The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life, Volume 3Parker, 1839 - Sermons, English |
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... unto us , and com- pass us with songs , with a joyful sense of our perseverance , but yet with cries too , with a solicitous fear , that that multiplicity and heinousness of our sins may weary even the incessant and indefatigable Spirit ...
... unto us , and com- pass us with songs , with a joyful sense of our perseverance , but yet with cries too , with a solicitous fear , that that multiplicity and heinousness of our sins may weary even the incessant and indefatigable Spirit ...
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... unto you , but such as carries some irksomeness , some bitterness with it ; we can create no true joy , no true acquiescence in you , without some exercise of your patience too . We cannot promise you peace with God , without a war in ...
... unto you , but such as carries some irksomeness , some bitterness with it ; we can create no true joy , no true acquiescence in you , without some exercise of your patience too . We cannot promise you peace with God , without a war in ...
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... unto him an humble and a diligent understanding ; conclude not too desperately against thyself , if thou have not yet attained to all degrees of faith , but admit that preparation , which God offers to thine understanding , by an ...
... unto him an humble and a diligent understanding ; conclude not too desperately against thyself , if thou have not yet attained to all degrees of faith , but admit that preparation , which God offers to thine understanding , by an ...
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... unto them , but yet not as in this text , where God makes use of the man himself for his own salvation . But yet it is God , and God alone that does all this , that rectifies our understanding , as well as that establishes our faith ...
... unto them , but yet not as in this text , where God makes use of the man himself for his own salvation . But yet it is God , and God alone that does all this , that rectifies our understanding , as well as that establishes our faith ...
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... unto you . First , De credendis , facit te intelligere , God will make you understand , you , for he will work upon your natural faculties supernaturally , and by them , convey faith . And then , de agendis , docebo in via , he will ...
... unto you . First , De credendis , facit te intelligere , God will make you understand , you , for he will work upon your natural faculties supernaturally , and by them , convey faith . And then , de agendis , docebo in via , he will ...
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The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life;, Volume 1 Henry Alford,John Donne No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 414 - Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all ? Why are they then baptized for the dead?
Page 81 - I SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
Page 184 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people...
Page 284 - And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 437 - Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
Page 60 - Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous : and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
Page 373 - It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel ; I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Page 18 - I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
Page 206 - What shall we say then ? Is the law sin ? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law : for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
Page 590 - The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.