 | rev. John Brougham - 1813 - 344 páginas
...love justice and mercy, and to walk humbly before God ; to endeavour quietly to do our duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call us ; and to the end that we may never deviate from the path of virtue unapprized of our danger, the providence... | |
 | Richard Mant - 1813 - 440 páginas
...neglect of our ordinary business; without a proper attention to which we cannot be doing our duty in that state of life, to which it has pleased God to call us. If however we are not hereby called upon to be always actually praying, we are required to be always... | |
 | William Dealtry - 1827 - 700 páginas
...prohibit a reasonable attention to those pursuits which our situation demands. We are bound to do our duty in the state of life to which it has pleased God to call us. But He does, in the most decisive terms, call upon us to make the concerns of the soul the first object,... | |
 | 1827 - 590 páginas
...prohibit a reasonable attention to those pursuits which our situation demands. We are bound to do our duty in the state of life to which it has pleased God to call us. But He does, in the most decisive terms, call upon us to make the concerns of the soul the first object,... | |
 | 1827 - 428 páginas
...to our Master, or wish to appropriate part to ourselves ? For instance, when doing any duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call us, we may satisfy our fellow-men, and gain their approbation, but if we neglect to thank God for giving... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 276 páginas
...natural temper and good spirits, or, in better words than mine, a disposition to ' be contented in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call us.' " '•'I never heard the catechism better enforced, "said De Vere, smiling; " but there must still... | |
 | Irish pulpit - 1827 - 600 páginas
...to our Master, or wish to appropriate part to ourselves ? For instance, when doing any duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call us, we may satisfy our fellow-men, and gain their approbation, but if we neglect to thank God for giving... | |
 | Lucy Lyttelton Cameron - 1828 - 140 páginas
...persecuted shall be blessed. We may in this place explain righteousness to mean, the doing our duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call us. Take it in this sense, and you will soon see very plainly how righteousness leads to persecution. For... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1835 - 608 páginas
...more general application ; and the point on which I have ventured to write, cheerful contentment " in the state of life to which it has pleased God to call us," is a lesson that we all require to learn. Far be it from me to assert or to imply that the class of... | |
 | Reginald Heber (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1837 - 408 páginas
...holiness, and, more particularly, an unceasing attention to those particular duties, which belong to that state of life, to which it has pleased God to call us. What others possess is nothing to us : — but, of what we ourselves possess, be it much or little,... | |
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We have, however, a plain precept to follow, which is, to do our duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call us. 
