Ecclesiastical Biography: Or, Lives of Eminent Men, Connected with the History of Religion in England; from the Commencement of the Reformation to the Revolution, Volume 4F. & J. Rivington, 1853 - Christian biography |
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... kind ; and then to say with the blessed Virgin , That their souls do magnify the Lord , and that their spirits do also rejoice in God their Saviour . And that it was their duty also to rejoice with Simeon in his song , and say with him ...
... kind ; and then to say with the blessed Virgin , That their souls do magnify the Lord , and that their spirits do also rejoice in God their Saviour . And that it was their duty also to rejoice with Simeon in his song , and say with him ...
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... kind hereafter : " and indeed the king did so most of those two and twenty years of his reign ; but before he dismist Octavio Baldi from his present attendance upon him , he restored him to his old name of Henry Wotton , by which he ...
... kind hereafter : " and indeed the king did so most of those two and twenty years of his reign ; but before he dismist Octavio Baldi from his present attendance upon him , he restored him to his old name of Henry Wotton , by which he ...
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... kind , and more money than enough ; where he was freed from all corroding cares , and seated on such a rock , as the waves of want could not probably shake ; where he might sit in a calm , and looking down , behold the busy multitude ...
... kind , and more money than enough ; where he was freed from all corroding cares , and seated on such a rock , as the waves of want could not probably shake ; where he might sit in a calm , and looking down , behold the busy multitude ...
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... kind of tempestuous life , I now have the like advantage from him , that makes the out - goings of the morning to praise him ; even from my God , whom I daily magnify for this particular mercy , of an exemption from business , a quiet ...
... kind of tempestuous life , I now have the like advantage from him , that makes the out - goings of the morning to praise him ; even from my God , whom I daily magnify for this particular mercy , of an exemption from business , a quiet ...
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... kind , during all my foreign employments . To the library at Eton college I leave all my manuscripts not before disposed ; and to each of the fellows a plain ring of gold , enamelled black , all save the verge , with this motto within ...
... kind , during all my foreign employments . To the library at Eton college I leave all my manuscripts not before disposed ; and to each of the fellows a plain ring of gold , enamelled black , all save the verge , with this motto within ...
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Page 565 - THE righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: And merciful men are taken away, none considering That the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
Page 313 - Behold, here I am ; witness against me before the Lord, and before his anointed ; whose ox have I taken ? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded ? whom have I oppressed ? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith ? and I will restore it you. And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.
Page 452 - Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
Page 228 - Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Page 519 - And the servant of the Lord must not strive ; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth...
Page 50 - I see that as my father and generation hath done before me, so I also shall now suddenly (with Job) make my bed also in the dark ; and I praise God I am prepared for it ; and I praise him, that I am not to learn patience, now I stand in such need of it ; and that I have practised mortification, and endeavoured to die daily, that I might not die eternally...
Page 291 - Every day is a little life; and our whole life is but a day repeated: whence it is. that old Jacob numbers his life by days ; and Moses desires to be taught this point of holy arithmetic, ' to number ' not his years, but
Page 90 - An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
Page 8 - ... and so much under her own eye, as to see and converse with him daily: but she managed this power over him without any such rigid sourness as might make her company a torment to her child; but with such a sweetness and compliance with the recreations and pleasures of youth, as did incline him willingly to spend much of his time in the company of his dear and careful mother; which was to her great content...
Page 396 - It is therefore fitting that you should by all means glorify Jesus Christ who hath glorified you ; that by a uniform obedience ye may be perfectly joined together in the same mind, and in the same judgment...