Sermons, Volume 5T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1814 - Presbyterian Church |
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... becomes a very ma- terial part both of wisdom and of duty to attend to any regulations by which they may be properly conducted . For if ex- pectations and hopes on one hand , and fears and alarms on the other , are suffered to arise ...
... becomes a very ma- terial part both of wisdom and of duty to attend to any regulations by which they may be properly conducted . For if ex- pectations and hopes on one hand , and fears and alarms on the other , are suffered to arise ...
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... become one who knows that his state is ever in hazard of changing . But I mean to warn those , who , giving way to the elation of giddy hopes , lose the command of themselves , that by this in- toxication of mind they are preparing the ...
... become one who knows that his state is ever in hazard of changing . But I mean to warn those , who , giving way to the elation of giddy hopes , lose the command of themselves , that by this in- toxication of mind they are preparing the ...
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... becomes you to overlook and forbear ; and never to allow small fail- ings to dwell on your attention so much as to deface the whole of an amiable cha- racter . From trifling misunderstandings arising from the most frivolous causes ...
... becomes you to overlook and forbear ; and never to allow small fail- ings to dwell on your attention so much as to deface the whole of an amiable cha- racter . From trifling misunderstandings arising from the most frivolous causes ...
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... become accustomed to bear . Time and continuance reconcile us gra- dually to many things that were at first believed to be unsupportable . Providence has in mercy provided this gentle opiate to assuage various sorrows of human life ...
... become accustomed to bear . Time and continuance reconcile us gra- dually to many things that were at first believed to be unsupportable . Providence has in mercy provided this gentle opiate to assuage various sorrows of human life ...
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... becomes the more profound , that the Great Being who is the object of it , is to us invisible and unknown . may seek to discover him , but he hides him- self from us ; his footsteps we clearly trace , but his face we can never behold ...
... becomes the more profound , that the Great Being who is the object of it , is to us invisible and unknown . may seek to discover him , but he hides him- self from us ; his footsteps we clearly trace , but his face we can never behold ...
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