Sermons preached before the University of Oxford ... in the years MDCCCXXXVII., MDCCCXXXVIII., MDCCCXXXIX.James Burns, 1839 - 102 pages |
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... growing into a habit , and so providing for its own recurrence , but also by leading to the commission of other acts of iniquity . We see daily , that one sin prepares the soul which harbours it for the admission of evils different from ...
... growing into a habit , and so providing for its own recurrence , but also by leading to the commission of other acts of iniquity . We see daily , that one sin prepares the soul which harbours it for the admission of evils different from ...
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... grow , almost unawares , to love and serve Him better . Of old , it was by a great trial , and , it may be , after a sharp struggle , that the mind was turned away from earthly and fixed upon heavenly things ; but now that the habit of ...
... grow , almost unawares , to love and serve Him better . Of old , it was by a great trial , and , it may be , after a sharp struggle , that the mind was turned away from earthly and fixed upon heavenly things ; but now that the habit of ...
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... growing holiness , so do they multiply upon increasing iniquity . To such an one the simplest words of innocence become un- hallowed allusions , tempting him to loose and evil imaginations . As to a body weakened by disease , the very ...
... growing holiness , so do they multiply upon increasing iniquity . To such an one the simplest words of innocence become un- hallowed allusions , tempting him to loose and evil imaginations . As to a body weakened by disease , the very ...
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... grow into unbelief . This is indeed , whatever we may deem of it , an awful state when the Spirit of the Lord is grieved , and He is gone ; when Satan has been tempted , and he is come . who that , counting upon future aid , thus sins ...
... grow into unbelief . This is indeed , whatever we may deem of it , an awful state when the Spirit of the Lord is grieved , and He is gone ; when Satan has been tempted , and he is come . who that , counting upon future aid , thus sins ...
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... those only who have received in infancy the great gift of adoption , and have grown up , even from the dawnings of their reason , within the fold of God . And so the parable proceeds . The THE PENAL CONSEQUENCE OF SIN . 35.
... those only who have received in infancy the great gift of adoption , and have grown up , even from the dawnings of their reason , within the fold of God . And so the parable proceeds . The THE PENAL CONSEQUENCE OF SIN . 35.
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Page 101 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Page 33 - And he spake this parable unto them, saying, what man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost...
Page 67 - And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
Page 92 - But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you : but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
Page 196 - And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation: To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
Page 54 - Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness ; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Page 77 - How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?
Page 143 - ... being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost in the womb of the virgin Mary, of her substance...
Page 101 - Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: 19.
Page 93 - I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients because I keep thy precepts.