A Treatise of Repentance and of FastingJ.H. Parker, 1841 - 213 pages |
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... served either to feed sloth , or to heat melancholy by mysti- cal arts of musing into distraction ; in which things , human nature , as it is in imperfect man , needs no assistances . Blessed be God , we have at this day , in this ...
... served either to feed sloth , or to heat melancholy by mysti- cal arts of musing into distraction ; in which things , human nature , as it is in imperfect man , needs no assistances . Blessed be God , we have at this day , in this ...
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... serves to some purpose , and is useful in its kind . And therefore the apostle doth not speak slightingly of it ( as men are apt to understand his words in our translation ) but rather com- mends it ; though with diminution , in respect ...
... serves to some purpose , and is useful in its kind . And therefore the apostle doth not speak slightingly of it ( as men are apt to understand his words in our translation ) but rather com- mends it ; though with diminution , in respect ...
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... served to humble it , and bring down the pride and wantonness of it . Epiph- anius thus reckons them up ; when he speaks of the exercises that accompanied their pray- ers , in the week before Easter . ' 1 Χαμευνίαι , ἁγνεῖαι ...
... served to humble it , and bring down the pride and wantonness of it . Epiph- anius thus reckons them up ; when he speaks of the exercises that accompanied their pray- ers , in the week before Easter . ' 1 Χαμευνίαι , ἁγνεῖαι ...
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... serves to be stript of all other blessings , which God hath adorned him withal . 4. They are a just acknowledgment like- wise of his offences , which have made him thus unworthy and plainly declare also that he looks with detestation ...
... serves to be stript of all other blessings , which God hath adorned him withal . 4. They are a just acknowledgment like- wise of his offences , which have made him thus unworthy and plainly declare also that he looks with detestation ...
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... served in the Roman story , of the Equus Sejanus , a famous horse , which belonged to a gentleman of Rome called Segus . Which was highly admired by every body for his goodly shape , fine colour , and delicate pace : but 76 WHAT USE THE ...
... served in the Roman story , of the Equus Sejanus , a famous horse , which belonged to a gentleman of Rome called Segus . Which was highly admired by every body for his goodly shape , fine colour , and delicate pace : but 76 WHAT USE THE ...
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Page 201 - Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.
Page 10 - Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners ; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep : let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
Page 83 - Because I have called, and ye have refused ; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded ; but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh...
Page 82 - And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
Page 1 - And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth ; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Page 89 - Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away.
Page 84 - ... Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; when your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
Page 88 - In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks. I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.
Page 73 - Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have 4 refused to return.
Page 96 - The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this Publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. And the Publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.