The Select Works of Archbishop Leighton: Prepared for the Practical Use of Private ChristiansPeirce & Parker, 1832 - 571 pages |
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Page iv
... live for what people will say of you ! As external effort increases , Prayer and the thoughtful peru- sal of God's word ought to increase in proportion . We are in danger of acting on a theory directly opposite , and of ar- guing ...
... live for what people will say of you ! As external effort increases , Prayer and the thoughtful peru- sal of God's word ought to increase in proportion . We are in danger of acting on a theory directly opposite , and of ar- guing ...
Page xiii
... live to Him that died for us . For myself , to what purpose is it to tell you , what the bearer can , that I grow old and sickly ; and though I have here great retirement , as great and possibly greater than I could readily find any ...
... live to Him that died for us . For myself , to what purpose is it to tell you , what the bearer can , that I grow old and sickly ; and though I have here great retirement , as great and possibly greater than I could readily find any ...
Page xvii
... live amongst men , and find so few men ; and amongst Christians , and find so few Christians ; so much talk and so little action ; religion turned almost to a tune and air of words ; and amidst all our pretty discourses , pusillan ...
... live amongst men , and find so few men ; and amongst Christians , and find so few Christians ; so much talk and so little action ; religion turned almost to a tune and air of words ; and amidst all our pretty discourses , pusillan ...
Page xviii
... live in celestial love within ; that will make all things without be very contemptible in our eyes . I should rove on did not I stop my- self , it falling out well too for that , to be hard upon the post - hours ere I thought of writing ...
... live in celestial love within ; that will make all things without be very contemptible in our eyes . I should rove on did not I stop my- self , it falling out well too for that , to be hard upon the post - hours ere I thought of writing ...
Page xxii
... live up to that belief , than bring him over to my opinion in whatsoever else beside . Would to God that men were but as holy as they might be in the worst of forms now among us ! Let us press them to be holy , and miscarry if they can ...
... live up to that belief , than bring him over to my opinion in whatsoever else beside . Would to God that men were but as holy as they might be in the worst of forms now among us ! Let us press them to be holy , and miscarry if they can ...
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