The Life of the Reverend Mr. James Hervey: Rector of Weston-Favell, in Northamptonshire. To which is Added, a Collection of His Letters, Never Before PublishedR. Taylor, 1770 - 76 pages |
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Page xvii
... gave the whole of it in chari- * ty , saying , that as Providence had blessed his attempts , he thought himself bound to relieve his fellow creatures with it .. It has now gone through eighteen edi- tions . They have been fince turned ...
... gave the whole of it in chari- * ty , saying , that as Providence had blessed his attempts , he thought himself bound to relieve his fellow creatures with it .. It has now gone through eighteen edi- tions . They have been fince turned ...
Page xliv
... . MAR- SHALL and Mr. HERVEY are animad- verted on . Some paffages in THERON AND ASPASIO gave offence likewife to those who were attached in general to the author's own favourite fyftem of Cal- vanifm :: the xliv THE LIFE OF.
... . MAR- SHALL and Mr. HERVEY are animad- verted on . Some paffages in THERON AND ASPASIO gave offence likewife to those who were attached in general to the author's own favourite fyftem of Cal- vanifm :: the xliv THE LIFE OF.
Page xlv
... gave into any of the enthufiaftic no- tions of the Methodists . He also pub- lished three fermons in 1757 , preached on the laté public faft - days . Tothe third edition , which came out in 1759 , after our author's death , were added ...
... gave into any of the enthufiaftic no- tions of the Methodists . He also pub- lished three fermons in 1757 , preached on the laté public faft - days . Tothe third edition , which came out in 1759 , after our author's death , were added ...
Page lv
... gave him great uneafinefs ; but he encouraged all his parishoners , and other ferious Chrift- ians , to refort to him , and converfe free- ly about their eternal interefts . He al- ways preached C 2 MR . JAMES HERVEY . lv in it. ...
... gave him great uneafinefs ; but he encouraged all his parishoners , and other ferious Chrift- ians , to refort to him , and converfe free- ly about their eternal interefts . He al- ways preached C 2 MR . JAMES HERVEY . lv in it. ...
Page lvi
... gave them a few particular texts to read at home , and concluded with an earneft exhortation , as before mentioned . This was falling into a good Calvanistical practice of the famous old reformers . He made it his conftant practice to ...
... gave them a few particular texts to read at home , and concluded with an earneft exhortation , as before mentioned . This was falling into a good Calvanistical practice of the famous old reformers . He made it his conftant practice to ...
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Page 29 - Yea, like as a father pitieth his own children, even so is the Lord merciful unto them that fear Him.
Page xvii - Remarks on Lord Bolingbroke's Letters on the study and use of history, so far as they relate to the history of the. Old Testament, and especially to the case of Noah denouncing a curse upon Canaan: in a letter to a Lady of Quality...
Page lviii - not to let his left hand know what his right hand did," and a hope that others would follow his example.
Page l - When his body was conveyed to church, it was covered, by his express desire, with the poor's pall, and he was buried under the middle of the communion-table in the chancel of Weston-Favel church, on Friday, Dec.
Page 16 - Cast away from you your transgressions, make you a new heart, and a new spirit ; so iniquity shall not be your ruin." " Perhaps you may be disposed to contemn this and its serious purport, or to recommend it to your companions as a subject for raillery.
Page li - ... (rarely into more, and never exceeding three), he would speak briefly, and, at the conclusion of each head, enforce what he had said by a pertinent text of Scripture, desiring his congregation (which was generally very numerous) to turn to their Bibles, and double down that text.
Page xiii - After commending several clergymen, his friends, whom he saw on the road, he concludes thus : " My animal nature is so very feeble, that I find no benefit from the change of air, nor from the enjoyment of the most pleasant society.
Page 5 - Hervey, death is knocking at my doors ; in a few hours more I shall draw my last gasp, and then judgment, the tremendous judgment ! How shall I appear, unprepared as I am, before the allknowing and omnipotent God ! how shall I endure the day of his coming...
Page 4 - I visited him, oh, how was the glory departed from him ! I found him no more that sprightly and vivacious son of joy, which he used to be; but languishing, pining away, and withering under the...
Page 48 - So when this corruptible fhall have put on incorruption, and this mortal fhall have put on immortality, then fhall be brought to pafs the faying that is written, Death is fwallowed up in viftory.