Poems, Volume 4P. Wilson, 1765 |
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... expect our faults to be pardoned , nor our wants to be relieved before they are made known , and furely in point of common de- cency we cannot expect inestimable blessings from a Being fuch as God is , upon easier terms than those which ...
... expect our faults to be pardoned , nor our wants to be relieved before they are made known , and furely in point of common de- cency we cannot expect inestimable blessings from a Being fuch as God is , upon easier terms than those which ...
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... expect that he will interest himself in our behalf , until we fhew by Prayer , that we are known not only to him , but also to ourfelves , the most diffi- cult but most neceffary of all knowledge , which should always accompany , and ...
... expect that he will interest himself in our behalf , until we fhew by Prayer , that we are known not only to him , but also to ourfelves , the most diffi- cult but most neceffary of all knowledge , which should always accompany , and ...
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... expect from a due dif- charge of that Duty . There are , it is to be feared , many per- fons in the world who imagine themselves worthy performers of this duty , merely be- cause they are regular and conftant in saying . over a few ...
... expect from a due dif- charge of that Duty . There are , it is to be feared , many per- fons in the world who imagine themselves worthy performers of this duty , merely be- cause they are regular and conftant in saying . over a few ...
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... expect them equally with the fincere and contrite , and those who , like the heathen , and our modern enthusiasts , make use of long prayers , might expect bleffings so much great- er than others , as their prayers are longer . But of ...
... expect them equally with the fincere and contrite , and those who , like the heathen , and our modern enthusiasts , make use of long prayers , might expect bleffings so much great- er than others , as their prayers are longer . But of ...
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... expect that God will incline his ear to us ; for the Apostle affures us , that on this account many afk , and receive not , be- cause they ask amifs , that they may consume it upon their lufts . To fincerity we must also add humility ...
... expect that God will incline his ear to us ; for the Apostle affures us , that on this account many afk , and receive not , be- cause they ask amifs , that they may consume it upon their lufts . To fincerity we must also add humility ...
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Page 103 - Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty : for all that is in the heaven, and in the earth is thine ; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.
Page 117 - ... that it may please thee, of thy gracious goodness, shortly to accomplish the number of thine elect, and to hasten thy kingdom; that we, with all those that are departed in the true faith of thy holy name, may have our perfect consummation and bliss, both in body and soul, in thy eternal and everlasting glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 55 - Father, and the drops of dew declare their having been begotten by him ; but in a more eminent and exalted fenfe he is the Father of Man, having created him after his own image ; whence Adam is called the Son of God, and Man may more efpecially fay with the Prophet, Have we not all one Father ? Hath not one God created us?
Page 63 - Fathers, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto...
Page 115 - Warlike weapons will be unknown in a region of universal love and peace, where " the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard lie down with the kid ; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them.
Page 17 - Prayers, we cannot cannot but be fenfible, that to God we owe them, and to God we ought to be. thankful for them. But, fay they, though it may be reafonable, and neceflary to pray to a Being of infinite knowledge and goodnefs, furely it cannot be fo, to pray to a Being of abfolute immutability, who is not a Man that he fhould lie, nor the fon of Man, that he fhould repent; in whom there is no.
Page 110 - O Merciful God, who hast made all men, and hatest nothing that thou hast made, nor wouldest the death of a sinner, but rather that he should be converted and live; Have mercy upon all Jews, Turks, Infidels, and Hereticks, and take from them all ignorance, hardness of heart, and contempt of thy Word...
Page 82 - PRAISE the Lord, O my foul : and all that is within me praife his holy Name.
Page ii - To give, but little. — To great Glo'ster health! Nor let thy true and proper love of wealth Here take a false alarm — in purse though poor, In spirit I'm right proud, nor can endure The mention of a bribe — thy pocket's free: I, though a dedicator, scorn a fee. Let thy own offspring all thy fortunes share; I would not Allen rob, nor Allen's heir.
Page 208 - God is faithful, who will not suffer us to be tempted above that we are able to bear ; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that we may be able to bear it.