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Common terms and phrasesactions advantage afflictions Almighty Atheism attain beasts Bishop Burnet bounty Christian comfort commend concerning condition conscience contentedness dangerous death desire discontent Divine Divine Providence doth duty earth elocution embased eminent employ employments endeavored enjoy esteemed everlasting evil EVIL ANGELS excellent exercise external faith Father fear forgive give glory grace greater greatest happiness heart heaven holy honor justice kind knowledge labor learning lives Lord Lord's day mand mankind ment mercies mind miscarriages Natural Philosophy NATURAL THEOLOGY nature necessity ness never obedience observe ourselves passion patience person portunities prayer reason redeem render reputation rich rience sanctification sensible sickness sins Sir Matthew Hale soul spect speech suita talents temptations thereof things thou art thou hast thought thy creatures thy Majesty thy Name thy providence tion troubles truth unto Thee virtue wealth wherein wisdom wise words Yale College Popular passagesPage 72 - For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory... Page 207 - If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, From doing thy pleasure on my holy day ; And call the sabbath a delight, The holy of the Lord, honourable; And shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, Nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord... Page 66 - But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. Page 121 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : and the sea saith, It is not with me. Page 39 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace ; then shall the LORD be my God : And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house : and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee. Page 78 - I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil. Page 198 - I have found, by a strict and diligent observation, that a due observation of the duty of this day hath ever had joined to it a blessing upon the rest of my time, and the week that hath been so begun hath been blessed... Page 66 - Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. Page 85 - If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give good things to them that ask Him? Page 56 - Let your conversation be without covetousness ; and be content with such things as ye have : for he hath said. I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. References from web pagesContemplations by Sir. Matthew Hale, Part I JSTOR: Thomas Traherne and the Art of Meditation Bibliographic information
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