Let thy heart be more affected with what concerns the honour of God, and the profit and glory of the gospel, than with what are thy concernments as a man, with all earthly advantages.
At noon home, and there up to my wife, who is still ill, and supped with her, my mind being mighty full of trouble for the office and my concernments therein, and so to supper and talking with W.
Could sleep but little last night, for my concernments in this business of the victualling for Sir D.
I am glad our concernments are so equal; for I have the like favour to ask from Donna Theodosia.
I have a small estate lies thereabouts, and more concernments than one besides.
All your fervour In the concernments of a brother-in-law Reduc'd to a tame parley with our enemy?
I'm sure You found no Porcia there, my concernments In your discoveries are not very likely To discompose me.
But above all, the thoughts of the blessedness and glory of God himself, should overtop all the concernments of the creature with you.
Because the familiar way is most edifying; and to talk seriously with children and servants about the great concernments of their souls, doth commonly more move them than sermons or set speeches.
It is very amiable to see a family of such children and servants, that all take one another's concernments as their own, and are not selfish against each other.
But I speak of a naughty, selfish nature, that is little affected with any one's concernments but its own.
All this set together will satisfy a man, that hath any spiritual sense of the concernments of his own and others' souls.
Lastly and chiefly, forget not the concernments of your souls: remember how near you are to eternity, and what work you have to do for your salvation: forget not the presence of God, nor the approach of death.
The soul that would have pure and high delights, must abstract itself from the concernments of the flesh; and look on your body, as if it were the body of another, whose pain or pleasure you can choose whether you will feel.
When our speech is freer and sweeter about prosperity in the world, than about the concernments of God and our souls.
And how can a man love his soul, and not prefer it before the low concernments of his flesh?
Are the current opinions, and licensed guides of every country sufficient evidence and security to every man to venture his great concernments on; nay, his everlasting happiness or misery?
Eighthly, to this in likelihood the concernments of men, and the powers which guard justice, will forcibly bring him; and certainly his conscience will bind him thereto; God will indispensably exact it from him.
Your courage in your own concernments try; Brothers are things remote, while I am by.
Resign your castle to the king's command, And leave your love concernments in my hand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "concernments" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
