Moral Entertainments on the Most Important Practical Truths of the Christian Religion. In Three Volumes. By Robert Manning

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Tho. Meighan, 1742
 

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Page 216 - Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Page 2 - ... quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens ; women received their dead raised to life again ; and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection...
Page 105 - I will arise and will go to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee. I am not worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
Page 45 - And when he cometh, he findeth it fwept and garnifhed. Then goeth he and taketh to him feven other fpirits more wicked than himfelf, and they enter in, and dwell there; and the laft ftate of that man is worfe than the ftrft.
Page 100 - How many hired servants of my father have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
Page 222 - I'm afraid you have not loved me long enough to make our marriage be the Town-talk : for 'tis the fashion now to be the Town-talk, and you know one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.
Page 100 - ... wit, very earnestly lamenting his sins committed. Moreover, the prodigal son, and the publican in the Gospel, that is compared with the Pharisee, do set forth unto us a most fit pattern of confessing our sins to God. The prodigal son said, ' Father, I have sinned against heaven, and against thee : I am not worthy to be called thy son ; make me as one of thy hired servants
Page 328 - If any man will come after me, let him deny himfelf, take up his Crofs, and follow me.
Page 7 - I reckon that the Sufferings of this prefent " Time are not worthy to be compared with " the Glory which fhall be revealed in us " . . . Oh no, not worthy to be compared.
Page 2 - ... and others had trial of cruel mockings and scourging, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword : they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins ; being destitute, afflicted, tormented ; (of whom the world was not worthy :) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

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