 | John Norris - Christian life - 1710 - 424 pages
...firft Familiarized to them, and then in Love with them. And fo the World with all its vain Pageantry, the Luft of the Flefh, the Luft of the Eye, and the Pride of Life, insinuates it. felf into our Affeftions, and takes an early PoiTeffion of our Hearts. And by... | |
 | Philo-Delphus (pseud.) - 1719 - 332 pages
...John V. The Cbriftian Covenant Z. The things of this World? 4. Yes. For, all that is in the World, is the Luft of the Flefh, the Luft of the Eye, and the Pride of Life. i John i\. 16. And thefe fpecious but empty -Objects are its Pomps and Vanities. Q. Now that... | |
 | George Whitefield - Presbyterian Church - 1739 - 358 pages
...Hearts to make the fame Choice of thee, their only Good ; and may they always renounce and triumph over the Luft of the Flefh, the Luft of the Eye, and the Pride of Life. Finally, do thou, O blefied Jefu, who at twelve Years old was found in the Temple, fitting among... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1743 - 224 pages
...Then I asked, bmu many Children he halt ? He faid, 17aai fa bad but tbree Daughter•, The Luft .-tt?i of the Flefh, The Luft of the Eye, and The • .' . Pride of Life ; and that 1 should marry them if I would. Then I asked, how -iong Time he •\ }oh. 21. would... | |
 | George Lavington - Enthusiasm - 1754 - 276 pages
...in the main they are fome of the beft People in the World, only wrong in a few Points. — They love God, and love one another, and excel in, Sweetnefs...increafes more and more ; he even marvels how he can abjiain from joining them. His own Difciples among the Methodijls go over to them in Crowds. But ftill... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - Bible - 1763 - 586 pages
...natural principles, and thefe are corrupt ; fuch as the defires of the flefh and of the mind, the lufts of the flefh, the luft of the eye, and the pride of life. At beft their natural life flows from felf-love, or love to its own honour, praifes, profits... | |
 | John Witherspoon, William Shenstone - Grace (Theology) - 1765 - 298 pages
...unreftrained indulgence of pleafure. Senfud appetite and paffion carry them on with unbridled fury. The luft of the flefh, the luft of the eye, and the pride of life, poffefs their affections, and their prevailing defire is to gratify thefe appetites, as far as... | |
 | George Whitefield - Presbyterian Church - 1772 - 490 pages
...days of their youth^ when, if ever, they have a relifli for fehfual pleafures^ fubduing and defpifmg the luft of the flefh, the luft of the eye^ and the pride of life ; this, this is pleafmg to GoD } this vindicates his injured honour ; this (hews that his fervice... | |
 | Thomas Hunter - Letters - 1776 - 306 pages
...and laws, he extinguifhes or abforbs, in directing the whole man to the gratification of of the lufts of the flefh, the luft of the eye, and the pride of life. Men, and the Noble Lord among the reft, are only more refpectable animals, born to breathe, to... | |
 | William Penn - Society of Friends - 1782 - 506 pages
...the affections and pafllons of men, and the rife and tendency of things ; what it was that gratified the " luft of the flefh, the luft of the eye, and the " pride of life, which are not of the Father, but of the " world." And from thence fprang, in the night of darknefs... | |
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The luft of the flefh, the luft of the eye, and the pride of life, are inconfiftent with the love of the Father, /'. e. 
