 We have, however, a plain precept to follow, which is, to do our duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call us.  Nobly false - Page 184by James McGrigor Allan - 1863Full view - About this book
 | rev. John Brougham - Sermons, English - 1813 - 344 pages
...pains to correct, but to love justice and mercy, and to walk humbly before God ; to endeavour quietly to do our duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call us ; and to the end that we may never deviate from the path of virtue unapprized of our danger, the providence... | |
 | Richard Mant - Apologetics - 1813 - 440 pages
...knees, to the neglect of our ordinary business; without a proper attention to which we cannot be doing our duty in that state of life, to which it has pleased God to call us. If however we are not hereby called upon to be always actually praying, we are required to be always... | |
 | Sermons - 1827 - 428 pages
...glory to our Master, or wish to appropriate part to ourselves ? For instance, when doing any duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call us, we may satisfy our fellow-men, and gain their approbation, but if we neglect to thank God for giving... | |
 | Irish pulpit - 1827 - 600 pages
...glory to our Master, or wish to appropriate part to ourselves ? For instance, when doing any duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call us, we may satisfy our fellow-men, and gain their approbation, but if we neglect to thank God for giving... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 276 pages
...natural temper and good spirits, or, in better words than mine, a disposition to ' be contented in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call us.' " "I never heard the catechism better enforced," said De Vere, smiling; " but there mifst still either... | |
 | William Dealtry - 1827 - 700 pages
...reasonable attention to those pursuits which our situation demands. We are bound to do our duty in the state of life to which it has pleased God to call us. But He does, in the most decisive terms, call upon us to make the concerns of the soul the first object,... | |
 | 1827 - 590 pages
...reasonable attention to those pursuits which our situation demands. We are bound to do our duty in the state of life to which it has pleased God to call us. But He does, in the most decisive terms, call upon us to make the concerns of the soul the first object,... | |
 | Lucy Lyttelton Cameron - 1828 - 140 pages
...as simplicity and singleness of conduct. By this I mean a steady, regular desire to please God, and do our duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call us; and that, whether we gain or lose by the good things of this life, and whether the world approves of... | |
 | Samuel Wilderspin - Education - 1829 - 346 pages
...authority, or create an unwillingness toward useful labour. One of the first duties of Christianity, is to do our duty in that state of life to which it has pleased G God to call us. It is the ignorance or disbelief of this dispensation of providence which is the... | |
 | Working class - 1831 - 186 pages
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