A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians: In the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. By William Wilberforce, ...T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, (successors to Mr. Cadell), 1798 - 502 pages |
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... tion the good opinion of the world as an inftrument of usefulness But points out a higher object of our ambition · 223-4 225 The inordinate love of human eftimation generally preva- lent , and the natural result - 226-8 Proofs from ...
... tion the good opinion of the world as an inftrument of usefulness But points out a higher object of our ambition · 223-4 225 The inordinate love of human eftimation generally preva- lent , and the natural result - 226-8 Proofs from ...
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... tion of benevolence , if he could withhold his endeavours to fet them right , from an apprehenfion of incurring the imputation of officiousness . BUT he might also allege , as a full justi- fication , not only that Religion is the ...
... tion of benevolence , if he could withhold his endeavours to fet them right , from an apprehenfion of incurring the imputation of officiousness . BUT he might also allege , as a full justi- fication , not only that Religion is the ...
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... this grand diftinguifhing mark of the bounty of Providence . Or if they men- tion it at all , it is noticed coldly and for- mally , CHAP . I. I. CHAP . mally , like one of thofe obfolete IMPORTANCE OF CHRISTIANITY . II.
... this grand diftinguifhing mark of the bounty of Providence . Or if they men- tion it at all , it is noticed coldly and for- mally , CHAP . I. I. CHAP . mally , like one of thofe obfolete IMPORTANCE OF CHRISTIANITY . II.
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... tion difcredits the caufe which it was meant to serve , by many crude and extravagant po- fitions ; a defect from which no one can be fecure who forms a hafty judgement of a deep and comprehenfive fubject , the feveral relations of ...
... tion difcredits the caufe which it was meant to serve , by many crude and extravagant po- fitions ; a defect from which no one can be fecure who forms a hafty judgement of a deep and comprehenfive fubject , the feveral relations of ...
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... tion , in that which we are most concerned to know , how great must be the guilt , and how aweful the punishment of voluntary igno- rance ! AND why are we in this purfuit alone to expect knowledge without inquiry , and fuc- cefs without ...
... tion , in that which we are most concerned to know , how great must be the guilt , and how aweful the punishment of voluntary igno- rance ! AND why are we in this purfuit alone to expect knowledge without inquiry , and fuc- cefs without ...
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Page 50 - Because I have called, and ye refused ; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity ; I will mock when your fear cometh; when your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer : they shall seek me early but they shall not find me...
Page 44 - Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Page 163 - Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches : but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth Me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth : for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.
Page 351 - O thou bounteous giver of all good, Thou art of all thy gifts thyself the crown ! Give what thou canst, without thee we are poor ; And with thee rich, take what thou wilt away.
Page 64 - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God : but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Page 65 - What better can we do, than to the place Repairing where he judg'd us, prostrate fall Before him reverent, and there confess Humbly our faults, and pardon beg, with tears Watering the ground, and with our sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite, in sign Of sorrow unfeign'd, and humiliation meek?
Page 388 - Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.
Page 111 - I put away childifh things: for now we fee through " a glafs darkly ; but then face to face : now I know in " part, but then fhall I know even as alfo I am known.
Page 329 - I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the fame bringeth forth much fruit ; for without me ye can do nothing.
Page 345 - Jefus the author and finifher of our faith; who for the joy that was fet before him, endured the crofs, defpifing the fhame; and is fet down at the right hand of the throne of God.