A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians: In the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. By William Wilberforce, ...T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, (successors to Mr. Cadell), 1798 - 502 pages |
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... becomes more and more convinced , that he might wait in vain for this feafon of compleat va- cancy . He must be content , therefore , to improve fuch occasional intervals of leisure B as as may occur to him in the course of an.
... becomes more and more convinced , that he might wait in vain for this feafon of compleat va- cancy . He must be content , therefore , to improve fuch occasional intervals of leisure B as as may occur to him in the course of an.
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... course of an active and bufy life , and to throw himself on the Reader's indulgence for the pardon of fuch imperfections , as the opportunity of undiverted attention and maturer reflec- tions might have enabled him to discover and ...
... course of an active and bufy life , and to throw himself on the Reader's indulgence for the pardon of fuch imperfections , as the opportunity of undiverted attention and maturer reflec- tions might have enabled him to discover and ...
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... course he is a Chriftian : his father was a member of the church of England ; fo is he . When fuch is the religion handed down among us by here- ditary fucceffion , it cannot furprise us to ob- ferve young men of sense and spirit begin ...
... course he is a Chriftian : his father was a member of the church of England ; fo is he . When fuch is the religion handed down among us by here- ditary fucceffion , it cannot furprise us to ob- ferve young men of sense and spirit begin ...
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... course of conduct , exhibiting incon- testable proofs of neglect and unkindness . But the paffion , which alone the Holy Scrip- tures dignify with the name of Love , is a deep , not a fuperficial feeling ; a fixed and permanent , not an ...
... course of conduct , exhibiting incon- testable proofs of neglect and unkindness . But the paffion , which alone the Holy Scrip- tures dignify with the name of Love , is a deep , not a fuperficial feeling ; a fixed and permanent , not an ...
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... course , which knit and cement the union between man and man . WE mean not to deny that there is fome- difcuffed , thing in this objection . It might even feem fwered . to plead the authority of Scripture in its fa- vour " He that ...
... course , which knit and cement the union between man and man . WE mean not to deny that there is fome- difcuffed , thing in this objection . It might even feem fwered . to plead the authority of Scripture in its fa- vour " He that ...
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Page 390 - Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.
Page 42 - Because I have called and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded ; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity: I will mock when your fear cometh ; When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me...
Page 56 - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God : but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Page 444 - Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die. For I have not found thy works perfect before God.
Page 57 - What better can we do, than, to the place Repairing where he judged us, prostrate fall Before him reverent, and there confess Humbly our faults, and pardon beg, with tears Watering the ground, and with our sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite, in sign Of sorrow unfeign'd and humiliation meek?
Page 159 - Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches : but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth Me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth : for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.
Page 351 - From thee is all that soothes the life of man, His high endeavour, and his glad success, His strength to suffer, and his will to serve. But, O thou bounteous giver of all good, Thou art of all thy gifts thyself the crown ! Give what thou canst, without thee we are poor ; And with thee rich, take what thou wilt away.
Page 106 - in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Page 31 - ... of doing well we utterly renounce. We see how far we are from the perfect righteousness of the Law ; the little fruit which we have in holiness, it is, God knoweth, corrupt and unsound : we put no confidence at all in it, we challenge nothing in the world for it, we dare not call God to reckoning, as if we had him in our debtbooks : our continual suit to him is, and must be, to bear with our infirmities, and pardon our offences.
Page 329 - He that abideth in me, and I in him, the fame bringeth forth much fruit : for without me ye can do nothing.