A Practical Discourse Concerning Death: By William Sherlock, ...J. Walthoe, A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, J. and J. Pemberton, R. Robinson, J. Walthoe, jun. [and 5 others in London], 1739 - 292 pages |
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... Creature can wish for or defire . The truth is , few Men know any other Happiness , much less any thing a- bove it . They feel what ftrikes upon their Senfes : This they think a real and substantial Good ; but as for more pure and ...
... Creature can wish for or defire . The truth is , few Men know any other Happiness , much less any thing a- bove it . They feel what ftrikes upon their Senfes : This they think a real and substantial Good ; but as for more pure and ...
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... Creatures are Proprietors of nothing , not fo much as of themselves ; for we are his who made us , and may unmake us again when he pleafes : But yet there are fome Things proper to our Natures , and that is all the natural Property we ...
... Creatures are Proprietors of nothing , not fo much as of themselves ; for we are his who made us , and may unmake us again when he pleafes : But yet there are fome Things proper to our Natures , and that is all the natural Property we ...
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... Creature , if what is his Happiness be not lafting ; and a very foolish Creature , if he places his Happiness in what is not lafting . Now this fhould make a vast Diffe- rence in our Affections to Things . We can- not blame any Man who ...
... Creature , if what is his Happiness be not lafting ; and a very foolish Creature , if he places his Happiness in what is not lafting . Now this fhould make a vast Diffe- rence in our Affections to Things . We can- not blame any Man who ...
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... Creatures , that what is their greatest and trueft Happiness should be most lafting . For if God have made Man capable of different Degrees and States of Happiness , of living in this World and in the next , it is an an Expreffion of ...
... Creatures , that what is their greatest and trueft Happiness should be most lafting . For if God have made Man capable of different Degrees and States of Happiness , of living in this World and in the next , it is an an Expreffion of ...
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... Creatures , as to remove them from this World to the next , the laft State fhould be the most perfect and happy . I fpeak now of fuch Creatures as God defigns for Happiness , for the Reason alters where he intends to pu nifh . But where ...
... Creatures , as to remove them from this World to the next , the laft State fhould be the most perfect and happy . I fpeak now of fuch Creatures as God defigns for Happiness , for the Reason alters where he intends to pu nifh . But where ...
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Page 172 - And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through. 40 Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
Page 173 - Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour when the Son of man cometh.
Page 212 - For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee ; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another ; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
Page 152 - For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory...
Page 159 - The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Page 89 - But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
Page 253 - Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doth the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Page 186 - Put not your trust in princes, Nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish.
Page 102 - And I say to you, my friends: Be not afraid of them who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
Page 212 - Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you : for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. ^While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light.