The Works of the Learned and Reverend John Scott, D.D., Sometime Rector of St. Giles's in the Fields: I-VIClarendon Press, 1826 |
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... have found such rest and satisfaction of mind , as rendered my blackest apprehensions of the ensuing storm very tolerable . And now , because I would not eat my morsel alone , and enjoy my satisfaction to myself , I have endeavoured , a 4.
... have found such rest and satisfaction of mind , as rendered my blackest apprehensions of the ensuing storm very tolerable . And now , because I would not eat my morsel alone , and enjoy my satisfaction to myself , I have endeavoured , a 4.
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I-VI John Scott. enjoy my satisfaction to myself , I have endeavoured , by this following treatise of heaven , and the way thither , to break and distribute it among my distressed neighbours ; that so , by carrying their minds from these ...
I-VI John Scott. enjoy my satisfaction to myself , I have endeavoured , by this following treatise of heaven , and the way thither , to break and distribute it among my distressed neighbours ; that so , by carrying their minds from these ...
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... enjoy , are only short intermissions of the pains and uneasinesses of a wretched life . But if there were no other ... enjoyed by us , without a per- fect indolence and insensibility of pain ; it being impossible 6 PART I. Of the ...
... enjoy , are only short intermissions of the pains and uneasinesses of a wretched life . But if there were no other ... enjoyed by us , without a per- fect indolence and insensibility of pain ; it being impossible 6 PART I. Of the ...
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... enjoying , as they do , a most perfect re- pose , both from within and without them , they are never disturbed in their eager contemplations ; which having such a vast horizon of truth and glory round about them , are still discovering ...
... enjoying , as they do , a most perfect re- pose , both from within and without them , they are never disturbed in their eager contemplations ; which having such a vast horizon of truth and glory round about them , are still discovering ...
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... enjoy such an heaven upon earth , in the easy , free , and vigorous exercise of them , as we would not exchange for all the pleasures and felicities which the world can af- ford us . And yet , God knows , the most perfect state of ...
... enjoy such an heaven upon earth , in the easy , free , and vigorous exercise of them , as we would not exchange for all the pleasures and felicities which the world can af- ford us . And yet , God knows , the most perfect state of ...
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Page 469 - Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Page 328 - If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind...
Page 469 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me ? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
Page 471 - Wash you, make you clean ; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes. Cease to do evil, learn to do well. Seek judgment, relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Page 259 - And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; 12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
Page 367 - For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
Page 474 - And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Page 474 - God; who will render to every man according to his deeds: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil...
Page 473 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith : these ought ye to have done, and not to leave, the other undone.
Page 234 - Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves : for they watch for your souls, as they that must give an account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief.