Sermons by J. B. Massillon, Bishop of Clermont: To which is Prefixed, the Life of the Author, Volume 2M. Carey and son, 1818 |
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... piety ? Do you wish that your heart , still plunged in debauchery , should feel the pure delights and the chaste attractions of virtue ? You are similar to a man who , nourishing himself with gall and wormwood , should afterwards ...
... piety ? Do you wish that your heart , still plunged in debauchery , should feel the pure delights and the chaste attractions of virtue ? You are similar to a man who , nourishing himself with gall and wormwood , should afterwards ...
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... piety seems little suited ; they wait a certain season of life , when , the first bloom of youth being effaced , the manners become more sedate , the attention more exact , the world less watchful of us , even the mind riper and more ...
... piety seems little suited ; they wait a certain season of life , when , the first bloom of youth being effaced , the manners become more sedate , the attention more exact , the world less watchful of us , even the mind riper and more ...
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... , had formed so happy and so tractable to truth , and which you have turned into melancholy means of vice ; un- worthy through the iniquitous manner in which you have derided piety , and those impious desires , so 44 SERMON XVIII .
... , had formed so happy and so tractable to truth , and which you have turned into melancholy means of vice ; un- worthy through the iniquitous manner in which you have derided piety , and those impious desires , so 44 SERMON XVIII .
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... piety , and to shew that the disposition of the presu- ming sinner offers an insult to God in all the above- mentioned perfections . Allow me to explain my rea- sons , and continue to honour me with your attention . In the first place ...
... piety , and to shew that the disposition of the presu- ming sinner offers an insult to God in all the above- mentioned perfections . Allow me to explain my rea- sons , and continue to honour me with your attention . In the first place ...
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... piety , then appear to you as im- practicable virtues ? Did you find it impossible to re- sist temptation ? Was your fondness for pleasure so violent that you were not then your own master ? Ah ! Whence comes it , then , that your ...
... piety , then appear to you as im- practicable virtues ? Did you find it impossible to re- sist temptation ? Was your fondness for pleasure so violent that you were not then your own master ? Ah ! Whence comes it , then , that your ...
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Page 442 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Page 473 - Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; a blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day: and a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.
Page 535 - The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
Page 417 - Then said Martha unto Jesus ; Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.
Page 259 - Verily, verily, I say unto you that ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice; and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
Page 135 - And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, and said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer ; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
Page 259 - If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Page 366 - John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose : he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire...
Page 65 - And those who are as little children receive it, not as the word of man, but as the word of God.
Page 278 - Say not thou. What is the cause that the former days were better than these ? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.