On the influence of practical piety in promoting the temporal and eternal happiness of mankind

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J. Vincent, 1843 - Piety - 23 pages
 

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Page 16 - Who, if he rise to station of command, Rises by open means, and there will stand On honourable terms, or else retire And in himself possess his own desire; Who comprehends his trust and to the same Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim...
Page 13 - And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Page 8 - Who, whether praise of him must walk the earth For ever, and to noble deeds give birth, Or he must fall, to sleep without his fame. And leave a dead unprofitable name, Finds comfort in himself and in his cause ; And, while the mortal mist is gathering, draws His breath in confidence of Heaven's applause: This is the happy warrior; this is he That every man in arms should wish to be.
Page 16 - More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure, As tempted more ; more able to endure, As more exposed to suffering and distress ; Thence, also, more alive to tenderness...
Page 11 - Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me : for that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord : they would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Page 20 - God's wrath and damnation. And this infection of nature doth remain — yea, in them that are regenerated ; whereby the lust of the flesh, called in Greek phronema sarkos, which some do expound the wisdom, some sensuality, some the affection, some the desire of the flesh, is not subject to the Law of God. And although there is no condemnation for them that believe and are baptized, yet the Apostle doth confess that concupiscence and lust hath of itself the nature of sin.
Page 22 - Lord has taught us to pray that the will of God may be done on earth as it is- in heaven.
Page 6 - ... the variety of beauty and magnificence, with which the Almighty has adorned his vast creation — which are open to the contemplation of all — are overlooked by the worldling as unworthy of his regard. In short, the folly of covetousness appears in its most striking light, in preferring objects which are seen and temporal to those which are unseen and eternal.
Page 13 - God always before him, and who seeks above all things his favor and approbation, must sometimes make great and painful sacrifices to the commands of his Maker and Redeemer ; and whoever does so, whoever gives up his pleasures, his interests, his fame, his favourite pursuits, his fondest wishes, and his strongest passions, for the sake of his duty, and in conformity to the will of his heavenly Father, may rest assured, that he shall in no wise lose his reward. He shall in a degree proportioned to...
Page 12 - Paulh expressly declares, that "godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

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