A sermon [on 2 Cor. ii, 16] preached at the consecration of ... W. Otter ... bishop of Chichester |
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... cause a ruler of the Church to faint under a sense of the shallowness and poverty of all sufficiency or might which is not from heaven . Prosperity and adversity , ignorance and know- ledge , light and darkness , yea , earth and hell ...
... cause a ruler of the Church to faint under a sense of the shallowness and poverty of all sufficiency or might which is not from heaven . Prosperity and adversity , ignorance and know- ledge , light and darkness , yea , earth and hell ...
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... cause flesh and heart to fail , -what would be his fittest meditations in that awful hour ? Would not the words of the Apostle rush into his soul- Who is sufficient for these things ? And what could so mightily support and comfort him ...
... cause flesh and heart to fail , -what would be his fittest meditations in that awful hour ? Would not the words of the Apostle rush into his soul- Who is sufficient for these things ? And what could so mightily support and comfort him ...
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... cause of Revealed Truth may be brought to its arbitrement . If , there- fore , the Servants of the Lord should faint or linger , now that the movement is becoming daily more im- petuous , it might perhaps be said unto them , If thou ...
... cause of Revealed Truth may be brought to its arbitrement . If , there- fore , the Servants of the Lord should faint or linger , now that the movement is becoming daily more im- petuous , it might perhaps be said unto them , If thou ...
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... cause of Truth , and of Meek- ness , and of Righteousness ' . And how shall this be done , except by them who have within them an excellent and a commanding spirit of know- ledge ? And whence is that spirit to come , but from the power ...
... cause of Truth , and of Meek- ness , and of Righteousness ' . And how shall this be done , except by them who have within them an excellent and a commanding spirit of know- ledge ? And whence is that spirit to come , but from the power ...
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... Cause of all things ' . And , if this be so , can it seem strange that God should , in more especial manner , be aiding and concurrent , when men are ap- pointed to duty and to power , which , fitly to sus- tain , might well nigh seem ...
... Cause of all things ' . And , if this be so , can it seem strange that God should , in more especial manner , be aiding and concurrent , when men are ap- pointed to duty and to power , which , fitly to sus- tain , might well nigh seem ...
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Page 1 - Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, "My way is hid from the Lord, And my judgment is passed over from my God"?
Page 27 - Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed ; but in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings...
Page 13 - And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars ; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth : for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Page 11 - God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands • neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things...
Page 9 - And I say unto you, make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness ; that when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
Page 22 - Therefore, also, now, saith The Lord, " Turn ye even to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning : and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto The Lord your God : for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and if great kindness, and repenteth Him of the evil.
Page 13 - And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Page 22 - The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
Page 15 - Are they ministers of Christ ? (I speak as a fool ;) I am more ; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one ; thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned ; thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep...