will find , that industry , temperance , justice
and other virtues have occasioned the prosperity - while ... We cannot have a
better proof , that the author of nature is engaged in general on the side of virtue .
Examine into the causes , and you will find , that industry , temperance , justice
and other virtues have occasioned the prosperity - while ... We cannot have a
better proof , that the author of nature is engaged in general on the side of virtue .
Pagina 106
We thall enter fully into the views of the text , if we consider the different feelings
of vice and virtue , in the two grand states of human life , prosperity and adversity
. In general , wickedness , upon the lowest calculation , has not greater ...
We thall enter fully into the views of the text , if we consider the different feelings
of vice and virtue , in the two grand states of human life , prosperity and adversity
. In general , wickedness , upon the lowest calculation , has not greater ...
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Pagina 101 - Although the fig-tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines : the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; The flock shall be cut off from the fold : and there shall be no herd in the stalls ; Yet I will rejoice in the Lord : I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Pagina 185 - Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which Is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
Pagina 295 - Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
Pagina 239 - Wherefore I put thee in remembrance, that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee, by the putting on of my hands.
Pagina 86 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, He taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Pagina 189 - And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
Pagina 191 - Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Pagina 360 - ALMIGHTY God, who shewest to them that be in error the light of Thy truth, to the intent that they may return into the way of righteousness ; Grant unto all them that are admitted into the fellowship of Christ's Religion, that they may eschew those things that are contrary to their profession, and follow all such things as are agreeable to the same ; through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Pagina 274 - Though the common experience and the ordinary course of things have justly a mighty influence on the minds of men, to make them give or refuse credit to any thing proposed to their belief; yet there is one case, wherein the strangeness of the fact lessens not the assent to a fair testimony given of it. For where such supernatural events are suitable to ends aimed at by him, who has the power to change the course of nature, there, under...
Pagina 233 - The wind bloweth where it lifteth, and thou heareft the found thereof, but canft not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth ; fo is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Sermons on Several Important Subjects Eighteenth century collections online |
| Auteur | William Farington |
| Uitgever | William Eyres, 1769 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | de New York Public Library |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 24 juli 2006 |
| Lengte | 360 pagina's |
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