The Christian Contemplated in a Course of Lectures: Delivered in Argyle Chapel, BathLincoln & Edmands, 1830 - 432 pages |
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... pleasure and profit which he knows may be derived from those who cannot frame to pronounce ex- actly the Shibboleth of a spiritual tribe . He has always preferred to study religion , not in its abstractions , but in its subjects : not ...
... pleasure and profit which he knows may be derived from those who cannot frame to pronounce ex- actly the Shibboleth of a spiritual tribe . He has always preferred to study religion , not in its abstractions , but in its subjects : not ...
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... pleasure to the mind . Hume , in his Essay on Refinement and Simplicity in Style , comes soon to this conclusion : that it is better to err in the excess of simplicity , than in the excess of refinement ; the former extreme being more ...
... pleasure to the mind . Hume , in his Essay on Refinement and Simplicity in Style , comes soon to this conclusion : that it is better to err in the excess of simplicity , than in the excess of refinement ; the former extreme being more ...
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... pleasure ; and take no firm hold on the mind and feelings , especially of the young and the common people- " And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds . " General declamations and reflections do little in a po- pular audience . The ...
... pleasure ; and take no firm hold on the mind and feelings , especially of the young and the common people- " And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds . " General declamations and reflections do little in a po- pular audience . The ...
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... pleasure . Though you are seen of men , you are not seeking to be seen by them . It is possible to retire mentally , even in company ; and many an act of devotion is performed by the Christian with- out the formality of the exercise ...
... pleasure . Though you are seen of men , you are not seeking to be seen by them . It is possible to retire mentally , even in company ; and many an act of devotion is performed by the Christian with- out the formality of the exercise ...
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... pleasure , and such free and entire communion with God , as I have here : and I wonder that any can live prayerless , and de- prive themselves of the greatest privilege allowed to them . " If the twelve Apostles were living in your ...
... pleasure , and such free and entire communion with God , as I have here : and I wonder that any can live prayerless , and de- prive themselves of the greatest privilege allowed to them . " If the twelve Apostles were living in your ...
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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.