The Christian Contemplated in a Course of Lectures: Delivered in Argyle Chapel, BathLincoln & Edmands, 1830 - 432 pages |
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Page vii
... evil spoken of . To be strenuous for evangelical preaching is commendable ; but they view the desideratum in too confined an import . They think it , if not improper , yet needless , for a minister to in- culcate many things which he ...
... evil spoken of . To be strenuous for evangelical preaching is commendable ; but they view the desideratum in too confined an import . They think it , if not improper , yet needless , for a minister to in- culcate many things which he ...
Page xvi
... evil , danger , misery , that he does not strike ? " Who hath wo ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions ? who hath babbling ? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine , they that go ...
... evil , danger , misery , that he does not strike ? " Who hath wo ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions ? who hath babbling ? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine , they that go ...
Page xix
... evil thereof . " But the same authority says elsewhere- " Go to the ant , thou sluggard ; consider her ways , and be wise : which having no guide , overseer , or ruler , provideth her meat in the summer , and gathereth her food in the ...
... evil thereof . " But the same authority says elsewhere- " Go to the ant , thou sluggard ; consider her ways , and be wise : which having no guide , overseer , or ruler , provideth her meat in the summer , and gathereth her food in the ...
Page 37
... evil , and hideth himself ; but the simple pass on , and are punished ! " My dear hearers . You admire one and another of your fellow creatures , and think how happy you should feel if you could make their advantages your own . And what ...
... evil , and hideth himself ; but the simple pass on , and are punished ! " My dear hearers . You admire one and another of your fellow creatures , and think how happy you should feel if you could make their advantages your own . And what ...
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... Evil communications corrupt good manners . " But while a companion of fools shall be destroyed , he that walketh with wise men , shall be wise . " We soon assume the manners , and imbibe the spirit of those with whom we are familiar ...
... Evil communications corrupt good manners . " But while a companion of fools shall be destroyed , he that walketh with wise men , shall be wise . " We soon assume the manners , and imbibe the spirit of those with whom we are familiar ...
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Page 93 - And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake.
Page 88 - Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant ; even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer...
Page 96 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
Page 239 - In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite, for a possession of a burying-place. (There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife ; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife ; and there I buried Leah.) The purchase of the field, and of the cave that is therein, was from the children of Heth.
Page 238 - For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life : 9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead...
Page 175 - I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall' be turned; for thou art the Lord my God.
Page 138 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and , behold , all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Page 234 - When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
Page 37 - And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Page 108 - Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work and eat their own bread.