| Brian Hill - 1822 - 454 psl.
...And this will be said, however faithful, laborious, and diligent you * Excel, r. 17. may be in that state of life, to which it has pleased God to call you. Upon the whole then, a moderate degree of experience will prove to the sincere Christian, that, however... | |
| 1827 - 590 psl.
...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... | |
| William Dealtry - 1827 - 700 psl.
...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... | |
| 1831 - 548 psl.
...during the year that has just closed, bought any thing not only so useless, but so unsuitable to " that state of life to which it has pleased God to call you,'" as ear-rings ? Or have you purchased any thing in dress that is merely ornamental ? Have you, instead... | |
| Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1835 - 608 psl.
...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... | |
| Augustus William Hare - 1836 - 526 psl.
...parents or children, husbands or wives, — are you, in a word, more careful to do your duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call you, — than you were a year ago? If your life can shew none of these marks of progress, if the hour-hand... | |
| Edward Thompson - 1838 - 532 psl.
...in God; believe in the Saviour; pray for the assistance of the Holy Spirit, and do your duty in that state of life, to which it has pleased God to call you. "For this, I say, brethren, the time is short." SERMON IV. LUKE xv. 18—20. " I will arise, and go... | |
| James Beaven - 1841 - 170 psl.
...which you are? God. What must you do in that state ? My duty. If you endeavour to do your duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call you, will you be always trying to get above your station ? No: I shall be content with what God appoints... | |
| Francis Edward Paget - 1843 - 344 psl.
...mean that you are to shut yourself up, — to seclude yourself from discharging the duties of that state of life to which it has pleased God to call you, — to hinder your light from shining before men, — to fail to avail yourself of the advantages which... | |
| Henry Bristow Wilson - 1843 - 62 psl.
...from it, and you will be content thenceforward with God's help to begin again to do your duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call you. NOTES. Page 7. THIS view of Jerome's will be fully seen from the following extracts ; Comment. ad Gal.... | |
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