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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... expect to commence learned without study , as virtuous without the practice of virtue . Since therefore the formal happiness of our reasonable natures consists in the perfection of all the heavenly virtues , and it is by these alone ...
... expect to commence learned without study , as virtuous without the practice of virtue . Since therefore the formal happiness of our reasonable natures consists in the perfection of all the heavenly virtues , and it is by these alone ...
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... expect things more or less , according to the estimate which our best and most impartial reason makes of their worth and goodness . For he that affects things more than in the esteem of reason they deserve , affects them irrationally ...
... expect things more or less , according to the estimate which our best and most impartial reason makes of their worth and goodness . For he that affects things more than in the esteem of reason they deserve , affects them irrationally ...
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... expecting any ; and so in unex- pressible anguish they pine away a long eternity . And though they might find content and satisfac- tion , could they but divert their affections another way , and reconcile them to the heavenly enjoy ...
... expecting any ; and so in unex- pressible anguish they pine away a long eternity . And though they might find content and satisfac- tion , could they but divert their affections another way , and reconcile them to the heavenly enjoy ...
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... measure acquired this virtue , we can never be happy either here or hereafter . For whilst we are in this world , we must expect to be encompassed with continual crowds of evil ac- cidents CHAP . III . 59 The human virtues .
... measure acquired this virtue , we can never be happy either here or hereafter . For whilst we are in this world , we must expect to be encompassed with continual crowds of evil ac- cidents CHAP . III . 59 The human virtues .
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... expect to be hap- py , so long as we indulge and harbour them ? Wherefore , to remove this great impediment of our happiness , Christianity strictly enjoins us to practise this necessary virtue of fortitude , which con- sists in the due ...
... expect to be hap- py , so long as we indulge and harbour them ? Wherefore , to remove this great impediment of our happiness , Christianity strictly enjoins us to practise this necessary virtue of fortitude , which con- sists in the due ...
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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.