Memoirs of the Life, Character, and Writings of Sir Matthew Hale ...

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Pagina 269 - we enter into the city, the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: if we sit still here, we die also. Now, therefore, let us fall into the host of the Assyrians: if they save us alive, we shall live ; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
Pagina 367 - is its best constituent; which begins, when first we look, with the eye of faith, on Him whom we ' have pierced," and can terminate only, when He shall cease ' to be GLORIFIED in his saints, and admired in all them that
Pagina xvii - stand upon the sea, and upon the earth, and lift up his hand to heaven, and sware by Him that liveth for ever and ever, that there should be time no longer.
Pagina 324 - He often said, that the true grounds and reasons of law were so well delivered in the Digests, that a man could never understand law, as a science, so well, as by seeking it there; and, therefore, lamented much that the Roman law, was so little studied in England.
Pagina 14 - reformation of religion in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, according to the word of God, and the example of the best reformed churches.
Pagina 273 - the never-to-be-forgotten Sir Matthew Hale; whose faith in Christianity is an exalted commentary upon its truth and reason, and whose life was a glorious example of its fruits ; whose justice, drawn from the pure fountain of the Christian Dispensation, will be, in all ages,
Pagina 87 - XVII. To charge my servants : 1st, not to interpose in any business whatsoever: 2d, not to take more than their known fees: 3d, not to give any undue precedence to causes: 4th, not to recommend counsel. "XVIII. To be short and sparing at meals, that I may be the fitter for business.
Pagina 91 - of the wise man—" Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them,
Pagina 243 - — " Where the bright seraphim, in burning row, Their loud up-lifted angel-trumpets blow, And the cherubic host in thousand quires Touch their immortal harps of golden wires
Pagina 104 - strictly to observe the evidence, and implored the great God of heaven to direct their hearts in so weighty a matter ; for to condemn the innocent, and to let the guilty go free, were both " an abomination to the Lord.

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