The Wisdom of Being ReligiousRivington, 1819 - 189 sivua |
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Sivu 12
... doth constantly put " departing from evil " first : " Depart from evil , and do good . ' " Cease to do evil , learn to do well ; " " Let the wicked forsake his way , and the unrighteous man his thoughts , and let him return unto the ...
... doth constantly put " departing from evil " first : " Depart from evil , and do good . ' " Cease to do evil , learn to do well ; " " Let the wicked forsake his way , and the unrighteous man his thoughts , and let him return unto the ...
Sivu 17
... doth not altogether take away the delightfulness of the know- ledge . For as it is pleasant to the eye to have an endless prospect , so is it some pleasure to a finite understanding to view unlimited excellencies which have no shore or ...
... doth not altogether take away the delightfulness of the know- ledge . For as it is pleasant to the eye to have an endless prospect , so is it some pleasure to a finite understanding to view unlimited excellencies which have no shore or ...
Sivu 21
... doth not know those things which are of use and neces- sity for him to know , is but an ignorant man , whatever he may know besides . Now the knowledge of God , and of Christ , and of our duty , is of the great- est usefulness and ...
... doth not know those things which are of use and neces- sity for him to know , is but an ignorant man , whatever he may know besides . Now the knowledge of God , and of Christ , and of our duty , is of the great- est usefulness and ...
Sivu 22
... doth not know God , the author of his being , the preserver and protector of his life , his Sovereign , and his Judge , the giver of every good and perfect gift , his surest refuge in trouble , his best friend or worst enemy , the ...
... doth not know God , the author of his being , the preserver and protector of his life , his Sovereign , and his Judge , the giver of every good and perfect gift , his surest refuge in trouble , his best friend or worst enemy , the ...
Sivu 24
... intimating that wisdom regards a man's own interest and advantage , and that he is not a wise man that doth not take care of himself and his own concern- ments , according to that of old Ennius , nequicquam 24 THE WISDOM.
... intimating that wisdom regards a man's own interest and advantage , and that he is not a wise man that doth not take care of himself and his own concern- ments , according to that of old Ennius , nequicquam 24 THE WISDOM.
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Sivu 2 - When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder : Then did he see it, and declare it ; He prepared it, yea, and searched it out. And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom ; And to depart from evil is understanding.
Sivu 150 - Saviour ; knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying ; Where is the promise of his coming ? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
Sivu 63 - ... happen to make the exact picture of a man ? And is a man easier made by chance than his picture? How long might twenty thousand blind men, which should be sent out from the several remote parts of England, wander up and down before they would all meet upon Salisbury Plains, and fall into rank and file in the exact order of an army? And yet this is much more easy to be imagined, than how the innumerable blind parts of matter should rendezvous themselves into a world.
Sivu 149 - I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance ; that ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour ; knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying ; Where is the promise of his coming ? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
Sivu 110 - How sadly will the man be disappointed when he finds all things otherwise than he had stated and determined them in this world ! When he comes to appear before that God whom he hath denied, and against whom he...
Sivu 23 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar-tree that is in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall : he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Sivu 150 - BUT there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Sivu 62 - I appeal to any man of reason whether any thing can be more unreasonable than obstinately to impute an effect to chance, which 'carries in the very face of it all the arguments and characters of a wise design and contrivance.
Sivu 23 - Christ, and of his duty, all this would be but an impertinent vanity, and a more glittering kind of ignorance...
Sivu 106 - I think the world was made FOR one, And men are born FOR kings, as beasts FOR men ?" [ie Shall I think that one man was the Cause why the world was made ; that kings are the Cause why men were born ; as men are the Cause why there are beasts?]