Sermons on the Spiritual Comfort and Assurance Attainable by Obedience and Conformity to the Lord Jesus Christ ...J.G. & F. Rivington, 1832 - 200 pages |
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... strength , labouring to draw water from these broken cisterns instead of from the wells of salvation . It would have been better for many of us if we had never learned to read at all . Scarcely any amusement gives the mind a greater ...
... strength , labouring to draw water from these broken cisterns instead of from the wells of salvation . It would have been better for many of us if we had never learned to read at all . Scarcely any amusement gives the mind a greater ...
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... strength , ) may receive both solace and advantage from it whether as ministers or as men ; -it is not a passive ... strength to strength , and from grace to grace ; paving the way for many gifts and graces , such as command of thought ...
... strength , ) may receive both solace and advantage from it whether as ministers or as men ; -it is not a passive ... strength to strength , and from grace to grace ; paving the way for many gifts and graces , such as command of thought ...
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... strength , early and late , in fasting and in prayer , for one single week in cultivating his memory without ample success . On the other hand there is a plain proof of the contrary in the case of every school boy or plough boy who can ...
... strength , early and late , in fasting and in prayer , for one single week in cultivating his memory without ample success . On the other hand there is a plain proof of the contrary in the case of every school boy or plough boy who can ...
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... strength to any useful purpose if governed by a Delilah , consigned to idleness in a prison , or compelled to toil in useless drudgery ? We exhaust the strength of our memory in the degrading service of an idle imagination , suffer it ...
... strength to any useful purpose if governed by a Delilah , consigned to idleness in a prison , or compelled to toil in useless drudgery ? We exhaust the strength of our memory in the degrading service of an idle imagination , suffer it ...
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... strength to a degree of which he had no idea before , and his mind pro- portionably impressed with the importance of reli- gion , I will confess memory , instead of being a means of joyfully walking with God in solitude , to be indeed ...
... strength to a degree of which he had no idea before , and his mind pro- portionably impressed with the importance of reli- gion , I will confess memory , instead of being a means of joyfully walking with God in solitude , to be indeed ...
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Page 136 - And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Page 121 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 48 - Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean ; from all your filthiness, and from all your idols will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you ; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them.
Page 15 - As the godly consideration of predestination, and our election in Christ is full of sweet, pleasant, and unspeakable comfort to godly persons, and such as feel in themselves the working of the spirit of Christ mortifying the works of the flesh, and their earthly members, and drawing up their mind to high and heavenly things...
Page 53 - Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens and stretched them out ; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein...
Page 52 - And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, I will lead them in paths that they have not known : I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake . them.
Page 53 - I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, 'Behold me, behold me/ unto a nation that was not called by my name.
Page 180 - And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
Page 190 - I, even I. am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
Page 182 - Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any : even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.