Letters, and Sketches of Sermons, Volume 3J. Belcher, 1813 - Sermons, American |
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... scripture is the best expositor of scripture ; and they will impress upon the serious and attentive mind , a veneration for the testimonies of divine truth . Placed in their own proper light , the sacred records will appear to be what ...
... scripture is the best expositor of scripture ; and they will impress upon the serious and attentive mind , a veneration for the testimonies of divine truth . Placed in their own proper light , the sacred records will appear to be what ...
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... scripture testimonies , will abundantly elucidate and confirm this fact . I am persuaded I shall not proceed far in this vast undertaking , but the hints I may collect , when the passages to which I shall refer , are fairly transcribed ...
... scripture testimonies , will abundantly elucidate and confirm this fact . I am persuaded I shall not proceed far in this vast undertaking , but the hints I may collect , when the passages to which I shall refer , are fairly transcribed ...
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... scripture testimonies . The people of God were forbidden to construct a garment of linen and woollen ; they should not mingle their own imperfect deeds with the immaculate robe of righteousness , wrought out for the saints by their ...
... scripture testimonies . The people of God were forbidden to construct a garment of linen and woollen ; they should not mingle their own imperfect deeds with the immaculate robe of righteousness , wrought out for the saints by their ...
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... scripture doctrine . Thus I once believed , and I once taught . But from the period when , by the grace of God , I was permitted to turn aside from the traditions and doctrines of men , from the moment when I beheld the figure of the ...
... scripture doctrine . Thus I once believed , and I once taught . But from the period when , by the grace of God , I was permitted to turn aside from the traditions and doctrines of men , from the moment when I beheld the figure of the ...
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... at least to relax in our tenacious adherence to these anti- quated testimonies ; it savoured too much of bigotry , to be thus wedded to a sentiment . When we say the scriptures declare thus , and so REFLECTIONS , & c . & c . 29.
... at least to relax in our tenacious adherence to these anti- quated testimonies ; it savoured too much of bigotry , to be thus wedded to a sentiment . When we say the scriptures declare thus , and so REFLECTIONS , & c . & c . 29.
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Page 101 - And to this agree the words of the prophets, as it is written ; After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down ; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up ; that the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.
Page 91 - God is not a man, that he should lie;. neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it ? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Page 211 - And he said, thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel : for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Page 83 - And many nations shall come, and say, "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his Ways, and we will walk in his paths:" for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Page 102 - By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son : that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore ; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies ; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
Page 282 - Let no man deceive you by any means : for that day shall not come, except there come A FALLING AWAY first, and that MAN OF SIN be revealed, the SON OF PERDITION...
Page 309 - Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
Page 82 - FOR the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices, which they offered year by year continually, make the comers thereunto perfect.
Page 116 - 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.
Page 101 - And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush : and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.