Practical Discourses Upon the Consideration of Our Latter End: And the Danger and Mischief of Delaying Repentance. By Isaac Barrow, ...

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Brab. Aylmer; and sold, 1712 - 176 Seiten

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Seite 4 - LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am.
Seite 40 - REASONING WITH THEMSELVES, BUT not aright, Our life is short and tedious, and in the death of a man there is no remedy: neither was there any man known to have returned from the grave. For we are born at all adventure: and we shall be hereafter as though we had never been: for the breath in our nostrils is as smoke, and a little spark in the moving of our heart: which being extinguished, our body shall be turned into ashes, and our spirit shall vanish as the soft air...
Seite 51 - ALMIGHTY God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, (in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility...
Seite 134 - James iv. 8. He will certainly grant our petitions, and we shall receive, that our joy may be full. John xvi. 24. For the Lord is good, and ready to forgive, and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon him (Ps.
Seite 94 - I leave entirely with him, and can only say, ' all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Seite 19 - Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: To be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Seite 120 - Sin is never at a ftay ; if we do not retreat from it, we mall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back ; every...
Seite 41 - O DEATH, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liveth at rest in his possessions, Unto the man that hath nothing to vex him, and that hath prosperity in all things: Yea, unto him that is yet able to receive meat!
Seite 140 - I did fometime from the deep of the fea. 23 That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and that the tongue of thy dogs may be red through...

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