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... continual Watchfulness , and to do every Thing we do as in his Sight , and with a Regard to his Prefence and Approbation . To confider that God is ever present , yieldeth great Comfort and Encourage- ment to good Men , and is one of the ...
... continual Watchfulness , and to do every Thing we do as in his Sight , and with a Regard to his Prefence and Approbation . To confider that God is ever present , yieldeth great Comfort and Encourage- ment to good Men , and is one of the ...
Page 73
... Difpofition , it will purify our Souls from every base vile Affection ; it will caufe us to delight ourselves in him , and to make it our earneft and continual Care and • and Endeavour to please and serve him , and to DISCOURSE III . 73.
... Difpofition , it will purify our Souls from every base vile Affection ; it will caufe us to delight ourselves in him , and to make it our earneft and continual Care and • and Endeavour to please and serve him , and to DISCOURSE III . 73.
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... continual Dependence , we ought to offer up our humble Prayers and Suppli- cations for all the good Things we stand in need of , and our grateful Acknowledg- ments and Thanksgivings for all the Mer- cies we enjoy ; and we muft , as far ...
... continual Dependence , we ought to offer up our humble Prayers and Suppli- cations for all the good Things we stand in need of , and our grateful Acknowledg- ments and Thanksgivings for all the Mer- cies we enjoy ; and we muft , as far ...
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... continual Succeffion , but not to that most stable and unchange- able Being . He is indeed in Scripture called the Antient of Days , and Years are fometimes afcribed to him ; but we are not to take these Things strictly and literally ...
... continual Succeffion , but not to that most stable and unchange- able Being . He is indeed in Scripture called the Antient of Days , and Years are fometimes afcribed to him ; but we are not to take these Things strictly and literally ...
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... continual Succeffion , form a just Idea of an infinite , unfucceffive Du- ration ? We can conceive of it no other- wife than as a Series of Days and Years fol- lowing one another ; and yet there is no proper Succeffion of Days and Years ...
... continual Succeffion , form a just Idea of an infinite , unfucceffive Du- ration ? We can conceive of it no other- wife than as a Series of Days and Years fol- lowing one another ; and yet there is no proper Succeffion of Days and Years ...
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Page 245 - In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Page 296 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it ; if it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
Page 431 - Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Page 181 - Hosts, is his name, great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men, to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings...
Page 169 - Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another ; and the Lord hearkened, and heard it : and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.
Page 342 - Lord of lords ; who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto ; whom no man hath seen, nor can see : to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
Page 98 - Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in the LORD his God...
Page 46 - Remember the former things of old: For I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times the things that are not yet done, Saying, My counsel shall stand, And I will do all my pleasure...
Page 171 - The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked : who can know it ? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Page 159 - Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.