Twenty Essays on the Practical Improvement of God's Providential Dispensations, as Means of Moral Discipline to the ChristianR.B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1838 - 191 Seiten |
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... thoughts , imaginations , and feelings , all unceas- ingly active for good or ill ; and hither the senses , like Tyrian mariners , bring home the riches of other worlds . Man's spirit was created for a higher and holier communion than ...
... thoughts , imaginations , and feelings , all unceas- ingly active for good or ill ; and hither the senses , like Tyrian mariners , bring home the riches of other worlds . Man's spirit was created for a higher and holier communion than ...
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... thought and felt is useless to us , unless their thoughts awaken , and their feelings excite our own . Nothing that a man can read , or hear , or see of God's particular providence over other men , will affect his heart so powerfully ...
... thought and felt is useless to us , unless their thoughts awaken , and their feelings excite our own . Nothing that a man can read , or hear , or see of God's particular providence over other men , will affect his heart so powerfully ...
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... of even greater difficulty to trace the origin , descent , and relationships of these thronging myriads than of the human race . In order that all these multitudinous thoughts may be brought 14 II . ON SELF - KNOWLEDGE .
... of even greater difficulty to trace the origin , descent , and relationships of these thronging myriads than of the human race . In order that all these multitudinous thoughts may be brought 14 II . ON SELF - KNOWLEDGE .
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Twenty essays. In order that all these multitudinous thoughts may be brought into subjection to Christ , we must exercise a mental discipline as rigorous as that of civil government , which assigns to society its ranks and rules ...
Twenty essays. In order that all these multitudinous thoughts may be brought into subjection to Christ , we must exercise a mental discipline as rigorous as that of civil government , which assigns to society its ranks and rules ...
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... thoughts , all these are perversions of a talent given for far nobler use ; they weaken and debase the mind that fosters them . It may indeed thus occupied , escape much of the friction of real life , and evade many painful sensations ...
... thoughts , all these are perversions of a talent given for far nobler use ; they weaken and debase the mind that fosters them . It may indeed thus occupied , escape much of the friction of real life , and evade many painful sensations ...
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1st Samuel affection affliction afford Babylonian captivity beautiful Bible biography blessing cast cation character cheerful Christ Christian church circum circumstances clouds conversation danger darkness David death delight Divine grace Divine Providence earth enjoyment eternity everlasting evil excite exercise experience faculties faith fancy fear feeling friendship God's glory habits happiness heart heaven Holy hope human idolatry ILIAD imagination immortal improvement influence intellectual intercourse interest Jonathan Jonathan and David judgment kind knowledge learned light living Lord means of grace meekness mental mercy mighty to save mind moral nations natural ness object pain passing passions peculiar perhaps persons pious pleasure poverty prayer prove providential render righteousness sabbath saints Satan Scrip Scripture sense sickness sins social society sometimes sorrow soul spirit sympathy talent tempest temptations THAMES DITTON thee things thou thought tion truth unto words worldly worship zoophyte
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Seite 163 - Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number : he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power ; not one faileth.
Seite 86 - The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. The wind goeth towards the south, and turneth about unto the north ; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
Seite 114 - And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
Seite 57 - Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Seite 112 - And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Seite 152 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Seite 117 - I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan : very pleasant hast thou been unto me : thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Seite 153 - No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around ; The idle spear and shield were high up hung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstained with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng ; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by.
Seite 163 - Hast thou not known, hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary f There is no searching of his understanding.
Seite 87 - All things are full of labour, man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.