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 71
... Deity to a Nation . So may He , who maketh Men to be of one Mind in an Houfe , preferve you from all the Miseries , that muft fall upon a Family embroiled , and a Houfe divided against itself ! Thus , when you have tinctured their Minds ...
... Deity to a Nation . So may He , who maketh Men to be of one Mind in an Houfe , preferve you from all the Miseries , that muft fall upon a Family embroiled , and a Houfe divided against itself ! Thus , when you have tinctured their Minds ...
Strona 76
... Deity in any one known Point , 46 is in effect to disclaim all Obedience to " him . " For can that Man be influenced by a reverential Awe of the Deity who not occafionally , now and then , in an unguarded Hour , is overtaken in a Fault ...
... Deity in any one known Point , 46 is in effect to disclaim all Obedience to " him . " For can that Man be influenced by a reverential Awe of the Deity who not occafionally , now and then , in an unguarded Hour , is overtaken in a Fault ...
Strona 103
... Deity : Otherwife , their reigning Paffion will infenfibly mix with their Reasonings ; and have as great a Hand in forming their Notions , as it has in con- ducting their Lives . We fhall view the Deity , not as he is in his own Nature ...
... Deity : Otherwife , their reigning Paffion will infenfibly mix with their Reasonings ; and have as great a Hand in forming their Notions , as it has in con- ducting their Lives . We fhall view the Deity , not as he is in his own Nature ...
Strona 105
... Deity pub- lished an Act of Indemnity to Mankind in general without any Amendment of Life ; this would have been to have left Virtue defenceless , and Vice triumphant : Had he on the other Hand refolved to confign all Sinners to Mifery ...
... Deity pub- lished an Act of Indemnity to Mankind in general without any Amendment of Life ; this would have been to have left Virtue defenceless , and Vice triumphant : Had he on the other Hand refolved to confign all Sinners to Mifery ...
Strona 153
... Deity may adminifter not what is palatable , but what is falutary to us , who have no Health in us : And the Longings of a distempered feverish Soul are no more to be gratified , than the Longings of a fick feverish Body , without ...
... Deity may adminifter not what is palatable , but what is falutary to us , who have no Health in us : And the Longings of a distempered feverish Soul are no more to be gratified , than the Longings of a fick feverish Body , without ...
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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...