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Strona 255
A LL the temptations of fin arise M from present objects ; and as faith in the distant
objects of religion is the most effectual , if not the only , means of
counterbalancing their influence ; it is of the utmost importance , to have right
apprehensions ...
A LL the temptations of fin arise M from present objects ; and as faith in the distant
objects of religion is the most effectual , if not the only , means of
counterbalancing their influence ; it is of the utmost importance , to have right
apprehensions ...
Strona 275
The object may , perhaps , be a matter of indifference : we may not have leisure
or inclination to weigh the evidences upon which its credibility credit themselves ,
but give it also to other truths , which need such confirmation . Besides those we ...
The object may , perhaps , be a matter of indifference : we may not have leisure
or inclination to weigh the evidences upon which its credibility credit themselves ,
but give it also to other truths , which need such confirmation . Besides those we ...
Strona 306
God knows , to frail creatures , so much conversant with sensible objects which
are ever spreading their dazzling temptations before our eyes . ... Is the preserva :
« tion of my virtue and innocence my “ first and principal object ? Do my “ worldly
...
God knows , to frail creatures , so much conversant with sensible objects which
are ever spreading their dazzling temptations before our eyes . ... Is the preserva :
« tion of my virtue and innocence my “ first and principal object ? Do my “ worldly
...
Strona 322
themselves in a spontaneous manner : their feeds are scattered every where
around us in the common objects and customs of a wicked world : we cannot
converse with the world , without taking then in , at some busy sense or other : the
rank ...
themselves in a spontaneous manner : their feeds are scattered every where
around us in the common objects and customs of a wicked world : we cannot
converse with the world , without taking then in , at some busy sense or other : the
rank ...
Strona 323
The sense of moral decency and shame are equally blind : habit perverts them
and fixes them upon improper objects . And reason and religion , which are
designed to regulate and direct these blind principles , if not cultivated very soon ,
will ...
The sense of moral decency and shame are equally blind : habit perverts them
and fixes them upon improper objects . And reason and religion , which are
designed to regulate and direct these blind principles , if not cultivated very soon ,
will ...
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Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 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...
Strona 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.