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... lead to a corresponding practice , if they were not counteracted by other desires , which are also necessary to a probationary state . This sense of moral rectitude is inherent more or less in all men , and is ever connected with the ...
... lead to a corresponding practice , if they were not counteracted by other desires , which are also necessary to a probationary state . This sense of moral rectitude is inherent more or less in all men , and is ever connected with the ...
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... leads . By contemplating the beau- ties of this holiness we are confirmed in the love of it ; and by repeated acts , proceeding from this love , and animated by the yet higher principle of love to God , we gradually acquire those habits ...
... leads . By contemplating the beau- ties of this holiness we are confirmed in the love of it ; and by repeated acts , proceeding from this love , and animated by the yet higher principle of love to God , we gradually acquire those habits ...
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... than the musings of insanity ? Why should his mind lead him to indulge those thoughts of God , which , if they are not connected with another state , C must must perplex him with endless difficulties , and plunge his SERMON I. 17.
... than the musings of insanity ? Why should his mind lead him to indulge those thoughts of God , which , if they are not connected with another state , C must must perplex him with endless difficulties , and plunge his SERMON I. 17.
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... leads us to seek our supreme good in a Being , who takes no other concern in us , than that of giving fertility to the earth to nourish a sensual and transient life , at the close of which he will remand remand us , without pity , to ...
... leads us to seek our supreme good in a Being , who takes no other concern in us , than that of giving fertility to the earth to nourish a sensual and transient life , at the close of which he will remand remand us , without pity , to ...
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... lead us to cherish the expectation that there will be a re - union beyond the grave ? By this prospect , so congenial both to the understanding and the heart , the spirit of a good man is solaced and animated under every deprivation ...
... lead us to cherish the expectation that there will be a re - union beyond the grave ? By this prospect , so congenial both to the understanding and the heart , the spirit of a good man is solaced and animated under every deprivation ...
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Page 345 - But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles : but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.
Page 169 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground ; yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Page 193 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord ' taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Page 225 - Will the Lord cast off for ever ? And will he be favourable no more ? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? Doth his promise fail for evermore ? Hath God forgotten to be gracious ? Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies...
Page 89 - Behold, I shew you a mystery ; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump ; for the trumpet shall sound ; and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is...
Page 226 - Will the LORD cast off for ever ? and will He be favourable no more? Is His mercy clean gone for ever ? doth His promise fail for evermore ? Hath God forgotten to be gracious ? hath He in anger shut up His tender mercies...
Page 327 - But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter, before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
Page 330 - And, when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how, that a good while ago, God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
Page xiii - Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? And I. said, "This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.
Page 169 - Man that is born of a woman Is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down : He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.