Twelve Discourses: Delivered Chiefly at the Meeting-house of the People Called Quakers, in the Park, Southwark |
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... render themselves the proper objects of divine complacence , and furnish them with a well - grounded hope of a happy and glo- rious immortality . The honest and fincere , in every nation . under heaven , have formed different ideas of ...
... render themselves the proper objects of divine complacence , and furnish them with a well - grounded hope of a happy and glo- rious immortality . The honest and fincere , in every nation . under heaven , have formed different ideas of ...
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... render us un- fit for those contemplations , and that fu- preme felicity , which are adapted to the dignity of rational and immortal spirits . God , in his wifdom , hath made man a lit- tle ( and perhaps but a little ) lower than the ...
... render us un- fit for those contemplations , and that fu- preme felicity , which are adapted to the dignity of rational and immortal spirits . God , in his wifdom , hath made man a lit- tle ( and perhaps but a little ) lower than the ...
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... render it an unfit habitation for his holinefs to dwell in . As our own backflidings have frequently corrected us , and covered our minds with anxiety , let our future conduct , directed by his grace , atone for what is past , and , by ...
... render it an unfit habitation for his holinefs to dwell in . As our own backflidings have frequently corrected us , and covered our minds with anxiety , let our future conduct , directed by his grace , atone for what is past , and , by ...
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... high- prieft , the life and light of men . They have attempted to render that mysterious which the Holy Ghost has left clear , and to perplex perplex the understandings of men with vain metaphyfical fpeculations , ( 25 )
... high- prieft , the life and light of men . They have attempted to render that mysterious which the Holy Ghost has left clear , and to perplex perplex the understandings of men with vain metaphyfical fpeculations , ( 25 )
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... render us fuccefsful candidates for an inheritance that is incorruptible and that fadeth not away . But it is clear to me , beyond the leaft doubt , that our Lord defigned , throughout the whole of his ministry , to excite and to ...
... render us fuccefsful candidates for an inheritance that is incorruptible and that fadeth not away . But it is clear to me , beyond the leaft doubt , that our Lord defigned , throughout the whole of his ministry , to excite and to ...
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Page 47 - And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; and in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
Page 158 - For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
Page 118 - Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
Page 237 - God blameless, giving all diligence to make your calling and election sure : add to your faith virtue : to virtue knowledge ; to knowledge temperance ; to temperance patience ; to patience godliness ; to godliness brotherly kindness; to brotherly kindness charity.
Page 226 - Corinthians he has thefc words, * though I fpeak with the tongues of men ' and of angels, and have not charity, I am •' become as founding brafs or a tinkling * cymbal.
Page 245 - Create in me a clean heart, 0 GOD ; And renew a right spirit within me.
Page 203 - I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; for kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
Page 273 - make you clean, put away the evil of your " doings from before mine eyes, ceafe to " do evil, learn to do well, feek judgment, " relieve the oppreffed, judge the fatherlefs,
Page 232 - We have left undone the things we ought to have done ; and we have done the things we ought not to have done ; and there is no health in us.
Page 172 - they fing the fong of Mofes the fervant of God, and the fong