An essay of particular advice to the young gentry, by the author of Youths grand concern [signed J.G.]. |
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... Things , ef- pecially where there are great Dangers and Difficulties to be avoided or conquered , great Advantages to be improved , and immenfe Re- wards to be won or loft , all which require Care and Conduct , Courage and Induftry ...
... Things , ef- pecially where there are great Dangers and Difficulties to be avoided or conquered , great Advantages to be improved , and immenfe Re- wards to be won or loft , all which require Care and Conduct , Courage and Induftry ...
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... Things it treats of , The Reasons that moved the Author to write and publish it , CHA P. I. P. xv Of the Difficulties and Temptations to which the Young Gentry may be expofed more than others , P. p . I p . 2 Some general Defcription of ...
... Things it treats of , The Reasons that moved the Author to write and publish it , CHA P. I. P. xv Of the Difficulties and Temptations to which the Young Gentry may be expofed more than others , P. p . I p . 2 Some general Defcription of ...
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... Things of this lower World , and how infufficient they are to make them happy , 2. That they labour by a lively Faith to take a daily Profpect of the great , future , eternal Things of the other World , P. 115 3. That they humbly and ...
... Things of this lower World , and how infufficient they are to make them happy , 2. That they labour by a lively Faith to take a daily Profpect of the great , future , eternal Things of the other World , P. 115 3. That they humbly and ...
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... Things which is the Refult of a watchful Circumfpe & ion , P. 133 7. That they furnish themselves with particular Arguments against the particular Sins to which their Rank , and Quality , and Con- dition in the World , may occafionally ...
... Things which is the Refult of a watchful Circumfpe & ion , P. 133 7. That they furnish themselves with particular Arguments against the particular Sins to which their Rank , and Quality , and Con- dition in the World , may occafionally ...
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... things for the most part they foon understand , and fufficiently value . But with a tender Re- gard to their Souls , as well as with all Defer- ence to their Quality , I beg Leave to remind them of a far more important Distinction a ...
... things for the most part they foon understand , and fufficiently value . But with a tender Re- gard to their Souls , as well as with all Defer- ence to their Quality , I beg Leave to remind them of a far more important Distinction a ...
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Page 168 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Page 167 - 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.
Page 181 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Page 3 - He made him ride on the high places of the earth, That he might eat the increase of the fields; And he made him to suck honey out of the rock, And oil out of the flinty rock...
Page 61 - I might not die eternally! and my hope is that I shall shortly leave this valley of tears, and be free from all fevers and pain; and, which will be a more happy condition, I shall be free from sin, and all the temptations and anxieties that attend it; and this being past, I shall dwell in the New Jerusalem; dwell there with men made perfect; dwell where these eyes shall see my Master and Saviour Jesus; and with Him see my dear mother and all my relations and friends.
Page 147 - It was ordained for the procreation of children, to be brought up in the fear and nurture of the Lord, and to the praise of his holy name.
Page 59 - Chrysostom to commend and declare it ; a life, that if it were related by a pen like his, there would then be no need for this age to look back into times past for the examples of primitive piety; for they might be all found in the life of George Herbert.
Page 56 - I need not their help, to reprove the vanity of those many love-poems that are daily writ and consecrated to Venus ; nor to bewail that so few are writ, that look towards God and heaven. For my own part, my meaning (dear mother) is in these sonnets, to declare my resolution to be, that my poor abilities in poetry shall be all and ever consecrated...
Page 60 - I beseech him that my humble and charitable life may so win upon others as to bring glory to my JESUS, whom I have this day taken to be my Master and Governor; and I am so proud of his service that I will always observe, and obey, and do his will; and always call him Jesus my Master...
Page 59 - Woodnot looked in at the churchwindow, and saw him lie prostrate on the ground before the altar: at which time and place (as he after told Mr. Woodnot) he set some rules to himself, for the future manage of his life; and then and there made a vow, to labour to keep them.