A Treatise on Self-knowledgeJ. Walker, 1816 - 268 Seiten |
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... manner , it degenerates into a vain and criminal curiosity . A fatal instance of this in our first pa rents we have upon sacred record , the unhappy ef- fects of which are but too visible in all . Self - knowledge is the subject of the ...
... manner , it degenerates into a vain and criminal curiosity . A fatal instance of this in our first pa rents we have upon sacred record , the unhappy ef- fects of which are but too visible in all . Self - knowledge is the subject of the ...
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... manner of persons we are . ' This discovers ourselves to us , pierces into the inmost recesses of the mind , strips off every dis- guise , lays open the inward part , makes a strict scrutiny into the very soul and spirit , and ...
... manner of persons we are . ' This discovers ourselves to us , pierces into the inmost recesses of the mind , strips off every dis- guise , lays open the inward part , makes a strict scrutiny into the very soul and spirit , and ...
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... manner of spirits they were of . ' Luke , ix . 55. And , saith the apostle , If a man ( through self - ignorance ) thinketh himself to be something , when he is nothing , he deceiveth him- self . But let every man prove his work , and ...
... manner of spirits they were of . ' Luke , ix . 55. And , saith the apostle , If a man ( through self - ignorance ) thinketh himself to be something , when he is nothing , he deceiveth him- self . But let every man prove his work , and ...
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... manner of thy behaviour , and the habits thou contractest , during this thy short copartnership with flesh and blood . O do nothing now , but what thou mayst , with pleasure , look back upon a million of ages hence ! For know , O my ...
... manner of thy behaviour , and the habits thou contractest , during this thy short copartnership with flesh and blood . O do nothing now , but what thou mayst , with pleasure , look back upon a million of ages hence ! For know , O my ...
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... some way be happy there , and much more happy than we can now conceive ; though in what particular manner we know not , because God hath not revealed it . CHAPTER III . The several relations in which we stand 12 A TREATISE ON.
... some way be happy there , and much more happy than we can now conceive ; though in what particular manner we know not , because God hath not revealed it . CHAPTER III . The several relations in which we stand 12 A TREATISE ON.
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 204 - For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: let him eschew evil, and do good ; let him seek peace and ensue it.
Seite 230 - The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Seite 222 - 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; For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord: They would none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Seite 204 - The lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they who seek the Lord, shall want no manner of thing that is good.
Seite 229 - Marvel not at this ; for the hour is coming in the which all that are in their graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth : they that have done good unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation ?
Seite 47 - But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him; for the Lord seeth not as man seeth ; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
Seite 83 - And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye ' Or how wilt thou (Say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye : and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Seite 211 - For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Seite 200 - The wicked flee when no man pursueth : but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Seite 197 - The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.