Practical Discourses Upon the Lord's Prayer: Preach'd Before the Honourable Society of Lincoln's-InnW. Bowyer, 1717 - 248 pages |
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... fall fhort in the folidity of their reasonings , ( though much might be faid in their vindication even upon this head , ) yet I am fo unfashionable as to think , that they in their moral precepts exceed any writings of the moderns . I ...
... fall fhort in the folidity of their reasonings , ( though much might be faid in their vindication even upon this head , ) yet I am fo unfashionable as to think , that they in their moral precepts exceed any writings of the moderns . I ...
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... fall and the univerfal depra- vation that follow'd , men had withdrawn their obedience from their Maker , and of creatures and fubjects were become rebels ; God could not be faid to be King of those who disown'd his authority , and ...
... fall and the univerfal depra- vation that follow'd , men had withdrawn their obedience from their Maker , and of creatures and fubjects were become rebels ; God could not be faid to be King of those who disown'd his authority , and ...
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... fall down before him , all nations shall do him service . But very little of this hath been hitherto ac- complish'd in the Chriftian Church , and the state of it hath as yet bore no proportion to the extent of God's promises , or the ...
... fall down before him , all nations shall do him service . But very little of this hath been hitherto ac- complish'd in the Chriftian Church , and the state of it hath as yet bore no proportion to the extent of God's promises , or the ...
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... falling away will be fuch as hath not been from the beginning of the World , the efficacy of God's Spirit will be both more neceffary , and more vifible in those who go through it . f The apprehenfion of this perfecution was fo great in ...
... falling away will be fuch as hath not been from the beginning of the World , the efficacy of God's Spirit will be both more neceffary , and more vifible in those who go through it . f The apprehenfion of this perfecution was fo great in ...
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... fall very short of that King- dom which is promis'd them . Their virtue cannot have a fufficient reward in this World , when their greatest merit is to expect none in it ; and the pleasures of all kinds here must be a lean recompence to ...
... fall very short of that King- dom which is promis'd them . Their virtue cannot have a fufficient reward in this World , when their greatest merit is to expect none in it ; and the pleasures of all kinds here must be a lean recompence to ...
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Page 148 - Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant." But he knoweth not that the dead are there ; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
Page 216 - Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts : and then shall every man have praise of God.
Page 239 - Brother, fear not; greater is he that is in us, than he that is in the world.
Page 239 - Thou shalt tread upon the lion and the adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
Page 113 - Ghoft, whom the Father will fend in my name, he fhall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatfoever I have faid unto you.
Page 68 - Thus saith the Lord of Hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.
Page 85 - Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day ? or shall a nation be born at once ? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
Page 73 - A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will 1 put within you : and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
Page 166 - And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life : how much more now may this Benjamite do it ? let him alone, and let him curse ; for the LORD hath bidden him. It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.
Page 213 - But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner: with such an one no not to eat.