Philip Doddridge, His Life and Labours: A Centenary MemorialJackson and Walford, 1851 - 257 páginas |
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... inspiring in some cases , -of reviving in others , -that beautiful , earnest , and practical piety of which Doddridge was such an illustrious example . Having been favoured with the use of un- published letters iv ADVERTISEMENT .
... inspiring in some cases , -of reviving in others , -that beautiful , earnest , and practical piety of which Doddridge was such an illustrious example . Having been favoured with the use of un- published letters iv ADVERTISEMENT .
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... letters and documents , the author hopes he has succeeded in obtaining some few original illustrations of Doddridge's life and history , in addition to those already so largely supplied in his Memoirs and published Cor- respondence . To ...
... letters and documents , the author hopes he has succeeded in obtaining some few original illustrations of Doddridge's life and history , in addition to those already so largely supplied in his Memoirs and published Cor- respondence . To ...
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... letters both from Mr. James , and several others . These persons promised in the name of the church , that if Mr. Mills would come , the church would comply with what he desired . This importunity and promise did very hardly prevail ...
... letters both from Mr. James , and several others . These persons promised in the name of the church , that if Mr. Mills would come , the church would comply with what he desired . This importunity and promise did very hardly prevail ...
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... a great degree . His mother was a woman of singular good sense and piety . Like the mother of Alfred , who enticed her boy to the study of letters by a exhibiting before him the pictures of an illu- minated DODDRIDGE'S EARLY DAYS . 31.
... a great degree . His mother was a woman of singular good sense and piety . Like the mother of Alfred , who enticed her boy to the study of letters by a exhibiting before him the pictures of an illu- minated DODDRIDGE'S EARLY DAYS . 31.
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... ejected ministers . Speaking of this ancestor , in a letter to a friend , he observes : - " He had a family of ten children unprovided for ; but he quitted his D living , which was worth to him about two hundred DODDRIDGE'S EARLY DAYS . 33.
... ejected ministers . Speaking of this ancestor , in a letter to a friend , he observes : - " He had a family of ten children unprovided for ; but he quitted his D living , which was worth to him about two hundred DODDRIDGE'S EARLY DAYS . 33.
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Página 139 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Página 141 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use.
Página 87 - Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act, - act in the living Present! Heart within, and God o'erhead! Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.
Página 223 - ... truth, as the students were about equally divided upon every question of much importance, such as Liberty and Necessity, the Sleep of the soul, and all the articles of theological orthodoxy and heresy ; in consequence of which all these topics were the subject of continual discussion. Our tutors also were of different opinions; Dr. Ashworth taking the orthodox side of every question, and Mr. Clark, the sub-tutor, that of heresy, though always with the greatest modesty.
Página 83 - Ye golden lamps of heaven, farewell, with all your feeble light ! Farewell, thou ever-changing moon, pale empress of the night ! -'And- thou, refulgent orb of day, in brighter flames arrayed, My soul...
Página 75 - This is a true saying. If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach...
Página 123 - Oh, sirs ! as for the waters which are drawn from these springs, how sweetly soever they may taste to a curious mind that thirsts for them, or to an ambitious mind which thirsts for the...
Página 175 - ... poor, the sick ; pleasant to write letters of necessary business by which any good can be done ; pleasant to go out and preach the gospel to poor souls, of which some are thirsting for it, and others dying without it; pleasant in the week-day to think how near another Sabbath is ; but, oh ! much, much more pleasant, to think how near eternity is, and how short the journey through this wilderness, and that it is but a step from earth to heaven.
Página 188 - When death o'er nature shall prevail, And all its powers of language fail, Joy through my swimming eyes shall break, And mean the thanks I cannot speak.
Página 83 - The Father of eternal light Shall there his beams display ; Nor shall one moment's darkness mix With that unvaried day.