The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone ...Prited by J. Hughs, for J. Dodsley, 1765 - Grace (Theology) |
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Page 91
... fuffer for the neglect of it , and therefore cannot but in- fift upon the merit of it . On the other hand , those who are born of God , are fenfible that it is the duty of every rational creature to love God with all his heart , and to ...
... fuffer for the neglect of it , and therefore cannot but in- fift upon the merit of it . On the other hand , those who are born of God , are fenfible that it is the duty of every rational creature to love God with all his heart , and to ...
Page 106
... fuffer it to be fmother- ed by contending weeds , nor deftroyed by the incle- mency of this tempeftuous climate , till it be transplanted into the milder regions of peace and ferenity above . SECT . III . The effects of regeneration ...
... fuffer it to be fmother- ed by contending weeds , nor deftroyed by the incle- mency of this tempeftuous climate , till it be transplanted into the milder regions of peace and ferenity above . SECT . III . The effects of regeneration ...
Page 211
... fuffer confcience to answer honeftly to the following interrogatories . Has your conviction of fin been fuch as to make you abhor and hate it , in every form ? Hath it been fuch as to make you refolve upon a thorough and perpetual ...
... fuffer confcience to answer honeftly to the following interrogatories . Has your conviction of fin been fuch as to make you abhor and hate it , in every form ? Hath it been fuch as to make you refolve upon a thorough and perpetual ...
Page 237
... fuffer the reproaches and challenges of his own mind , which make so great a part of the mifery of a guilty state . This receives additional ftrength , from a fe- cond confideration , that as he is juftified by faith , he hath peace ...
... fuffer the reproaches and challenges of his own mind , which make so great a part of the mifery of a guilty state . This receives additional ftrength , from a fe- cond confideration , that as he is juftified by faith , he hath peace ...
Page 248
... fuffer me only to ob- ferve these two things ; Firft , That a believer is under the conftant influence of gratitude to God and , fecondly , That this includes in it , and will tainly produce , the moft fincere and fervent love to all ...
... fuffer me only to ob- ferve these two things ; Firft , That a believer is under the conftant influence of gratitude to God and , fecondly , That this includes in it , and will tainly produce , the moft fincere and fervent love to all ...
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Popular passages
Page 265 - Except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God,
Page 159 - For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God ; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
Page 58 - And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love ; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Page 206 - But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Page 153 - Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Page 228 - Then said I, Lo, I come : in the volume of the book it is written of me ; I delight to do thy will, O my God : yea, thy law is within my heart.
Page 245 - Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
Page 171 - In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats ; to go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
Page 276 - Cursed is every one which continueth not in all things that are •written in the book of the law, to do them.
Page 241 - Abide in Me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can ye except ye abide in Me. I am the Vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. For without Me ye can do nothing.