Exercise of Piety: Or, Meditations on the Principal Doctrines and Duties of Religion. For the Use of Enlightened and Virtuous ChristiansI. Thomas, 1803 - 191 頁 |
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第 84 頁 - Produce ! Produce ! Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a Product, produce it in God's name ! 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee; out with it then. Up, up ! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might. Work while it is called To-day, for the Night cometh wherein no man can work.
第 74 頁 - A new commandment I give unto " you, That ye love one another: as I have loved you, " that ye alfo love one another. By this fhall all men " know that ye are my difciples, if ye love one ano
第 17 頁 - ... and the harmony which prevail in my thoughts, will not suffer me to believe it. I cannot but observe that my mind is of a much nobler origin, and is of a nature far superior to the body which serves for its covering. I perceive that my soul is the work of a Being superior to all those which I see around me — that it proceeds from an immaterial, intelligent principle, by whom it lives and thinks, and to whom it is most intimately related. To believe that there is a first, eternal cause of all...
第 28 頁 - The eyes of *• all wait upon thee, and thou giveft them their ** meat in due feafon ; thou openeft thine hand, and " fatisfieft the defire of every living thing.
第 84 頁 - God and good men, and to all as far as we can ; for so we are obliged, as we are members of communities, cities, and nations, and as we are inhabitants of the world. And in order to be thus useful, let us set before ourselves the glorious example of Christ, whose meat and drink it was to do the will of his heavenly Father, and who went about always doing good.
第 101 頁 - What a recompenfe will attend it in this world and another. May I be more penetrated with a fenfe of its dignity and importance, that I may acquit myfelf with a zeal that...
第 43 頁 - Thanksgivings are when we praise and thank God for the great mercies, graces, and gifts which we have received at His hands. For we must acknowledge that " Every good and perfect gift cometh down from above, from the Father of lights," and is by His mercy freely given. Prayer generally may be divided into two parts, petition and thanksgiving : in the one we ask of God ; in the other we offer unto God: both are accepted as sweet-smelling sacrifices; pure, and, through the merit of His Son, pleasant...
第 117 頁 - I entertain at preient the fame opinion of the important defign of youth as I (hall certainly have in maturer years, and in old age, in the hours of retirement and recollection, and at the approach of death. But ah ! how different is the point of view in which manhood and old age fee the days of their youth, from that in which they are beheld by the young man himfelf ! And how much...