Observations on early rising and on early prayerLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1828 - 80 Seiten |
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... piety is to be sought not in the last , but in the first place . Their endeavours were successful , because they ... piety not only sanctifies but promotes our ho- nest undertakings in general . It is true that ambition may be success ...
... piety is to be sought not in the last , but in the first place . Their endeavours were successful , because they ... piety not only sanctifies but promotes our ho- nest undertakings in general . It is true that ambition may be success ...
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... by con- science , by Scripture - inasmuch as it has been successfully practised by the most pious in all ages and in all nations ; and lastly , in particular , by those whose great learning and piety has so much benefited our Country and ...
... by con- science , by Scripture - inasmuch as it has been successfully practised by the most pious in all ages and in all nations ; and lastly , in particular , by those whose great learning and piety has so much benefited our Country and ...
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... piety . Whether a man's purpose is to enjoy the utmost this life can give him , to excel in learning and acquirements , or to ren- der his life acceptable to his Creator , he will find his best success in rising early . For 39 learning ...
... piety . Whether a man's purpose is to enjoy the utmost this life can give him , to excel in learning and acquirements , or to ren- der his life acceptable to his Creator , he will find his best success in rising early . For 39 learning ...
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... piety is as exalted as their station ; who can refuse to deflect from the wise and vigilant tenor of their lives , to conform to customs which mili- tate against their vigilance ; who can break through the feeble barrier which custom ...
... piety is as exalted as their station ; who can refuse to deflect from the wise and vigilant tenor of their lives , to conform to customs which mili- tate against their vigilance ; who can break through the feeble barrier which custom ...
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... piety , to keep alive within us a sense of our duties , our un- worthiness , our dangers , our final desti- nation . It is the weapon by which we are to fight against the enemies that assail us with temptation . Like the angel's spear ...
... piety , to keep alive within us a sense of our duties , our un- worthiness , our dangers , our final desti- nation . It is the weapon by which we are to fight against the enemies that assail us with temptation . Like the angel's spear ...
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Seite 13 - This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works.
Seite 27 - On the other side, these faults prevented, the force and efficacy of the thing itself, when it drowneth not utterly, but fitly suiteth with matter altogether sounding to the praise of God, is in truth most admirable, and doth much edify, if not the understanding, because it teacheth not, yet surely the affection, because therein it worketh much. They . must have hearts very dry and tough, from whom the melody of Psalms doth not sometime draw that wherein a mind religiously affected delighteth.
Seite 26 - So that although we lay altogether aside the consideration of ditty or matter, the very harmony of sounds being framed in due sort and carried from the ear to the spiritual faculties of our souls, is by a native puissance and efficacy greatly available to bring to a perfect temper whatsoever is there troubled...
Seite 81 - And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.
Seite 88 - Beyond all this, we may find another reason why God hath scattered up and down several degrees of pleasure and pain, in all the things that environ and affect us, and blended them together, in almost all that our thoughts and senses have to do with ; that we finding imperfection, dissatisfaction, and want of...
Seite 96 - But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
Seite 29 - My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
Seite 30 - With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
Seite 164 - ETERNAL Lord God, who alone spreadest out the heavens, and rulest the raging of the sea...
Seite 76 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...