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... religion , sober counsels and the voice of God , experience of wise men and the sighings and intolerable accents of perishing or returning sinners , dig it down , and sow salt in the foundations , that they may never spring up in the ...
... religion , sober counsels and the voice of God , experience of wise men and the sighings and intolerable accents of perishing or returning sinners , dig it down , and sow salt in the foundations , that they may never spring up in the ...
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... religion , a lust before heaven , moments before eternity , money above God himself ; that a man's felicity consists in that which a beast enjoys ; that a little in present , uncertain , fallible possession , is better than the certain ...
... religion , a lust before heaven , moments before eternity , money above God himself ; that a man's felicity consists in that which a beast enjoys ; that a little in present , uncertain , fallible possession , is better than the certain ...
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... religion , and themselves at last , for want of understanding ; and all the wit and discourses by which sin creeps in , are but φροντίδων βουλεύματα , γλώσσης τε KóμTO , " frauds of the tongue , and consultations of care : " but in the ...
... religion , and themselves at last , for want of understanding ; and all the wit and discourses by which sin creeps in , are but φροντίδων βουλεύματα , γλώσσης τε KóμTO , " frauds of the tongue , and consultations of care : " but in the ...
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... religion , and the man knows all this , and believes it , and prays against his sin , and hates himself for it , and curses the actions of it ; yet oppose against all this but a fable or a merry story , a proverb or a silly saying , the ...
... religion , and the man knows all this , and believes it , and prays against his sin , and hates himself for it , and curses the actions of it ; yet oppose against all this but a fable or a merry story , a proverb or a silly saying , the ...
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... religion , to laugh at severity , to deride sober counsels , to flee from repentance , to resolve against it , to delight in sin without abatement of spirit or pur- poses for it is an intolerable thing for a man to be tormented in his ...
... religion , to laugh at severity , to deride sober counsels , to flee from repentance , to resolve against it , to delight in sin without abatement of spirit or pur- poses for it is an intolerable thing for a man to be tormented in his ...
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Page 268 - I have said, Ye are gods ; and all of you are children of the most high. 7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
Page 310 - For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God : and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God ? 18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Page 238 - Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us...
Page 160 - Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
Page 256 - Lord: looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God ; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled : lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
Page 215 - Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace : And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood ; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.
Page 244 - But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Page 206 - Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute...
Page 148 - But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Page 324 - 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. And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of Hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels ; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.