| James Freeman Clarke - 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 454
...reference to his pleasures : — " Would you judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, tnke this rule : Whatever weakens your reason, impairs...conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off your relish for spiritual things, — in short, which increases the strength and authority of your... | |
| James Freeman Clarke - 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 470
...the lawfulness or unlawfulness of (pleasure, take this rule : Whatever weakens your reason, im) pairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense .;of God, or takes off your relish for spiritual things, — in short, iwhich increases the strength and authority of your... | |
| William Stickney - 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 466
...own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then he false to any man." "Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your views of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things — in short, whatever increases the authority... | |
| Anna Davis Hallowell - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 608
...mother, to enable him to judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, which is as follows : " Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness...sin to you, however innocent it may be in itself." Cannot you enlightened ones set us a good example by making some improvement in the Discipline relative... | |
| Fortunate men - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 192
...— TILLOTSON. Pleasure, A Test of. Would you judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule : whatever weakens your reason, impairs...strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you, however innocent it may be in itself. — MRS. WESLEY. 116 Pleasure and Business. A... | |
| 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 568
...doctrine? CXVIII. .4 mother's rule for self-indulgence. The mother of John Wesley said to her son: " Whatever weakens your reason impairs the tenderness...of your body over your mind, that thing is sin to yon, however innocent it may be in itself." CXIX. A Christian's Epitaph. "And they laid the pilgrim... | |
| Christian - 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 180
...immortal flowers in human needs." " Would you judge of the lawfulness, or unlawfulness of pleasure ? take this rule : whatever weakens your reason, impairs...God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things, — that thing is sin to you, however innocent it may be in itself." — Mrs. Wesley. " Let none doubt... | |
| James Russell Miller - 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 138
...our heart-life. Some one has given this true test, whose application should be wide as life itself: "Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your view of God or takes off the relish of spiritual things—in short, whatever increases the authority... | |
| Eliza Clarke - 1886 - عدد الصفحات: 256
...you judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure ; of the innocence or malignity of actions ? Take this rule : whatever weakens your reason, impairs...sin to you, however innocent it may be in itself. And so on the contrary. " 'Tis stupid to say nothing is an affliction to a good man. That is an affliction... | |
| Eliza Clarke - 1886 - عدد الصفحات: 332
...you judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure ; of the innocence or malignity of actions ? Take this rule : whatever weakens your reason, impairs...sin to you, however innocent it may be in itself. And so on the contrary. 'T is stupid to say nothing is an affliction to a good man. That is an affliction... | |
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