Eight Sermons Preached Before the University of Cambridge at Great St. Mary's, in the Years M.DCCC.XXX & M.DCCC.XXXI.: To which is Added a Reprint of a Sermon Preached Before the University on Commencement Sunday, MDCCCXXVI.J. Smith, 1831 - 209 pages |
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... understanding to discuss , no difficulty for it to solve . But if I were to think only of the progress of your understanding , I would yet say , despise not these plain and practical exhor- tations . Be assured that the plain and ...
... understanding to discuss , no difficulty for it to solve . But if I were to think only of the progress of your understanding , I would yet say , despise not these plain and practical exhor- tations . Be assured that the plain and ...
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... understanding thereof and the per- fection of the fear of the Lord is wisdom ' . But it is of something better and higher than the triumphs of intellect , it is of the progress of the moral being which I now speak . And I beseech you to ...
... understanding thereof and the per- fection of the fear of the Lord is wisdom ' . But it is of something better and higher than the triumphs of intellect , it is of the progress of the moral being which I now speak . And I beseech you to ...
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... understanding is darkened , the conscience perverted , the man is sepa- rated from his God , his affections are debased , he becomes wholly depraved , and is lost to every purpose for which he was created . The poison steals silently on ...
... understanding is darkened , the conscience perverted , the man is sepa- rated from his God , his affections are debased , he becomes wholly depraved , and is lost to every purpose for which he was created . The poison steals silently on ...
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... respects deny the under- standing its proper exercise , and thus weaken and lower Sin will not allow the understanding to its powers . 1 Keble . D rest long on , or apply itself fully to , MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL FRAME . 49.
... respects deny the under- standing its proper exercise , and thus weaken and lower Sin will not allow the understanding to its powers . 1 Keble . D rest long on , or apply itself fully to , MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL FRAME . 49.
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... understanding the healthy exercise of its powers : ' God , ' in the awful language of the Apostle , ' sends such men a strong delusion that they should believe a lie . " But neither is this all . Sensuality not only prevents us from ...
... understanding the healthy exercise of its powers : ' God , ' in the awful language of the Apostle , ' sends such men a strong delusion that they should believe a lie . " But neither is this all . Sensuality not only prevents us from ...
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Page 136 - For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected : for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
Page 109 - Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love Me, he will keep My words : And My Father will love him, and We will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
Page 118 - O GOD, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.
Page 58 - Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.
Page 57 - Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
Page 155 - I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh ; when your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind ; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me...
Page 146 - Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Page 119 - My soul shall be satisfied, even as it were with marrow and fatness : when my mouth praiseth thee with joyful lips. 7 Have I not remembered thee in my bed : and thought upon thee when I was waking ? 8 Because thou hast been my helper : therefore under the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.