A Treatise on Self KnowledgeT. Tegg, 1821 - 242 pàgines |
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Pàgina viii
... Self- Ignorance , and the Benefit of Self - Acquaintance , and I freely acknowledge some helps I received from him but he hath handled it ( according to his manner ) in so lax and diffuse a way , introdu- cing so many things into it ...
... Self- Ignorance , and the Benefit of Self - Acquaintance , and I freely acknowledge some helps I received from him but he hath handled it ( according to his manner ) in so lax and diffuse a way , introdu- cing so many things into it ...
Pàgina 6
... self - ignorance , in not knowing what manner of spirits they were of . " Luke ix . 55. And , saith the apostle , " If a man ( through self - ignorance ) thinketh himself to be something , when he is nothing , he deceiveth himself . But ...
... self - ignorance , in not knowing what manner of spirits they were of . " Luke ix . 55. And , saith the apostle , " If a man ( through self - ignorance ) thinketh himself to be something , when he is nothing , he deceiveth himself . But ...
Pàgina 7
... self- knowledge , and possessed with a due esteem for it ; did they but know the true way to attain it ; and under a proper sense of its excellence , and the fatal effects of self - ignorance , did they but make it their business and ...
... self- knowledge , and possessed with a due esteem for it ; did they but know the true way to attain it ; and under a proper sense of its excellence , and the fatal effects of self - ignorance , did they but make it their business and ...
Pàgina 23
... self - ignorance . But , ( 2. ) As the creatures of God we are not only the subjects of his kingdom , but the chil- dren of his family . And to this relation , and the obligations of it , must we carefully attend , if we would attain ...
... self - ignorance . But , ( 2. ) As the creatures of God we are not only the subjects of his kingdom , but the chil- dren of his family . And to this relation , and the obligations of it , must we carefully attend , if we would attain ...
Pàgina 34
... self - ignorance , as the other . Nay , of the two , perhaps , men in general are more apt to be de- fective in their duty and behaviour towards those beneath them , than they are towards those that are above them ; and the reason seems ...
... self - ignorance , as the other . Nay , of the two , perhaps , men in general are more apt to be de- fective in their duty and behaviour towards those beneath them , than they are towards those that are above them ; and the reason seems ...
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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.