The Christian Contemplated in a Course of Lectures: Delivered in Argyle Chapel, BathLincoln & Edmands, 1830 - 432 pages |
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... honour , and immortality . By nothing can the attention of children be so effectually caught as by facts and narratives : and " men are but children of a larger growth . " What is the greater part of the Old Testament , but history ...
... honour , and immortality . By nothing can the attention of children be so effectually caught as by facts and narratives : and " men are but children of a larger growth . " What is the greater part of the Old Testament , but history ...
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... honour that cometh from God only . " - The learned ? But he is made wise unto salvation ; " he has an unction from the Holy One , and knoweth all things . ' The sons of heroism ? But , " He that is slow to anger is better than the ...
... honour that cometh from God only . " - The learned ? But he is made wise unto salvation ; " he has an unction from the Holy One , and knoweth all things . ' The sons of heroism ? But , " He that is slow to anger is better than the ...
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... honour , and glory , and blessing . " and Your preacher , therefore , is more than justified in a plan , the design of which he has already intimated , and which he now proceeds to lay before you . It is to hold up the CHRIS- TIAN to ...
... honour , and glory , and blessing . " and Your preacher , therefore , is more than justified in a plan , the design of which he has already intimated , and which he now proceeds to lay before you . It is to hold up the CHRIS- TIAN to ...
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... honoured father is to be found ? Would not this be a sufficient attraction ? " When shall I come , " says David , " and appear before God ? " He It includes his inspection . " And thy Father which seeth in secret . " He is not ...
... honoured father is to be found ? Would not this be a sufficient attraction ? " When shall I come , " says David , " and appear before God ? " He It includes his inspection . " And thy Father which seeth in secret . " He is not ...
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... honour that shall distinguish them in public , as if , instead of being urged by their necessities , they had been performing some very meritorious action ! The advantage of prayer is all our own : there can be nothing like desert in it ...
... honour that shall distinguish them in public , as if , instead of being urged by their necessities , they had been performing some very meritorious action ! The advantage of prayer is all our own : there can be nothing like desert in it ...
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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.