The Christian Contemplated in a Course of Lectures: Delivered in Argyle Chapel, BathLincoln & Edmands, 1830 - 432 pages |
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... reason , not only for the fre quency of the expression , but for the expression itself . The language is perfectly peculiar . There are indeed various relations and connections in life ; and some of our fellow - creatures are much ...
... reason , not only for the fre quency of the expression , but for the expression itself . The language is perfectly peculiar . There are indeed various relations and connections in life ; and some of our fellow - creatures are much ...
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... reason ; and it is even ne- cessary , to harmonize the testimonies of divine truth . Thus our Saviour says , " Every branch in me that beareth not fruit , he taketh away . If a man abide not in me , he is cast forth as a branch , and is ...
... reason ; and it is even ne- cessary , to harmonize the testimonies of divine truth . Thus our Saviour says , " Every branch in me that beareth not fruit , he taketh away . If a man abide not in me , he is cast forth as a branch , and is ...
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... reason that many of you read and hear of this state with such in- difference , that you make light of the invitation to enter it , and go your way , one to his farm and another to his merchan- dise ? You do not feel yourselves in the ...
... reason that many of you read and hear of this state with such in- difference , that you make light of the invitation to enter it , and go your way , one to his farm and another to his merchan- dise ? You do not feel yourselves in the ...
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... reason from the less to the greater . A man who feels the infinite importance attached to the soul and eternity , will always find it difficult to consider himself a child of God , and an heir of glory ; and will never cease saying ...
... reason from the less to the greater . A man who feels the infinite importance attached to the soul and eternity , will always find it difficult to consider himself a child of God , and an heir of glory ; and will never cease saying ...
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... REASONS WHICH SHOULD ENGAGE HIM TO ATTEMPT IT . III . TO ANSWER SOME OBJECTIONS TO THE DUTY . And , IV . TO CONCLUDE WITH SOME ANIMADVERSIONS AND ADMONITIONS RESPECTING IT . I. If it be asked , How the head of a family may BLESS HIS ...
... REASONS WHICH SHOULD ENGAGE HIM TO ATTEMPT IT . III . TO ANSWER SOME OBJECTIONS TO THE DUTY . And , IV . TO CONCLUDE WITH SOME ANIMADVERSIONS AND ADMONITIONS RESPECTING IT . I. If it be asked , How the head of a family may BLESS HIS ...
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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.