The new Whole duty of man, containing the faith as well as practice of a Christian [&c.].1741 |
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Page ii
... most holy religion , when at the fame time the articles of the chriftian faith are quite omitted in it ; I fay , whether this has not in fome degree contributed , during fuch a course of years , to produce that contempt which the ...
... most holy religion , when at the fame time the articles of the chriftian faith are quite omitted in it ; I fay , whether this has not in fome degree contributed , during fuch a course of years , to produce that contempt which the ...
Page x
... most barbarous nations , as well as the most polite , agree in a thing , we may well call it the voice of nature , or a natural notion or dictate of our minds . And it is evident from the testimony of many ancient heathen writers , and ...
... most barbarous nations , as well as the most polite , agree in a thing , we may well call it the voice of nature , or a natural notion or dictate of our minds . And it is evident from the testimony of many ancient heathen writers , and ...
Page xiii
... most noisome diseases , whilst it is alive ; and which death ( which it cannot escape ) renders fo intolerably offenfive and odious , that it must be buried out of our fight . To fpend all our time and care about this vile part the body ...
... most noisome diseases , whilst it is alive ; and which death ( which it cannot escape ) renders fo intolerably offenfive and odious , that it must be buried out of our fight . To fpend all our time and care about this vile part the body ...
Page xiv
... most lafting and is never taken from us , whose state hereafter will be determined by our behaviour in this life ; hea- ven or hell , happiness or mifery , will be our final portion , just as death finds us ; as foon as death ftrikes ...
... most lafting and is never taken from us , whose state hereafter will be determined by our behaviour in this life ; hea- ven or hell , happiness or mifery , will be our final portion , just as death finds us ; as foon as death ftrikes ...
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Whole duty. The continuance of happiness is the most fatisfying cha- racter of it ; and the eternity of mifery the most bitter ingre- dient thereof . It is impoffible to be perfectly happy with the profpect of an end before one . This ...
Whole duty. The continuance of happiness is the most fatisfying cha- racter of it ; and the eternity of mifery the most bitter ingre- dient thereof . It is impoffible to be perfectly happy with the profpect of an end before one . This ...
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Page 14 - Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Page 96 - But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
Page 25 - ALMIGHTY God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, (in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility...
Page 24 - THEREFORE with Angels and Archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious Name ; evermore praising thee, and saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, heaven and earth are full of thy glory : Glory be to thee, O Lord most High.
Page 25 - Son Jesus Christ our Lord ; Who after His most glorious resurrection manifestly appeared to all His Apostles, and in their sight ascended up into heaven to prepare a place for us ; that where He is, thither we might also ascend, and reign with Him in glory.
Page 26 - ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who art always more ready to hear than we to pray, and art wont to give more than either we desire or deserve ; pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy, forgiving us those things whereof our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things which we are not worthy to ask, but through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord.
Page 26 - LORD, we beseech thee to keep thy Church and Household continually in thy true religion, that they who do lean only upon the hope of thy heavenly grace, may evermore be defended by thy mighty power, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord. Amen.
Page 24 - BECAUSE thou didst give Jesus Christ thine only Son to be born as at this time for us, who by the operation of the Holy Ghost, was made very man of the substance of the Virgin Mary his mother, and that without spot of sin, to make us clean from all sin.
Page 97 - we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that every one may receive the things done in the body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Page 131 - For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.