Select Pieces, from the Practical and Devotional Writings of the Eminently Pious and Learned Bishop HallGeorge Virtue, 1838 - 527 pages |
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... wisdom Vanity of worldly hopes Life a burden Heat of the sun Exemption from troubles 213 214 214 215 215 216 216 217 - 217 - 218 218 219 220 220 221 221 222 222 223 - 223 224 224 225 Earthly and heavenly gifts 225 Heavenly inheritance ...
... wisdom Vanity of worldly hopes Life a burden Heat of the sun Exemption from troubles 213 214 214 215 215 216 216 217 - 217 - 218 218 219 220 220 221 221 222 222 223 - 223 224 224 225 Earthly and heavenly gifts 225 Heavenly inheritance ...
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... wisdom thought fit to mitigate thy many days ' pain with the ease of one hour , it had been well worthy of thy thanks ; but now that it hath beforehand requited thy few painful hours with years of perfect health , how unthankfully dost ...
... wisdom thought fit to mitigate thy many days ' pain with the ease of one hour , it had been well worthy of thy thanks ; but now that it hath beforehand requited thy few painful hours with years of perfect health , how unthankfully dost ...
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... wisdom of God thought fit to temper our afflictions , by so contriving them , that if they be sharp , they are not long ; and if they be long , they are not over sharp ; that our strength might not be overlaid by our trials , either way ...
... wisdom of God thought fit to temper our afflictions , by so contriving them , that if they be sharp , they are not long ; and if they be long , they are not over sharp ; that our strength might not be overlaid by our trials , either way ...
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... wisdom . That most free and alwise Agent will not be tied to walk always in one path ; but varies his courses , according to the pleasure of his own will . One man he calls suddenly , another by leisure ; one by a kind of holy violence ...
... wisdom . That most free and alwise Agent will not be tied to walk always in one path ; but varies his courses , according to the pleasure of his own will . One man he calls suddenly , another by leisure ; one by a kind of holy violence ...
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... wisdom , let him ask of God , who giveth to all men libe- rally , and upbraideth not , and it shall be given him . James i . 5 . Were this condition offered us for worldly riches , who would be poor . If we embrace it not in spiritual ...
... wisdom , let him ask of God , who giveth to all men libe- rally , and upbraideth not , and it shall be given him . James i . 5 . Were this condition offered us for worldly riches , who would be poor . If we embrace it not in spiritual ...
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Page 40 - For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge ! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
Page 471 - In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.
Page 203 - ... but speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ : From whom the whole body fitly joined together, and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body, unto the edifying of itself in love.
Page 143 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Page 246 - And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beasts and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.
Page 192 - But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held ; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Page 189 - Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth ? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Page 460 - Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
Page 205 - ... in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak ? who is offended, and I burn not?
Page 205 - Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another, according to Christ Jesus ; that ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.