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She cannot go nor stir without that drawing ; and yet with it , she not only goes , but runs ; We will run after thee . Think it not enough that you hear the word , and use the outward ordinances of God , and profess his name ; for many ...
She cannot go nor stir without that drawing ; and yet with it , she not only goes , but runs ; We will run after thee . Think it not enough that you hear the word , and use the outward ordinances of God , and profess his name ; for many ...
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... that shall enjoy him , and be happy in him for ever ; for our love and electing of him , is but the return and repercussion of the beams of his love shining upon us . Find thou but within thee sanctification by the Spirit , and this ...
... that shall enjoy him , and be happy in him for ever ; for our love and electing of him , is but the return and repercussion of the beams of his love shining upon us . Find thou but within thee sanctification by the Spirit , and this ...
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... and that prophecy , Thou art my Son ; this day have I begotten thee , is applied to bis resurrection as fulfilled in it , Acts xiii , 33 ; God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children , in that he hath raised up Jesus again ...
... and that prophecy , Thou art my Son ; this day have I begotten thee , is applied to bis resurrection as fulfilled in it , Acts xiii , 33 ; God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children , in that he hath raised up Jesus again ...
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This is the style of the gospel , as formerly , under the law , it was The God of Abraham , Isaac , and Jacob , and , The God that brought thee up out of the land of Egypt , & c . This now is the order of the government of grace ...
This is the style of the gospel , as formerly , under the law , it was The God of Abraham , Isaac , and Jacob , and , The God that brought thee up out of the land of Egypt , & c . This now is the order of the government of grace ...
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The rich man in the gospel talked of many years , but Thou fool , this night shall thy soul be required of thee , was the longest period . The many years are quickly drawn to a very great abatement , and if full of pains and griefs ...
The rich man in the gospel talked of many years , but Thou fool , this night shall thy soul be required of thee , was the longest period . The many years are quickly drawn to a very great abatement , and if full of pains and griefs ...
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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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