Discourses on several important subjects. To which are added, 8 sermons preached at the lady Moyer's lecture, in the cathedral church of st. Paul, London, المجلد 11745 |
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الصفحة 34
... Ideas ; however fome , who have a false Idea of Life and a Wrongness of Thinking , may confound them . For Better is a Dinner of Herbs where Love is , than a ftalled Ox , and Hatred therewith . That is , it is better to have Peace ...
... Ideas ; however fome , who have a false Idea of Life and a Wrongness of Thinking , may confound them . For Better is a Dinner of Herbs where Love is , than a ftalled Ox , and Hatred therewith . That is , it is better to have Peace ...
الصفحة 67
... Ideas may be the conftant Inhabitants of his Mind . You must reflect that there is no fuch Thing as maintaining a friendly Intercourse , without overlooking Things of this Nature , He who thinks he has difcharged every Duty without any ...
... Ideas may be the conftant Inhabitants of his Mind . You must reflect that there is no fuch Thing as maintaining a friendly Intercourse , without overlooking Things of this Nature , He who thinks he has difcharged every Duty without any ...
الصفحة 103
... Ideas of an unrelenting Judge , and represents him to his scared Imagination with all the Pomp and Solemnity of Horror ; as if he were like Death , the King of Terrors , not the Father of Mercies and the God of Comforts . On the other ...
... Ideas of an unrelenting Judge , and represents him to his scared Imagination with all the Pomp and Solemnity of Horror ; as if he were like Death , the King of Terrors , not the Father of Mercies and the God of Comforts . On the other ...
الصفحة 104
... Ideas of an holy , great , and just Legislator , are left out of the Account ; and only those more pleafing ones of the affectionate Parent retained ; without confidering , that a Being , whose Love is directed by the Nature and Fitness ...
... Ideas of an holy , great , and just Legislator , are left out of the Account ; and only those more pleafing ones of the affectionate Parent retained ; without confidering , that a Being , whose Love is directed by the Nature and Fitness ...
الصفحة 124
... wind up our Ima- ginations too high ; and Things , as they are in Nature , will never answer to the gay florid Ideas , which a luxuriant Fancy forms forms of them . The only Expedient SERM . VI 124 How far an Affluence contributes.
... wind up our Ima- ginations too high ; and Things , as they are in Nature , will never answer to the gay florid Ideas , which a luxuriant Fancy forms forms of them . The only Expedient SERM . VI 124 How far an Affluence contributes.
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Actions againſt anſwer Beauty becauſe Benevolence beſt Bleffings Cafe Cauſe Chriftian Confequence confider Confideration confiftent Courſe Daniel Waterland Defire Deity Diverfions Duty eafy eaſy Efteem elſe endeavour faid fame feems feldom felves ferve fettled feveral fhall fhew firſt folid fome fomething fometimes foon ftand ftill fuch fuffer fure give Goodneſs greateſt habitual Happineſs happy Heart himſelf Honour Ideas IIdly Inftance intereſted Irreligion itſelf juft juſt laft laſt leaft leaſt lefs Love Luftre Malice Mankind Meaſure Mifery Mind moft Morality moſt muft muſt Nature neceffary nefs never obferved occafional ourſelves Paffion Perfon Piety pleaſe Pleaſure pray Prayer prefent Principle publick racter raiſe Reaſon Religion Senfe Senſe SER.XIII SER.XIV SER.XVI SERM ſhall ſhould ſome Soul ſpeak Spirit ſuch Temper thefe themſelves theſe Things thofe thoſe Thoughts tion Truth ture Underſtanding uneafy univerfal unleſs uſe Vice Virtue whofe Wiſdom World
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الصفحة 302 - Almighty Lord, who is a most strong tower to all them that put their trust in him, to whom all things in heaven, in earth, and under the earth, do bow and obey...
الصفحة 208 - The fire of a glowing imagination (the property of youth) may make folly look pleasing, and lend a beauty to objects, which have none inherent in them ; just as the sun-beams may paint a cloud, and diversify it with beautiful stains of light, however dark, unsubstantial, and empty in itself. But nothing...
الصفحة 9 - For if ye love them which love you, what reward have you ? do not even the publicans the same ? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others?
الصفحة 41 - Neither was it mine adversary that did magnify himself against me; for then peradventure I would have hid myself from him : 14 But it was even thou, my companion, my guide, and mine own familiar friend.
الصفحة 218 - ... humanity and generosity which are necessary to become a great fortune ; and of all those perfections, viz., moderation, humility, and temperance, which are necessary to bear a small one patiently ; but especially it is your duty to acquire a taste for those pleasures which, after they are tasted, go off agreeably, and leave behind them a grateful and delightful flavour on the mind.
الصفحة 213 - Senfe is like current Coin ; we have, every Day, in the ordinary Occurrences of Life...
الصفحة 219 - The justly valuing and duly using the Advantages enjoyed in a Place of Education. One considerable advantage is, that regular method of study, too much neglected in other places, which obtains here. Nothing is more common elsewhere, than for persons to plunge, at once, into the very depth of science, (far beyond their own,) without having learned the first rudiments : nothing more common, than for some to pass...
الصفحة 209 - But nothing can shine with undiminished lustre, but religion and knowledge, which are essentially and intrinsically bright. Take it therefore for granted, which you will find by -experience, that nothing can be long entertaining, but what is in some measure beneficial ; because nothing else will bear a calm and sedate review.
الصفحة 227 - ... thofe excellent Books, which contain a Confutation of them ; like Infects preferved for Ages in Amber, which otherwife would foon have returned to the common Mafs of Things. But a firm Belief of Chriftianity and a Practice fuitable to it will fupport and invigorate the Mind to the...
الصفحة 217 - ... though nothing merely in order to be commended. That time, which others must employ in tilling the ground (which often deceives their expectation) with the sweat of their brow, they may lay out in cultivating the mind, a soil always grateful to the care of the tiller. The sum of what I would say...