Comforts of Old Age ... Fourth editionJohn Murray, 1818 - 264 pages |
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affections ALASNAM anxiety appetite appointed Archbishop Archbishop of Cambray Archbishop Tenison attended beauty benevolent BISHOP GIBSON BISHOP HOUGH Bishop of London Bishop of Worcester blessings bodily body born Brother calm charity Christian Church clergy College comfort dear death degree delight derive desire devotion died divine Duke duty endeavoured enjoy enjoyment entertain Epic Poetry eternal exertions existence faith faithful Adam father feel fulness glory gratification gratitude habits happiness Hartlebury heart HOLY hope hour immortal indulgence infirmities intellectual JOHN FLOYER King labour late lived Lord Bishop Lord Somers LYTTELTON Magdalen College Marshal MARSHAL VILLARS mean ment mercy mind mortal nature ness never object observe old age pain peace period persuaded perusal piety pious pleasure prayer present preserve religion resignation Scripture sensual soon soul spirit temper thing thought tion tranquillity tureen vigour Villars virtue Walpole young youth
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Page 118 - The secret (things belong) unto the Lord our God: but those (things which are) revealed (belong) unto us and to our children forever, that (we) may do all the words of this law.
Page 182 - The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee : but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
Page 60 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 222 - He used often to say, that if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn; it looking like a pilgrim's going home, to whom this world was all as an inn, and who was weary of the noise and confusion in it.
Page 201 - you shall be my confessor : when I first set out in the world, I had friends who endeavoured to shake my belief in the Christian religion. I saw difficulties which staggered me ; but I kept my mind open to conviction. The evidences and doctrines of Christianity, studied with attention, made me a most firm and persuaded believer of the Christian religion. I have made it the rule of my life, and it is the ground of my future hopes.
Page 238 - I do not understand the doctrine of Luther, or Calvin, or Melancthon ; nor the confession of Augusta, or Geneva, nor the catechism of Heidelberg, nor the articles of the church of England, no nor the harmony of protestant confessions ; but that wherein they all agree, and which they all subscribe with a greater harmony, as a perfect rule of their faith and actions, that is, the Bible. The Bible, I say, the Bible only is the religion of protestants.
Page 239 - I, for my part, after a long, and (as I verily believe and hope) impartial search of the true way to eternal happiness, do profess plainly, that I cannot find any rest for the sole of my foot but upon this rock only.
Page 8 - No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate: But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
Page 65 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...
Page 239 - In other things I will take no man's liberty of judgment from him ; neither shall any man take mine from me. I will think no man the worse man, nor the worse Christian, I will love no man the less, for differing in opinion from me. And what measure I mete to others, I expect from them again.