A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians: In the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. By William Wilberforce, ...

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T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1798 - 307 pages
 

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Page 50 - 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. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer : they shall seek me early but they shall not find me...
Page 44 - Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Page 163 - Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches : but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth Me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth : for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.
Page 351 - O thou bounteous giver of all good, Thou art of all thy gifts thyself the crown ! Give what thou canst, without thee we are poor ; And with thee rich, take what thou wilt away.
Page 64 - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God : but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Page 65 - What better can we do, than to the place Repairing where he judg'd us, prostrate fall Before him reverent, and there confess Humbly our faults, and pardon beg, with tears Watering the ground, and with our sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite, in sign Of sorrow unfeign'd, and humiliation meek?
Page 388 - Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.
Page 111 - I put away childifh things: for now we fee through " a glafs darkly ; but then face to face : now I know in " part, but then fhall I know even as alfo I am known.
Page 329 - I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the fame bringeth forth much fruit ; for without me ye can do nothing.
Page 345 - Jefus the author and finifher of our faith; who for the joy that was fet before him, endured the crofs, defpifing the fhame; and is fet down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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