Husbandry Spiritualized: Or, The Heavenly Use of Earthly Things, in which Husbandmen are Directed to an Excellent Improvement of Their Common Employments. Whereunto are Added, Occasional Meditations Upon Birds, Beasts, Trees, Flowers, Etc. Also, the Touchstone of Sincerity ; And, Extracts from A Token for Mourners |
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... present case and similitude of the apostle . If an husbandman , upon the ordinary principles of reason , can wait for the harvest , shall not I wait for the coming of the Lord ? The day of refreshing ; the corn is precious to him , and ...
... present case and similitude of the apostle . If an husbandman , upon the ordinary principles of reason , can wait for the harvest , shall not I wait for the coming of the Lord ? The day of refreshing ; the corn is precious to him , and ...
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... present age , but for posterity . And that the husbandman may be pleased as well as profited , in perusing the labors of this author ; he hath , with singular aptness , and acuteness , contrived and con- tracted the sum and scope of ...
... present age , but for posterity . And that the husbandman may be pleased as well as profited , in perusing the labors of this author ; he hath , with singular aptness , and acuteness , contrived and con- tracted the sum and scope of ...
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... present pay , he therein sufficiently discovers his beast - like disposition . Ministers must be faithful in their master's work , and if men do not , God will reward them . For " he is not unrighteous to forget their work , and labor ...
... present pay , he therein sufficiently discovers his beast - like disposition . Ministers must be faithful in their master's work , and if men do not , God will reward them . For " he is not unrighteous to forget their work , and labor ...
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... present you with these five ensu- ing corollaries . THE FIRST COROLLARY . How great then are the dignities and privileges of the churches of Jesus Christ , whom he hath appropriated to him- self , above all the people of the earth , to ...
... present you with these five ensu- ing corollaries . THE FIRST COROLLARY . How great then are the dignities and privileges of the churches of Jesus Christ , whom he hath appropriated to him- self , above all the people of the earth , to ...
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... present them to you , as you find them in the following chapters . Read , consider , and apply ; and the Lord make you good husbandmen for your own souls . THE FIRST PART OF HUSBANDRY SPIRITUALIZED . CHAPTER I. UPON 42 THE PROEM .
... present them to you , as you find them in the following chapters . Read , consider , and apply ; and the Lord make you good husbandmen for your own souls . THE FIRST PART OF HUSBANDRY SPIRITUALIZED . CHAPTER I. UPON 42 THE PROEM .
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Page 335 - For the love of Christ constraineth us ; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead ; and that He died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him who died for them, and rose again.
Page 197 - I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire...
Page 225 - My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken ; the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Page 161 - Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of Man...
Page 368 - Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah ; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
Page 120 - Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: 2.
Page 282 - I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. "For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
Page 123 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD...
Page 114 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Page 123 - And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.