Lives of Sir Matthew Hale and John Earl of Rochester

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William Pickering, 1829 - 330 pages
 

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Page 74 - The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart : and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
Page 287 - I say unto you that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance.
Page 89 - If he saw a cause was unjust, he for a great while would not meddle further in it, but to give his advice that it was so. If the parties after that would go on, they were to seek another counsellor, for he would assist none in acts of injustice.
Page 69 - ... last, as the winter came on, he saw with great joy his deliverance approaching; for besides his being weary of the world, and his longings for the blessedness of another state, his pains increased so on him, that no patience inferior to his could have borne them without a great uneasiness of mind ; yet he expressed to the last such submission to the will of God, and so equal a temper under them, that it was visible then what mighty effects his philosophy and Christianity had on him, in supporting...
Page 283 - But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Page 297 - I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
Page 264 - God, that as his life had done much hurt, so his death might do some good. Having understood all these things from him, and being pressed to give him my opinion plainly about his eternal state, I told him, that though the promises of the Gospel did all depend upon a real change of heart and life...
Page 90 - In his pleading he abhorred those too common faults of misreciting evidences, quoting precedents, or books falsely,or asserting things confidently ; by which ignorant juries, or weak judges, are too often wrought on. He pleaded with the same sincerity that he used in the other parts of his life, and...
Page 21 - Let thy solitary thoughts be profitable; view the evidences of thy salvation, the state of thy soul, the coming of Christ, thy own mortality ; it will make thee humble and watchful. Company. Do good to them. Use God's name reverently. Beware of leaving an ill impression of ill example.
Page 262 - He said to me, that, as he heard it read, he felt an inward force upon him, which did so enlighten his mind and convince him, that he could resist it no longer ; . for the words had an authority which did shoot like rays or beams in his mind ; so that he...

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