Discourses on several important subjects. To which are added, 8 sermons preached at the lady Moyer's lecture, in the cathedral church of st. Paul, London, Tom 11745 |
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Strona 11
... Action . The meanest Mechanick , who employs his Love and Gratitude , the best of his Affections , upon God , the best of Beings ; who has a particular Regard and Esteem for the virtu- gus Few , Compaffion for the Distressed , and a ...
... Action . The meanest Mechanick , who employs his Love and Gratitude , the best of his Affections , upon God , the best of Beings ; who has a particular Regard and Esteem for the virtu- gus Few , Compaffion for the Distressed , and a ...
Strona 12
... Actions ; than he who conquers Armies , or makes the moft glaring Figure in the Eye of an injudicious World . He is like one of the fixed Stars , which though , through the Disadvantage of it's Situation , it may be thought to be very ...
... Actions ; than he who conquers Armies , or makes the moft glaring Figure in the Eye of an injudicious World . He is like one of the fixed Stars , which though , through the Disadvantage of it's Situation , it may be thought to be very ...
Strona 15
... Diftrufts , and Jealoufies are unravelled , our Enemy's ill Actions and offenfive Behaviour , are foftened and qualified by feveral alleviat- SERM . I. ing Confiderations ; and his good Qualities ing fated and explained . 15.
... Diftrufts , and Jealoufies are unravelled , our Enemy's ill Actions and offenfive Behaviour , are foftened and qualified by feveral alleviat- SERM . I. ing Confiderations ; and his good Qualities ing fated and explained . 15.
Strona 20
... Actions oft- en bad , and his Thoughts worse than " his Actions . What then ? Muft I love no body , because every body has his " Faults ? No : But this is my fettled Per- " fuafion . Man however faulty , as long " as he fins against ...
... Actions oft- en bad , and his Thoughts worse than " his Actions . What then ? Muft I love no body , because every body has his " Faults ? No : But this is my fettled Per- " fuafion . Man however faulty , as long " as he fins against ...
Strona 21
... Actions . As to the first Set of Men ; it is certain that the fame Power of Mind , which ena- bles them to fufpend the Prosecution of their revengeful Designs till a commodious Op- portunity , enables them likewise to get the better of ...
... Actions . As to the first Set of Men ; it is certain that the fame Power of Mind , which ena- bles them to fufpend the Prosecution of their revengeful Designs till a commodious Op- portunity , enables them likewise to get the better of ...
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Actions againſt anſwer Beauty becauſe Benevolence beſt Bleffings Cafe Cauſe Chriftian Confequence confider Confideration confiftent Courſe Daniel Waterland Defire Deity Diverfions Duty eafy eaſy Efteem elſe endeavour faid fame feems feldom felves ferve fettled feveral fhall fhew firſt folid fome fomething fometimes foon ftand ftill fuch fuffer fure give Goodneſs greateſt habitual Happineſs happy Heart himſelf Honour Ideas IIdly Inftance intereſted Irreligion itſelf juft juſt laft laſt leaft leaſt lefs Love Luftre Malice Mankind Meaſure Mifery Mind moft Morality moſt muft muſt Nature neceffary nefs never obferved occafional ourſelves Paffion Perfon Piety pleaſe Pleaſure pray Prayer prefent Principle publick racter raiſe Reaſon Religion Senfe Senſe SER.XIII SER.XIV SER.XVI SERM ſhall ſhould ſome Soul ſpeak Spirit ſuch Temper thefe themſelves theſe Things thofe thoſe Thoughts tion Truth ture Underſtanding uneafy univerfal unleſs uſe Vice Virtue whofe Wiſdom World
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Strona 302 - Almighty Lord, who is a most strong tower to all them that put their trust in him, to whom all things in heaven, in earth, and under the earth, do bow and obey...
Strona 208 - The fire of a glowing imagination (the property of youth) may make folly look pleasing, and lend a beauty to objects, which have none inherent in them ; just as the sun-beams may paint a cloud, and diversify it with beautiful stains of light, however dark, unsubstantial, and empty in itself. But nothing...
Strona 9 - For if ye love them which love you, what reward have you ? do not even the publicans the same ? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others?
Strona 41 - Neither was it mine adversary that did magnify himself against me; for then peradventure I would have hid myself from him : 14 But it was even thou, my companion, my guide, and mine own familiar friend.
Strona 218 - ... humanity and generosity which are necessary to become a great fortune ; and of all those perfections, viz., moderation, humility, and temperance, which are necessary to bear a small one patiently ; but especially it is your duty to acquire a taste for those pleasures which, after they are tasted, go off agreeably, and leave behind them a grateful and delightful flavour on the mind.
Strona 213 - Senfe is like current Coin ; we have, every Day, in the ordinary Occurrences of Life...
Strona 219 - The justly valuing and duly using the Advantages enjoyed in a Place of Education. One considerable advantage is, that regular method of study, too much neglected in other places, which obtains here. Nothing is more common elsewhere, than for persons to plunge, at once, into the very depth of science, (far beyond their own,) without having learned the first rudiments : nothing more common, than for some to pass...
Strona 209 - But nothing can shine with undiminished lustre, but religion and knowledge, which are essentially and intrinsically bright. Take it therefore for granted, which you will find by -experience, that nothing can be long entertaining, but what is in some measure beneficial ; because nothing else will bear a calm and sedate review.
Strona 227 - ... thofe excellent Books, which contain a Confutation of them ; like Infects preferved for Ages in Amber, which otherwife would foon have returned to the common Mafs of Things. But a firm Belief of Chriftianity and a Practice fuitable to it will fupport and invigorate the Mind to the...
Strona 217 - ... though nothing merely in order to be commended. That time, which others must employ in tilling the ground (which often deceives their expectation) with the sweat of their brow, they may lay out in cultivating the mind, a soil always grateful to the care of the tiller. The sum of what I would say...