 | Richard Watson - 1791 - Liczba stron: 478
...interefts of religion, and of this church. "Would to God there were lefs need of expreffing a concera for them, than there is at prefent ! Men have always...complained of their own times : and always with, too VOL. VI. A much reafon. But though it is natural to think thofe evils the greaterf, which we feel ourfclves... | |
 | Thomas Secker - 1792 - Liczba stron: 604
...earlieftly defirous of being as ufeful to you all as he can ; and ferioufly concerned for the interefls of religion, and of this church. Would to God there...a concern for them, than there is at prefent ! Men Men have always complained of their own times ; and af^ ways with too much region. But though it is... | |
 | Thomas Secker - 1825 - Liczba stron: 546
...to God there were less need of expressing a concern for them, than there is at present f VOL. V. X Men have always complained of their own times : and always with too much reason. But though it is natural to think those evils the greatest, which we feel ourselves ; and therefore... | |
 | Thomas Jackson - 1839 - Liczba stron: 256
...second edition, t Advertisement prefixed to the first edition of the Analogy. ARCHBISHOP SECKER, 1738. " Men have always complained of their own times, and always with too much reason. But though it is natural to think those evils the greatest which we feel ourselves ; and therefore... | |
 | George H. Harwood - 1854 - Liczba stron: 266
...for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world." In 1738, Archbishop Seeker says, " Men have always complained of their own times, and always with too much reason. But though it is natural to think those evils the greatest which we feel ourselves, and therefore... | |
 | Holland Nimmons McTyeire - 1888 - Liczba stron: 742
...Archbishop Seeker, but one year before that which is commemorated as the epoch of Methodism, observes: Men have always complained of their own times, and always with too much reason. But though it is natural to think those evils the greatest which we feel ourselves, and therefore... | |
 | William Connor Sydney - 1891 - Liczba stron: 428
...Oxford, to the clergy of that diocese, his eyes would have alighted upon the following passage :— Men have always complained of their own times, and always with too much reason. But though it is natural to think those evils the greatest which we feel ourselves, and therefore... | |
 | Alfred Plummer - 1910 - Liczba stron: 268
...of former ones." 1 His friend Secker, in a Charge to the Oxford clergy in 1738, says much the same. "Men have always complained of their own times, and always with too much reason." But he thinks that there can be no doubt " that an open and profound disregard to religion... | |
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Men have always complained of their own times : and always with too much reason. But though it is natural to think those evils the greatest, which we feel ourselves ; and therefore mistakes are easily made, in comparing one age with another : yet in this... 