The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow: SermonsA. J. Valpy, 1831 |
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... true satisfaction therein , and render it no less unsavory to us , than unprofitable to others . If we are poor , we should have a frugal , provident , indus- trious mind , sparing in desires , free from curiosity , willing to take ...
... true satisfaction therein , and render it no less unsavory to us , than unprofitable to others . If we are poor , we should have a frugal , provident , indus- trious mind , sparing in desires , free from curiosity , willing to take ...
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... true of this virtue ; it is an art , with which we are not born , no more than with any other art or science ; the which , as other arts , cannot be acquired with- out studious application of mind and industrious exercise : no art ...
... true of this virtue ; it is an art , with which we are not born , no more than with any other art or science ; the which , as other arts , cannot be acquired with- out studious application of mind and industrious exercise : no art ...
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... true , who hath promised to help us , we could not be discontented for fear of any want . We must at least , in so doing , suspect God to be deficient in goodness toward us , or unwilling to help us ; or we must ap- prehend him impotent ...
... true , who hath promised to help us , we could not be discontented for fear of any want . We must at least , in so doing , suspect God to be deficient in goodness toward us , or unwilling to help us ; or we must ap- prehend him impotent ...
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... true reason , we may find that neither the absence of the former , nor the presence of the latter , renders our case deplorable . Instance of poverty ; which is shown to be but the absence of a few superfluous things , which please our ...
... true reason , we may find that neither the absence of the former , nor the presence of the latter , renders our case deplorable . Instance of poverty ; which is shown to be but the absence of a few superfluous things , which please our ...
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... true friends may satisfy us : however if all other friendships should fail , there is one remains , worth millions of other friends , who can never prove unfaith- ful or inconstant , who never will be unmindful of us , or defi- cient in ...
... true friends may satisfy us : however if all other friendships should fail , there is one remains , worth millions of other friends , who can never prove unfaith- ful or inconstant , who never will be unmindful of us , or defi- cient in ...
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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.