A Treatise on Self KnowledgeT. Tegg, 1821 - 242 pàgines |
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Pàgina xx
... particular occasions 215 VIII . To know ourselves we must wholly abstract from external appearances . ... 220 IX . The practice of self - knowledge a great means to promote it . . . . 226 X. Fervent and frequent prayer the most ...
... particular occasions 215 VIII . To know ourselves we must wholly abstract from external appearances . ... 220 IX . The practice of self - knowledge a great means to promote it . . . . 226 X. Fervent and frequent prayer the most ...
Pàgina 1
... particular kind of knowledge it is most fond of . Thus we see , that low and little minds are most delighted with the knowledge of trifles , as in children ; an indolent mind , with that which serves only for amusement , or the ...
... particular kind of knowledge it is most fond of . Thus we see , that low and little minds are most delighted with the knowledge of trifles , as in children ; an indolent mind , with that which serves only for amusement , or the ...
Pàgina 8
... particular attention to their various powers , capacities , passions , in- clinations , operations , state , happiness , and temper . For a man's soul is properly himself , Mat . xvi . 26. The body is but the house , the soul is the ...
... particular attention to their various powers , capacities , passions , in- clinations , operations , state , happiness , and temper . For a man's soul is properly himself , Mat . xvi . 26. The body is but the house , the soul is the ...
Pàgina 16
... and direct our way to it , than open to us the particular glories of it , or distinctly shew us what it is.- This it hath left still very much a mystery , to be ignorant , if we check our too curious enquiries 16 A TREATISE ON.
... and direct our way to it , than open to us the particular glories of it , or distinctly shew us what it is.- This it hath left still very much a mystery , to be ignorant , if we check our too curious enquiries 16 A TREATISE ON.
Pàgina 17
... shall some way be happy there , and much more happy than we can now conceive ; though in what particular manner we know not , because God hath not revealed it . CHAP . III . The several Relations in which we SELF - KNOWLEDGE . 17.
... shall some way be happy there , and much more happy than we can now conceive ; though in what particular manner we know not , because God hath not revealed it . CHAP . III . The several Relations in which we SELF - KNOWLEDGE . 17.
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 83 - But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him; for the Lord seeth not as man seeth ; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
Pàgina 87 - Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
Pàgina 30 - As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Pàgina 6 - For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
Pàgina 23 - But now, O Lord, thou art our father ; We are the clay, and thou our potter; And we all are the work of thy hand.
Pàgina 172 - DISTRUST, and darkness of a future state, Make poor mankind so fearful of their fate. Death, in itself, is nothing ; but we fear, To be we know not what, we know not where.
Pàgina 144 - Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Pàgina 100 - Anger may steal into the heart " of a wise man, but it rests only in the bosom "of fools.
Pàgina 112 - I shall conclude with this one observation more; that it is a very dangerous thing to think, as too many are apt to do, that it is a matter of indifference what thoughts they entertain in their hearts, since the reason of things concurs with the testimony of the holy Scripture to assure us, ' That the allowed thought of foolishness is sin.
Pàgina xii - The highest learning is to be wise, and the greatest wisdom is to be good;" as Marcus Antoninus somewhere observes.