Sermons Preached to a Country Congregation: To which are Added a Few Hints for Sermons, Volume 4T. Cadeli, 1821 |
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... common sense . And thus the apostle distinguishes between the things , which God had revealed by the spirit ; and the act of com- paring spiritual things with spiritual . The one he calls declaring the testimony of God : the other was ...
... common sense . And thus the apostle distinguishes between the things , which God had revealed by the spirit ; and the act of com- paring spiritual things with spiritual . The one he calls declaring the testimony of God : the other was ...
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... man ; and God's arbitrary will can never run counter to his revealed will.- We act thus in common life . Suppose we look into a medical book for the remedy of some par- ticular " } ticular disorder ; and should there find it SERMON I. 13.
... man ; and God's arbitrary will can never run counter to his revealed will.- We act thus in common life . Suppose we look into a medical book for the remedy of some par- ticular " } ticular disorder ; and should there find it SERMON I. 13.
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... common people , who take their ideas of religion from what we tell them ; it is certainly a very awful thought , and should make us endeavour to keep as close as possible to the simplicity , that is in Christ . It is in vain to attempt ...
... common people , who take their ideas of religion from what we tell them ; it is certainly a very awful thought , and should make us endeavour to keep as close as possible to the simplicity , that is in Christ . It is in vain to attempt ...
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... common people are obliged to take our prescriptions , just as we please to prescribe , we should for that reason prescribe carelessly ; and without sufficiently consulting that book , from which alone we can procure the true ingredients ...
... common people are obliged to take our prescriptions , just as we please to prescribe , we should for that reason prescribe carelessly ; and without sufficiently consulting that book , from which alone we can procure the true ingredients ...
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... common people , on all religious subjects ; but especially on the sacra- ment of the Lord's supper . As nothing is more difficult than to eradicate old prejudices ; nothing would have been more easy than to have pre- vented their ...
... common people , on all religious subjects ; but especially on the sacra- ment of the Lord's supper . As nothing is more difficult than to eradicate old prejudices ; nothing would have been more easy than to have pre- vented their ...
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Page 246 - And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
Page 286 - Then charged He His disciples that they should tell no man that He was Jesus the Christ. From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto His disciples, how that He must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.
Page 147 - Be not deceived ; God is not mocked : for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption ; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Page 259 - He shall not strive, nor cry, neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets ; a bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench ; till he send forth judgment unto victory. And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.
Page 395 - For the Scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
Page 84 - Therefore take no thought, saying: What shall we eat? Or, what shall we drink? Or, wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek.) For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.
Page 58 - And in our deepest desertion, and in our most peculiar sorrows, we may rest assured, that " there hath no temptation taken " us " but such as is common to man ; but God is faithful, who will not suffer" us " to be tempted above that" we " are able ; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that " we
Page 152 - Then thought I to understand this : but it was too hard for me, Until I went into the sanctuary of God : then understood I the end of these men; Namely, how thou dost set them in slippery places : and castest them down, and destroyest them.
Page 172 - Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended : but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Page 201 - But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.