The Grounds & Occasions of the Contempt of the Clergy and Religion Enquired Into: In a Letter Written to R.L.R. Holt, 1685 - 160 pages |
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Page 159 - To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness ; 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works.
Page 107 - Sermons, hung up behind the door, with a few broken girts, two or three yards -of whipcord, and perhaps a saw and a hammer, to prevent dilapidations. " Now, what may not a Divine do, though but of ordinary parts, and unhappy education, with such learned helps and assistances as these ? No vice surely durst stand before him, nor heresie affront him.
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