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... to have lopped off every thing as superfluous , which did not immediately tend to make his readers better , or rather to have had a heart so entirely possessed with this desire , that notbing else ever offered itself to bis view .
... to have lopped off every thing as superfluous , which did not immediately tend to make his readers better , or rather to have had a heart so entirely possessed with this desire , that notbing else ever offered itself to bis view .
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Let us consider , 1. the matter of the apostle's desire for them , grace and peace ; 2. the measure of it , that it may be multiplied . i . The matter of the apostle's desire , grace . We need not make a noise with the many school ...
Let us consider , 1. the matter of the apostle's desire for them , grace and peace ; 2. the measure of it , that it may be multiplied . i . The matter of the apostle's desire , grace . We need not make a noise with the many school ...
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So then to desire grace to be multiplied to them is to wish to them the living spring of it , that love which cannot be ... And this is that wbich should be the top and sum of Christian desires — to have or want any other thing ...
So then to desire grace to be multiplied to them is to wish to them the living spring of it , that love which cannot be ... And this is that wbich should be the top and sum of Christian desires — to have or want any other thing ...
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The blessing which the apostle here joins with grace , was with the Jews of so large a sense , as to comprehend all that they could desire ; when they wished Peace , they meant all kind of ...
The blessing which the apostle here joins with grace , was with the Jews of so large a sense , as to comprehend all that they could desire ; when they wished Peace , they meant all kind of ...
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It is natural to men to desire their own peace , the quietuess and contentment of their minds : but most men miss the way to it , and therefore find it not ; for there is no way to ...
It is natural to men to desire their own peace , the quietuess and contentment of their minds : but most men miss the way to it , and therefore find it not ; for there is no way to ...
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Page 328 - For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: " let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
Page 65 - Whom having not seen, ye love : in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory : 9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
Page 499 - If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God ; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth : that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ; to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 399 - For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit...
Page 517 - 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 539 - Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility, for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Page 250 - For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
Page 137 - For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away : but the Word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the Word which by the Gospel is preached unto you.
Page 73 - Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous : and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
Page 41 - And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again ; as it is also written in the second Psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
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| Title | A practical commentary on the first Epistle of st. Peter, abridged by C. Bradley Volume 3 of Select Brit. divines Volume 3 of Select British divines, ed. by C. Bradley, Charles Bradley |
| Author | Robert Leighton (abp. of Glasgow.) |
| Editor | Charles Bradley |
| Published | 1821 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 1 Sep 2006 |
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