Chapter
1 I | I.~Ye Servants of God, about to draw near to God.
2 I | God, about to draw near to God. that you may make solemn
3 I | no offence is offered to God, in any human enjoyment,
4 I | true obedience to the true God. There are some who imagine
5 I | pleasures so great, to die for God! It is not as they say;
6 II | we teach, were created by God, and given to man for his
7 II | thought that what exists by God's own creative will is either
8 II | pillars, are things of God, who has given these various
9 II | scenes are enacted under God's own heaven. How skilful
10 II | herself is teacher of it--that God is the Maker of the universe,
11 II | will or the adversary of a God you do not know. We must
12 II | come from the works of God. Take, for instance, murder,
13 II | all equally creatures of God. Has the Creator, withal,
14 II | kill." Moreover, who but God, the Maker of the world,
15 II | What is there offensive to God which is not God's? But
16 II | offensive to God which is not God's? But in offending Him,
17 II | injustice? I think not; for if God, as the righteous ex-actor
18 II | man, the work and image of God, the possessor of the world,
19 II | might make man guilty in God's eyes, and set up his own
20 III | and in words imposed upon God's servants. Well, we never
21 III | them general truth. When God admonishes the Israelites
22 V | consecrated them to Consus, the god, as they will have it, of
23 V | themselves, I may not say by God. This goes also to taint
24 VII | whatever is offensive to God. Though there be few images
25 VIII | religion by the servant of God, if he has only some honest
26 VIII | however, that we lapse from God, but by touching and tainting
27 IX | passed from the service of God into the employment of demons.
28 IX | every kind is condemned by God, that form of it surely
29 XI | real temple--I mean of the god whose festivals it celebrates.
30 XIII | for we cannot partake of God's feast and the feast of
31 XIII | that of our bodily organs, God has a right to claim from
32 XV | show with the things of God. God has enjoined us to
33 XV | with the things of God. God has enjoined us to deal
34 XV | world; for the world is God's, but the worldly is the
35 XVI | than a causeless hatred? God certainly forbids us to
36 XVI | us to love our enemies. God forbids us to curse, though
37 XVI | elsewhere in the saints of God, they will be seemly in
38 XVII | the highest favour of its god is the vileness which the
39 XVII | idle word, is condemned by God. Why, in the same way, is
40 XVII | as being foolishness in God's eyes, our duty is plain
41 XVIII| than the disfiguration of God's own image. You will never
42 XX | and where the servants of God are directly forbidden to
43 XX | The sun," said he, "nay, God Himself, looks down from
44 XX | without being defiled. As for God, would that all crimes were
45 XX | tiers and the curtains, too, God has eyes? Never and nowhere
46 XX | that free from blame which God ever condemns; never and
47 XX | all things the truth of God is immutable.~
48 XXI | for they are not taught of God, hold a thing evil and good
49 XXIII| themselves to these arts! Will God have any pleasure in the
50 XXIII| according to the mind of God, who forbids the making
51 XXIII| his ears, at his creation! God, too, gave him eyes for
52 XXIV | peculiar to the shows has God's approval, or without that
53 XXIV | approval is becoming in God's servants? If we have succeeded
54 XXIV | things (for all that is not God's, or is not pleasing in
55 XXV | where there is nothing of God, will one be thinking of
56 XXV | moved by compassion? May God avert from His people any
57 XXV | monstrous it is to go from God's church to the devil's—
58 XXV | to raise your hands to God, and then to weary them
59 XXV | forever" to any one else but God and Christ!~
60 XXVII| account than that there God's name is blasphemed--that
61 XXVII| service of Satan against God? Shall you not then shun
62 XXVII| which he prepares, things of God most pleasant and most acceptable.
63 XXIX | and exquisite pleasures God has bestowed upon you? For
64 XXIX | delightful than to have God the Father and our Lord
65 XXIX | divine revealings--to live to God? These are the pleasures,
66 XXIX | churches, be startled at God's signal, be roused up at
67 XXX | taught their followers that God had no concern in ought
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