The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow: SermonsA. J. Valpy, 1831 |
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... pain ) ought to satisfy our desires : but these and the like judgments will come opportunely to be con- sidered as motives to the practice of the duty . 2. From such acts of our mind , or intellective part , con- cerning things incident ...
... pain ) ought to satisfy our desires : but these and the like judgments will come opportunely to be con- sidered as motives to the practice of the duty . 2. From such acts of our mind , or intellective part , con- cerning things incident ...
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... pains , able to digest hardships ; otherwise the straitness of our condition will pinch and gall us . Are we high in dignity or reputation ? we then need a mind well ballasted with sober thoughts , otherwise the wind of vanity will ...
... pains , able to digest hardships ; otherwise the straitness of our condition will pinch and gall us . Are we high in dignity or reputation ? we then need a mind well ballasted with sober thoughts , otherwise the wind of vanity will ...
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... pains and their sores . ' Into such profane enormities of language is dis- content apt to break forth , questioning the power of God , or his willingness to succor us ; venting wrath and displeasure toward him ; charging him foolishly ...
... pains and their sores . ' Into such profane enormities of language is dis- content apt to break forth , questioning the power of God , or his willingness to succor us ; venting wrath and displeasure toward him ; charging him foolishly ...
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... pain , if their friends are about them , affording comfort or assistance , do not seem to feel any thing , and for- bear complaining ; so , if the world about us doth please us , if we bear no disaffection or grudge toward any person in ...
... pain , if their friends are about them , affording comfort or assistance , do not seem to feel any thing , and for- bear complaining ; so , if the world about us doth please us , if we bear no disaffection or grudge toward any person in ...
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... pain toward the ac- quiry of it , there being so many difficulties , so many obstacles in the way thereto : we have no great capacity , no towardly disposition to learn it ; we must , in doing it , deny our carnal sense , we must settle ...
... pain toward the ac- quiry of it , there being so many difficulties , so many obstacles in the way thereto : we have no great capacity , no towardly disposition to learn it ; we must , in doing it , deny our carnal sense , we must settle ...
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Page 202 - They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches ; None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him...
Page 15 - Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?
Page 481 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Page 201 - Surely every man walketh in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Page 276 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 83 - For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
Page 377 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Page 82 - For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons ; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not ? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Page 474 - Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing ; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked...
Page 283 - No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.