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Pàgina 27
... blessing of the Old Testament - adversity is the blessing of the New , which carrieth the greater benediction , and the clearer revelation 3 * TEMPERANCE , PRUDENCE , AND FORTITUDE . 27.
... blessing of the Old Testament - adversity is the blessing of the New , which carrieth the greater benediction , and the clearer revelation 3 * TEMPERANCE , PRUDENCE , AND FORTITUDE . 27.
Pàgina 45
... blessing become your curse . Virtue corrupted with vain - glory turns to pride ; pride poisoned with malice becomes envy . Join , therefore , humility with your virtue , and pride shall have no footing , nor envy find an entrance . The ...
... blessing become your curse . Virtue corrupted with vain - glory turns to pride ; pride poisoned with malice becomes envy . Join , therefore , humility with your virtue , and pride shall have no footing , nor envy find an entrance . The ...
Pàgina 46
... bless God they are not yours . Men shall answer at God's bar for their vicious habits , but not for their natural im- perfections . A good word is an easy obligation , but not to speak ill requires only our silence , which costs us ...
... bless God they are not yours . Men shall answer at God's bar for their vicious habits , but not for their natural im- perfections . A good word is an easy obligation , but not to speak ill requires only our silence , which costs us ...
Pàgina 79
... blessed light of Jesus ' countenance shine in . It will turn tears into rainbows . When life has always been calm and unvarying , our private prayers shape almost into a form . We only want God's blessing on those we love , and His help ...
... blessed light of Jesus ' countenance shine in . It will turn tears into rainbows . When life has always been calm and unvarying , our private prayers shape almost into a form . We only want God's blessing on those we love , and His help ...
Pàgina 80
... blessing of God upon it , is better than a great deal with the incumbrance of His curse . His blessing can multiply a mite into a talent , but His curse will shrink a talent into a mite . By Him the arms of the wicked are broken , and ...
... blessing of God upon it , is better than a great deal with the incumbrance of His curse . His blessing can multiply a mite into a talent , but His curse will shrink a talent into a mite . By Him the arms of the wicked are broken , and ...
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Pàgina 17 - The discretion of a man deferreth his anger ; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Pàgina 126 - I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
Pàgina 128 - Far, far away, like bells at evening pealing, The voice of Jesus sounds o'er land and sea, And laden souls by thousands meekly stealing, Kind Shepherd, turn their weary steps to Thee.
Pàgina 13 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs, as carols. And the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon.
Pàgina 39 - Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food; but God has given us wit, and flavour, and brightness, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to " charm his pained steps over the burning marie.
Pàgina 1 - The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Pàgina 261 - Get thee hence, Satan : for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve." Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, Angels came and ministered unto him.
Pàgina 131 - ... prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares, and the calm of our tempest ; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts, it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness ; and he that prays to God with an angry, that is, with a troubled and discomposed spirit, is like him...
Pàgina 130 - These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.