The Saints' Everlasting Rest; Or, A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Glory |
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... look for more from duty than God hath laid upon it ; and so much we may and must . 3. If I should quote all the scriptures that plainly prove this , I should transcribe a great part of the Bible : I will therefore only desire you to ...
... look for more from duty than God hath laid upon it ; and so much we may and must . 3. If I should quote all the scriptures that plainly prove this , I should transcribe a great part of the Bible : I will therefore only desire you to ...
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... look so long upon the Son of God , till thine eyes were dazzled with his astonishing glory ? and did not the splendour of it make all things below seem black and dark to thee ; when thou lookedst down again , especially in the days of ...
... look so long upon the Son of God , till thine eyes were dazzled with his astonishing glory ? and did not the splendour of it make all things below seem black and dark to thee ; when thou lookedst down again , especially in the days of ...
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... look behind him and before him : and to compare past with present things must needs raise in the blessed soul an inconceivable sense of its condition . To stand on that mount , whence we can see the wilder- ness and Canaan both at once ...
... look behind him and before him : and to compare past with present things must needs raise in the blessed soul an inconceivable sense of its condition . To stand on that mount , whence we can see the wilder- ness and Canaan both at once ...
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... look back on the sin committed , the grace refused , Christ neglected , and time lost ; so will the memory of the saints for ever promote their joys . But O the full , the near , the sweet enjoyment , is that of the affections , love ...
... look back on the sin committed , the grace refused , Christ neglected , and time lost ; so will the memory of the saints for ever promote their joys . But O the full , the near , the sweet enjoyment , is that of the affections , love ...
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... look back upon all this ; I say to thee as the angel to John , " What hast thou seen ? " Or if yet thou perceive not , draw nearer , come up higher , Come and see : dost thou fear thou hast been all this while in a dream ? Why , These ...
... look back upon all this ; I say to thee as the angel to John , " What hast thou seen ? " Or if yet thou perceive not , draw nearer , come up higher , Come and see : dost thou fear thou hast been all this while in a dream ? Why , These ...
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Page 294 - There shall be no more thence an infant of days, Nor an old man that hath not filled his days: For the child shall die an hundred years old ; But the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
Page 32 - I charge thee therefore, before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing, and his kingdom ; preach the word, be instant in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine.
Page 143 - For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words : for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Page 178 - And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; 13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake.
Page 251 - From lightning and tempest ; from plague, pestilence, and famine ; from battle and murder, and from sudden death, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 178 - Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves : for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Page 19 - And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true ; and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Page 35 - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat ? Nevertheless we.
Page 34 - Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince, all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Page 53 - Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler ; the snare is broken, and we are delivered.