The Works of Thomas Secker...J. Dickson, 1792 |
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... become able , to hold fast that which is good , and abftain from all appearance of evil * : this is a potent corrective of whatever mistakes may chance to be infufed into them . Without this corrective , nay , prohibiting it as poison ...
... become able , to hold fast that which is good , and abftain from all appearance of evil * : this is a potent corrective of whatever mistakes may chance to be infufed into them . Without this corrective , nay , prohibiting it as poison ...
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... become willing . The reproach of it must wear off with the novelty ; the stories of their bad treatment there have been difproved , as fast as they have been raised ; and , I believe , the priests have often found it their wisdom not to ...
... become willing . The reproach of it must wear off with the novelty ; the stories of their bad treatment there have been difproved , as fast as they have been raised ; and , I believe , the priests have often found it their wisdom not to ...
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... become apoftates . Indeed why fhould not habit alone operate as powerfully in our favour , as against us ? And why ... become mafters of families , and take fervants from the fchools ; become rich , and contribute to fupport , to enlarge ...
... become apoftates . Indeed why fhould not habit alone operate as powerfully in our favour , as against us ? And why ... become mafters of families , and take fervants from the fchools ; become rich , and contribute to fupport , to enlarge ...
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... become fuch profligates , as the exam- ples and common talk , it may be feared , of fome families would make them . They had better think wrong in feveral articles of religion , than fcorn the whole ; and be ready to do mischief in ...
... become fuch profligates , as the exam- ples and common talk , it may be feared , of fome families would make them . They had better think wrong in feveral articles of religion , than fcorn the whole ; and be ready to do mischief in ...
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... become darkness * ; and what was calculated , beyond all things , to make us good and happy , perverted to make us wicked and miserable , this completes the forrow . Yet fo it is : The gold itself is become dim ; the most fine gold is ...
... become darkness * ; and what was calculated , beyond all things , to make us good and happy , perverted to make us wicked and miserable , this completes the forrow . Yet fo it is : The gold itself is become dim ; the most fine gold is ...
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Popular passages
Page 315 - Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight : but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Page 305 - If I take the wings of the morning, and remain in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there also shall thy hand lead me, And thy right hand shall hold me.
Page 368 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Page 368 - And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
Page 317 - Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of Him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
Page 392 - Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
Page 303 - I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
Page 493 - The body and blood of Christ which are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's Supper.
Page 428 - And the judges shall make diligent inquisition ; and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother, then shall ye do unto him as he had thought to have done unto his brother : so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
Page 284 - Let this mind be in you, which was alfo in Chrift Jefus : who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God : but made himfelf of no reputation, and took upon him the form* of a fervant, and was made in the likenefs of men. And being found in fafhion as a man, he humbled himfelf, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the crofs.