The whole duty of man. With Private devotionsJ. Baskett, 1728 |
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Page ii
... Secondly , The Soul never dies . We use to prize things according to their durableness : What is moft lafting , is moft Worth . Now the Soul is a thing that will laft for ever : When wealth , beauty , ftrength , nay , our very bodies ...
... Secondly , The Soul never dies . We use to prize things according to their durableness : What is moft lafting , is moft Worth . Now the Soul is a thing that will laft for ever : When wealth , beauty , ftrength , nay , our very bodies ...
Page iv
... Secondly , The watch- fulness and diligence of an enemy makes him the more to be feared ; and here the Devil exceeds : It is his trade and business to destroy us , and he is no loiterer at it : He goes up and down feeking whom he may ...
... Secondly , The watch- fulness and diligence of an enemy makes him the more to be feared ; and here the Devil exceeds : It is his trade and business to destroy us , and he is no loiterer at it : He goes up and down feeking whom he may ...
Page viii
... and forfake our fins , without which they will never be forgiven us , tho ' Chrift have died . Secondly , Stedfaftly to believe , that if we do that , 3 we we fhall have the benefits of that facrifice of his viii The PREFACE.
... and forfake our fins , without which they will never be forgiven us , tho ' Chrift have died . Secondly , Stedfaftly to believe , that if we do that , 3 we we fhall have the benefits of that facrifice of his viii The PREFACE.
Page ix
... Secondly , by fending his Holy Spirit into our hearts to govern and rule us , to give us ftrength to overcome temptations to fin , and to do all that he now under the Gofpel requires of us . And in this he is our King ; it being the ...
... Secondly , by fending his Holy Spirit into our hearts to govern and rule us , to give us ftrength to overcome temptations to fin , and to do all that he now under the Gofpel requires of us . And in this he is our King ; it being the ...
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... Secondly , not to faften our affections on this world , but to raise them according to the precept of the Apofile , Col. iii . 2. Set your affections on things above , and not on things on the earth ; continually longing to come to the ...
... Secondly , not to faften our affections on this world , but to raise them according to the precept of the Apofile , Col. iii . 2. Set your affections on things above , and not on things on the earth ; continually longing to come to the ...
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Page 30 - Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns ; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Page 293 - Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves : for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Page 29 - Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, Upon them that hope in his mercy ; To deliver their soul from death, And to keep them alive in famine.
Page iii - 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 482 - O send out thy light and thy truth, that they may lead me : and bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy dwelling.
Page 488 - God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance ; thy holy temple have they defiled ; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
Page 493 - O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night? Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save?
Page 414 - I shall fear to die in ; but that whether I live, I may live unto the Lord ; or whether I die, I may die unto the Lord ; so that living and dying I may be thine, through Jesus Christ.
Page 437 - O keep my soul, and deliver me : let me not be confounded, for I have put my trust in thee.