The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety |
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... body united : And it being as well the mark as duty of every fingle Christian to grow in grace , 2 Pet . 3. 18. we may by all rules of Proportion , conclude that the collective maffe of fuch , the whole Church is by this time near ...
... body united : And it being as well the mark as duty of every fingle Christian to grow in grace , 2 Pet . 3. 18. we may by all rules of Proportion , conclude that the collective maffe of fuch , the whole Church is by this time near ...
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... body is not wholly unconfider- ed , though the addition of all temporal neceffaries be promised , yet even thofe are for the Souls fake , either to fecure it from the fin of folicitude and di- ftruft , or to preserve it a useful ...
... body is not wholly unconfider- ed , though the addition of all temporal neceffaries be promised , yet even thofe are for the Souls fake , either to fecure it from the fin of folicitude and di- ftruft , or to preserve it a useful ...
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... body , as may keep it in Tenantable repair : we have Chrifts exprefs promife for it , that to those that Seek the Kingdom of God , and his righteousness , all thefe things fhall be added : if not that fuperfluity which may opprefs and ...
... body , as may keep it in Tenantable repair : we have Chrifts exprefs promife for it , that to those that Seek the Kingdom of God , and his righteousness , all thefe things fhall be added : if not that fuperfluity which may opprefs and ...
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... Body upon any other ground , but that they knew not what after State to affign it . So that though they wanted not figures and sha- dows , or as the Apoftle calls them , patterns of Heavenly things , Heb . 9. 23. yet they feem'd not to ...
... Body upon any other ground , but that they knew not what after State to affign it . So that though they wanted not figures and sha- dows , or as the Apoftle calls them , patterns of Heavenly things , Heb . 9. 23. yet they feem'd not to ...
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... body was in the Laver ; and while the furface of the man was fprinkled with blood , the heart might be more beastial than those crea- tures who lent the ablution . And indeed if we confider their morality , we fhall find that outfide ...
... body was in the Laver ; and while the furface of the man was fprinkled with blood , the heart might be more beastial than those crea- tures who lent the ablution . And indeed if we confider their morality , we fhall find that outfide ...
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Page 5 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes : but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 405 - Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them; wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
Page 10 - For, we know that if our earthly houfe of this tabernacle were diflblved, we have a building of GOD, an houfe not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Page 236 - Let us fall into the hands of God, and not into the hands of men; for they are severe and cruel judges of each other.•
Page 406 - If there be therefore any confolation in Chrift, if any comfort. of love, if any fellow/hip of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies ; fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like minded, having the fame love, being of one accord, of one mind.
Page 247 - Certainly," says Bishop Fell, " the first propagators of our faith proceeded at another rate ; they well knew, that not the brain but'the heart was the proper soil of that celestial plant, and therefore did not amuse their proselytes with curious questions, but set them to the active part of their religion.