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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: all things, may eftablifh his Mind in perfed Peace, and reft himfelf fecurely uponXlod. O Thou whofe very Eflence is Truth, unite me to thy felf in perfed Love The Variety of Subjeds tire and diftradmy Soul; in Thee alone I find the Sum of all my Wifhes and De- fires. Let all our Teachers be for ever Dumb, and this great Volume of the Creatures continue fhut to me, fo Thou vouchafe thy more immediate Information, and teach me thy felf alone. The better acquainted any Man is withhirnfelf, the more heconverfes with, and retires in his own Breaf t l and the lefs he wanders abroad, and dwells upon things without him, the more eXtenfive and fublime is his Knowledge, and the eafier attained; becaufe this Man receives immediate Illumination, and is direded byst Ray darted from Heaven into his Soul. A Mind iin- cere, and pure, and firm, is not diverted by Multiplicity of Objeds; for the Honour of God is its conftant Aim; and having but one End to purfue, it is inper- fed Peace and Unity with it felf, and does not divide its Thoughts with Vanity and Self-love. For what cart be a greater Hindrance than our own ambitious and ungovern'd Paffion? A truly good and pious Man fidt orders and difpofesallhis Bufmefs regularly, before he enters upon the Execution of any Defign: He fnffers no vicious Inclination to divert him, but makes every Undertaking fubmit to the Dilates of Reafon and Religion. The fharpeft as well as nobleft Conflid is that .wherein we labour to gain a Conqueft over ourfelves; and this fhould be our principal and conftant Care, to gee ground every Day, by bringing our Paffionsmore and more under, and becoming more mafterly Proficients in Virtue and Goodnefs. Nor may we fuppofe any fo exalted Degree of Virtue, that it fhould ceafe to be a State of Proficiency; for fuch ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217073820 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217073824 |
| Weight | 0.89 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 In |
| List Price | $20.03 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 270 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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