Jeremy Taylor

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Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1925 - 224 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 84 - When Abraham sat at his tent door, according to his custom, waiting to entertain strangers, he espied an old man, stooping and leaning on his staff, weary with age and travel, coming towards him, who was an hundred years of age. He received him kindly, washed his feet, provided supper, caused him to sit down; but observing that the old man...
الصفحة 164 - And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, " Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and * Eiins.' " consume them, even as 3 Elijah bd did? " But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, " Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is " not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
الصفحة 126 - Unless we eat the flesh of the son of man, and drink his blood, we have no life in us h :" and yet God forbid that every man that is not communicated, should die eternally.
الصفحة 156 - The body and blood of Christ which are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's Supper.
الصفحة 158 - I shall only crave leave that I may remember Jerusalem, and call to mind the pleasures of the temple, the order of her services, the beauty of her buildings, the sweetness of her songs...
الصفحة 84 - God answered him, I have suffered him these hundred years, although he dishonoured me; and couldst not thou endure him one night, when he gave thee no trouble ? Upon this, saith the story, Abraham fetched him back again, and gave him hospitable entertainment and wise instruction." Go thou, and do likewise, and thy charity will be rewarded by the God of Abraham.
الصفحة 84 - ... asked him why he did not worship the God of heaven. The old man told him that he worshipped the fire only, and acknowledged no other God. At which answer Abraham grew so zealously...
الصفحة 151 - My Son, let tears fall down over the dead, and begin to lament, as if thou hadst suffered great harm thyself ; and then cover his body according to the custom, and neglect not his burial. Weep bitterly, and make great moan, and use lamentation, as he is worthy, and that a day or two, lest thou be evil spoken of : and then comfort thyself for thy heaviness.
الصفحة 38 - ... the sagacity of a prophet, the reason of an angel, and the piety of a saint; he had devotion enough for a cloister, learning enough for a university, and wit enough for a college of virtuosi ; and had his parts and endowments been parcelled out among his clergy whom he left behind him, it would perhaps have made one of the best dioceses in the world.
الصفحة 145 - I can walk in my neighbour's pleasant fields, and see the varieties of natural beauties, and delight in all that in which God delights, that is, in virtue and wisdom, in the whole creation, and in God himself. And he that hath so many causes of joy and so great, is very much in love with sorrow and peevishness, who loses all these pleasures, and chooses to sit down upon his little handful of thorns.

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