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... miserable . To which purpose , it shall be requisite , first , to remove all causes of unquietness ; and then , to set down the grounds of our happy rest . SECT . IV . Enemies of inward Peace divided into their ranks . — The Torment of ...
... miserable . To which purpose , it shall be requisite , first , to remove all causes of unquietness ; and then , to set down the grounds of our happy rest . SECT . IV . Enemies of inward Peace divided into their ranks . — The Torment of ...
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... miserable : for the mind , cloyed with continual felicity , would grow a burden to itself , loathing that , at last , which intermission would have made pleasant . Give a free horse the full reins , and he will soon tire . Summer is the ...
... miserable : for the mind , cloyed with continual felicity , would grow a burden to itself , loathing that , at last , which intermission would have made pleasant . Give a free horse the full reins , and he will soon tire . Summer is the ...
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... miserable , leaves them des- perate . The best way therefore is , to make things present , in conceit , before they come ; that they may be half past in their violence , when they do come : even as with wooden wasters , we learn to play ...
... miserable , leaves them des- perate . The best way therefore is , to make things present , in conceit , before they come ; that they may be half past in their violence , when they do come : even as with wooden wasters , we learn to play ...
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... miserable . If thou wilt not , therefore , be opprest with evils , EXPECT and EXERCISE : exercise thyself with conceit of evils : expect the evils themselves ; yea exercise thyself in expectation : so , while the mind pleaseth itself in ...
... miserable . If thou wilt not , therefore , be opprest with evils , EXPECT and EXERCISE : exercise thyself with conceit of evils : expect the evils themselves ; yea exercise thyself in expectation : so , while the mind pleaseth itself in ...
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... miserable . SECT . XV . Of the importunity and terror of Death . YEA , this consideration is so powerful , that it alone is able . to make a part against the fear or sense of the last and greatest of all terribles , Death itself : which ...
... miserable . SECT . XV . Of the importunity and terror of Death . YEA , this consideration is so powerful , that it alone is able . to make a part against the fear or sense of the last and greatest of all terribles , Death itself : which ...
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Page 455 - Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
Page 387 - ... a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing...
Page 375 - There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
Page 377 - Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
Page 498 - Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.
Page 345 - Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Page 449 - To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak : I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
Page 405 - He hath not dealt with us after our sins ; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward them that fear Him.
Page 451 - I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich,) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
Page 502 - Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee ; leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way ; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.