The Nature, Folly, Sin, and Danger of Being Righteous Over-much: With a Particular View to the Doctrines and Practices of Certain Modern Enthusiasts. Being the Substance of Four Discourses ...

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S. Austen, 1739 - 69 ページ
 

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18 ページ - Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy ; that they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate, laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
56 ページ - Antinomians, so denominated for rejecting the Law as a thing of no use under the Gospel dispensation : they say, that good works do not further nor evil works hinder salvation; that the child of God cannot sin, that God never chastiseth him, that murder, drunkenness...
12 ページ - ... to be a teacher, not only of all the laity in all parts of the Kingdom, but of the teachers themselves, the learned clergy, many of them learned before he was born...
50 ページ - Diligence, it feems, muft be employed to make it jure -, therefore it is not fure of itfelf. St. Paul advifes all in general, the moft regenerate not excepted, to work out their Salvation "with Fear and Trembling.
58 ページ - ... themselves." The author proceeds:—" For a clergyman of the Church of England to pray and preach in the fields, in the country, or in the streets of the city, is perfectly new, a fresh honour to the blessed age in which we have the happiness to live. I am ashamed to speak upon a subject, which is a reproach not only to our Church and country, but to human nature itself.
43 ページ - That there is fuch a thing as the Operation and Influence of the Holy Spirit upon our Souls ( for what elfe is God's Grace, without which we G 2 can . 'Ill li't can do no good thing ?) tho...
36 ページ - Temptations to allforfs of Tempers and Difpofitions. Thofe who are inclined to be profane and debauch'd, we need not fay how eafily he prevails upon. But as for thofe who are difpofed to be good and virtuous ; if he cannot prevail with them to be vicious, commonly fo caltd, he labours to make them over-virtuous, that is, vicious, tho' not commonly fo called : And fo involves them in the Dangers and Mifchiefs of which we are fpeaking.
57 ページ - For a clergyman of the Church of England to pray and preach in the fields, in the country, or in the streets of the city, is perfectly new, a fresh honour to the blessed age in which we have the happiness to live. I am ashamed to speak upon a subject, which is a reproach not only to our Church and country, but to human nature itself. Can it promote the Christian religion to turn it into riot, tumult, and...
29 ページ - SEeft thou a man wife in his own conceit, there is more hope of a fool than of him.
15 ページ - are bound to recede from your Right, and let him have it, rather

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