A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy LifeJ.M. Dent & Company, 1906 - 355 páginas |
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... mean this comparison , betwixt people seem- ingly good and professed rakes , but betwixt people of sober lives . Let us take an instance in two modest women let it be supposed that one of them is careful of times of devotion , and ...
... mean this comparison , betwixt people seem- ingly good and professed rakes , but betwixt people of sober lives . Let us take an instance in two modest women let it be supposed that one of them is careful of times of devotion , and ...
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... means of piety and holiness , or made so many parts of a wise and religious life . As he thus removes from all appearance of evil , so he hastens and aspires after every instance of goodness . He does not ask what is allowable and ...
... means of piety and holiness , or made so many parts of a wise and religious life . As he thus removes from all appearance of evil , so he hastens and aspires after every instance of goodness . He does not ask what is allowable and ...
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... means of grace we should have power to avoid ; and that we have not that per- fection , which our present state of grace makes us capable of , because we do not so much as intend to have it . It only teaches us that the reason why you ...
... means of grace we should have power to avoid ; and that we have not that per- fection , which our present state of grace makes us capable of , because we do not so much as intend to have it . It only teaches us that the reason why you ...
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... means of being a gainer by all that I undertook . But what is the reason that I have brought none of these tempers to religion ? What is the reason that I , who have so often talked of the necessity of rules , and methods , and ...
... means of being a gainer by all that I undertook . But what is the reason that I have brought none of these tempers to religion ? What is the reason that I , who have so often talked of the necessity of rules , and methods , and ...
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... means of rendering our souls more exalted and divine , but we are forbidden to lay up treasures upon earth ; † and can we think that it is not as bad to be vain of those treasures which we are forbidden to lay up , as to be vain of ...
... means of rendering our souls more exalted and divine , but we are forbidden to lay up treasures upon earth ; † and can we think that it is not as bad to be vain of those treasures which we are forbidden to lay up , as to be vain of ...
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