A Practical Discourse Concerning DeathR. Baldwin, 1751 - 292 pages |
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... Virtue , boundlefs is its Pow'r ; ' Tis publick Health , and universal Cure . Of heavenly Manna ' tis a fecond Feaft , A Nation's Food , and all to ev'ry Tafte . To its laft Height mad Britain's Guilt was rear'd : And various Deaths for ...
... Virtue , boundlefs is its Pow'r ; ' Tis publick Health , and universal Cure . Of heavenly Manna ' tis a fecond Feaft , A Nation's Food , and all to ev'ry Tafte . To its laft Height mad Britain's Guilt was rear'd : And various Deaths for ...
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... Virtue improved his Faculties , and raised himself above this Body , and grown up into the Divine Nature and Life , after a long and happy Life here , he should have been tran- flated into Heaven as Enoch and Elias were , without dying ...
... Virtue improved his Faculties , and raised himself above this Body , and grown up into the Divine Nature and Life , after a long and happy Life here , he should have been tran- flated into Heaven as Enoch and Elias were , without dying ...
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... Virtues , when directed to the right Objects ; that is , to fuch Objects as are truly great and excel- lent ; for it ... Virtue : but to be am- bitious of Titles , of Place , of fome ceremo- nious Refpects , and civil Pageantry , is as ...
... Virtues , when directed to the right Objects ; that is , to fuch Objects as are truly great and excel- lent ; for it ... Virtue : but to be am- bitious of Titles , of Place , of fome ceremo- nious Refpects , and civil Pageantry , is as ...
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... Virtue , as it is oppofed to earthly Ambitions , as it fets us above the little Opi- nions and Courtship of the World , which are fuch mean Things , as argue Meanness of Spi- rit to stoop to them ; yet it is not Humility but Sordidnefs ...
... Virtue , as it is oppofed to earthly Ambitions , as it fets us above the little Opi- nions and Courtship of the World , which are fuch mean Things , as argue Meanness of Spi- rit to stoop to them ; yet it is not Humility but Sordidnefs ...
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... that Death only tranflates us into another World , where the Beginnings of Wisdom and Virtue here , grow up into Perfection ; and if that be a C 4 more more happy Place than this World , as you have concerning DEATH . 23.
... that Death only tranflates us into another World , where the Beginnings of Wisdom and Virtue here , grow up into Perfection ; and if that be a C 4 more more happy Place than this World , as you have concerning DEATH . 23.
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