Sermons Upon the Following Subjects: The Natural Advantages of Men for Attaining to the Knowledge and Practice of Religion ...A. Millar, 1750 |
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... Chrift has abounded fo much towards Men , as to dif- charge them from all Covenants and Bonds , and to leave them at liberty to live just as they please : Befides that the direct contrary of this must be moft evident to every one that ...
... Chrift has abounded fo much towards Men , as to dif- charge them from all Covenants and Bonds , and to leave them at liberty to live just as they please : Befides that the direct contrary of this must be moft evident to every one that ...
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... Chrift or the Gospel : It might , perhaps , have done well enough , according to them , for a Heathen Philofopher to have spent his time in explain- ing and recommending the feveral parts of Moral Virtue to his Scholars ; but this ...
... Chrift or the Gospel : It might , perhaps , have done well enough , according to them , for a Heathen Philofopher to have spent his time in explain- ing and recommending the feveral parts of Moral Virtue to his Scholars ; but this ...
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... Chrift ? It is indeed certain , that the Apostles were at a great deal of pains to convince the World , that Jefus was really the Meffiah and Son of God , as he gave out himself to be , and to open the true Design of his death , and to ...
... Chrift ? It is indeed certain , that the Apostles were at a great deal of pains to convince the World , that Jefus was really the Meffiah and Son of God , as he gave out himself to be , and to open the true Design of his death , and to ...
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... Chrift , or to III . practise those Moral Virtues which are requir- ed by his Religion , which are indeed the Sum and Substance , the Aim and End of all true Religion . Let no Man therefore think meanly of Morality or despise the ...
... Chrift , or to III . practise those Moral Virtues which are requir- ed by his Religion , which are indeed the Sum and Substance , the Aim and End of all true Religion . Let no Man therefore think meanly of Morality or despise the ...
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... Chrift in Love . Only as to a certain Pro- portion of Time , which is in general to be fet apart for the Exercises of Religion and the Worship of God : As we are told in the facred Hiftory , that God from the Begin- ning confecrated one ...
... Chrift in Love . Only as to a certain Pro- portion of Time , which is in general to be fet apart for the Exercises of Religion and the Worship of God : As we are told in the facred Hiftory , that God from the Begin- ning confecrated one ...
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Page 84 - Bring no more vain oblations ; incense is an abomination unto me, the new moons and Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Page 51 - Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches : but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth Me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth : for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.
Page 84 - And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Page vi - But woe unto you, Pharisees ! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Page 84 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me ? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
Page 316 - For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward ; how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him...
Page 242 - But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
Page 371 - God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; by pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left...
Page 234 - To be steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as we know that our labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Page 85 - Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, And bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, With calves of a year old ? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, Or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...