The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone ...Prited by J. Hughs, for J. Dodsley, 1765 |
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... happiness . Can the weakness and infufficiency of these things poffibly appear in a ftronger light than when true religion is con- fidered as a new creation , and a second birth ? If the infpired writers be allowed to exprefs them ...
... happiness . Can the weakness and infufficiency of these things poffibly appear in a ftronger light than when true religion is con- fidered as a new creation , and a second birth ? If the infpired writers be allowed to exprefs them ...
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... preferved from impetuofity and excefs ; if the fource of happiness is ftill the fame , though it is more fparingly or more wifely indulged , it is plainly plainly the old nature , and the person cannot be 38 A PRACTICAL TREATISE.
... preferved from impetuofity and excefs ; if the fource of happiness is ftill the fame , though it is more fparingly or more wifely indulged , it is plainly plainly the old nature , and the person cannot be 38 A PRACTICAL TREATISE.
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... knoweth and judgeth the fecrets of all hearts . ' I fhall only further obferve , that the fame thing appears in the cleareft manner , from the D 6 nature nature of that happiness which is prepared for the children ON REGENERATION . 59.
... knoweth and judgeth the fecrets of all hearts . ' I fhall only further obferve , that the fame thing appears in the cleareft manner , from the D 6 nature nature of that happiness which is prepared for the children ON REGENERATION . 59.
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... happiness of heaven . As the commands of God are a burden to them on earth , his immediate prefence would be a ftill more in- fupportable burden in heaven . - From all this I hope it appears evidently , that a character may be formed ...
... happiness of heaven . As the commands of God are a burden to them on earth , his immediate prefence would be a ftill more in- fupportable burden in heaven . - From all this I hope it appears evidently , that a character may be formed ...
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... happiness and comfort in him . His ha- bitual temper , his prevailing difpofition , or that which hath the afcendancy , must be the fame that was perfect and without mixture , before the fall , and shall be made equally , or perhaps ...
... happiness and comfort in him . His ha- bitual temper , his prevailing difpofition , or that which hath the afcendancy , must be the fame that was perfect and without mixture , before the fall , and shall be made equally , or perhaps ...
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Popular passages
Page 265 - Except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God,
Page 159 - For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God ; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
Page 58 - And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love ; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Page 206 - But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Page 153 - Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Page 228 - Then said I, Lo, I come : in the volume of the book it is written of me ; I delight to do thy will, O my God : yea, thy law is within my heart.
Page 245 - Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
Page 171 - In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats ; to go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
Page 276 - Cursed is every one which continueth not in all things that are •written in the book of the law, to do them.
Page 241 - Abide in Me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can ye except ye abide in Me. I am the Vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. For without Me ye can do nothing.