Discourses on Various Subjects, Volume 2Wells and Lilly, 1816 |
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... charity , and therefore will not now so readily be censured for vanity , if I make use of all the ways I can to minister to the good of souls . But because my intentions are fair in themselves , and I hope are acceptable to God , and ...
... charity , and therefore will not now so readily be censured for vanity , if I make use of all the ways I can to minister to the good of souls . But because my intentions are fair in themselves , and I hope are acceptable to God , and ...
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... charity should come by faith , and by both together we may be saved . For a man's ears ( as Plutarch calls them ) are virtutum ansae , by them we are to hold and apprehend virtue ; and unless we use them as men do vessels of dishonour ...
... charity should come by faith , and by both together we may be saved . For a man's ears ( as Plutarch calls them ) are virtutum ansae , by them we are to hold and apprehend virtue ; and unless we use them as men do vessels of dishonour ...
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... charity is to be beloved , his ability is to be accounted upon another stock , and for it the preacher and the hearer are both to give God thanks ; but nothing is due to the man for that , save only that it is the rather to be employed ...
... charity is to be beloved , his ability is to be accounted upon another stock , and for it the preacher and the hearer are both to give God thanks ; but nothing is due to the man for that , save only that it is the rather to be employed ...
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... charity too ; that supposes an absence of some good , but this is a direct affliction and calamity . 4. And after all this , if the preacher be not des- pised , he may proceed cheerfully in doing his duty , and the hearer may have some ...
... charity too ; that supposes an absence of some good , but this is a direct affliction and calamity . 4. And after all this , if the preacher be not des- pised , he may proceed cheerfully in doing his duty , and the hearer may have some ...
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... charity enlarged . They that are other- wise affected do not do their duty : but if they be so minded as they ought , I and all men of my employ- ment shall be secured against the tongues and faces of men who are ingeniosi in alieno ...
... charity enlarged . They that are other- wise affected do not do their duty : but if they be so minded as they ought , I and all men of my employ- ment shall be secured against the tongues and faces of men who are ingeniosi in alieno ...
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Page 101 - For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge ! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
Page 244 - But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
Page 26 - 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 74 - Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace : And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood ; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.
Page 114 - Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith ; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
Page 14 - 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 100 - But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Page 1 - 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 187 - 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...
Page 430 - The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: 10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government.