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... tion as is here described . The pulpit , in Chris- tian times the best ally of truth and virtue , found no place beside the blood - stained altars of superstition . Heathenism had its troops of sacrificers , its flamens , its augurs ...
... tion as is here described . The pulpit , in Chris- tian times the best ally of truth and virtue , found no place beside the blood - stained altars of superstition . Heathenism had its troops of sacrificers , its flamens , its augurs ...
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... tion among the philosophers of the Porch or the Lyceum . From Sherlock , Tillotson , Atterbury , and Jortin , the public taste sank rapidly to a heart- less acquiescence in the elegant inanity of the school of Blair and his thousand ...
... tion among the philosophers of the Porch or the Lyceum . From Sherlock , Tillotson , Atterbury , and Jortin , the public taste sank rapidly to a heart- less acquiescence in the elegant inanity of the school of Blair and his thousand ...
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... the most accomplished , and certainly will be the most effective , master of Christian elo- quence , who can the most completely adapt the results of extensive learning and profound medita- tion to the xxvi INTRODUCTORY ESSAY .
... the most accomplished , and certainly will be the most effective , master of Christian elo- quence , who can the most completely adapt the results of extensive learning and profound medita- tion to the xxvi INTRODUCTORY ESSAY .
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Jeremy Taylor. results of extensive learning and profound medita- tion to the peculiarities of his age ; -who to a thorough acquaintance , not only with the doctrines of the Bible and the mind of individual man , but with the history of ...
Jeremy Taylor. results of extensive learning and profound medita- tion to the peculiarities of his age ; -who to a thorough acquaintance , not only with the doctrines of the Bible and the mind of individual man , but with the history of ...
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... tion became mercies to us , when God continued them to us , and restored them after they were forfeit . 2. But as a circle begins every where and ends no where , so do the mercies of God ; after all this huge progress , now it began ...
... tion became mercies to us , when God continued them to us , and restored them after they were forfeit . 2. But as a circle begins every where and ends no where , so do the mercies of God ; after all this huge progress , now it began ...
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Page 75 - Lord, according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue : whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises : that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Page 227 - 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 117 - This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Page 72 - 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 185 - 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 236 - Righteous art Thou, O Lord, when I plead with Thee : yet let me talk with Thee of Thy judgments : wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
Page 55 - 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 215 - God; who will render to every man according to his deeds: to them who, by patient continuance in well-doing, seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life; but unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath: tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doeth evil...
Page 276 - For a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment ; 'but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer.
Page 237 - 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.