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Page 94
I have sometimes said to my heart , Come , now let us go pray , love God , think of
heaven ; but O how listless to these things ! how lifeless in them , impressions
made , how quickly lost ! gracious frames , how soon wrought off and gone ...
I have sometimes said to my heart , Come , now let us go pray , love God , think of
heaven ; but O how listless to these things ! how lifeless in them , impressions
made , how quickly lost ! gracious frames , how soon wrought off and gone ...
Page 97
Be not weary in well - doing , for ye shall reap , if ye faint not : what would I once
have given for a steady , abiding frame of holiness , for a heart constantly bent
and biased toward God ; constantly serious , constantly tender , lively , watchful ...
Be not weary in well - doing , for ye shall reap , if ye faint not : what would I once
have given for a steady , abiding frame of holiness , for a heart constantly bent
and biased toward God ; constantly serious , constantly tender , lively , watchful ...
Page 125
What violence is there done to reasonable nature in all this ? or what can hinder
thee herein , but a most culpably averse and wicked heart ? Did thy reason ever
turn off thy soul frora God ? was it not thy corruption only ? What vile images dost
...
What violence is there done to reasonable nature in all this ? or what can hinder
thee herein , but a most culpably averse and wicked heart ? Did thy reason ever
turn off thy soul frora God ? was it not thy corruption only ? What vile images dost
...
Page 137
Certainly , its most connatural effect is that very change of heart , and inclination
God - ward , of wich we have been speaking . What is so suitable to the gospel -
revelation , as a good temper of heart God - ward ? And how absurd is it to ...
Certainly , its most connatural effect is that very change of heart , and inclination
God - ward , of wich we have been speaking . What is so suitable to the gospel -
revelation , as a good temper of heart God - ward ? And how absurd is it to ...
Page 179
Further , Canst thou not consider the power and fixedness of thy aversation from
God ; and with how mighty a weight thy heart is carried and held down from Him
? Try , lift at thy heart , see if it will be raised God - ward and heaven - ward ?
Further , Canst thou not consider the power and fixedness of thy aversation from
God ; and with how mighty a weight thy heart is carried and held down from Him
? Try , lift at thy heart , see if it will be raised God - ward and heaven - ward ?
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Page 211 - For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? and again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son ? And again, when he bringeth in the first Begotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.
Page 340 - For the things that are seen are Temporal; but the things that are not seen are Eternal.
Page 243 - Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: for that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord: they would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof: therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Page 88 - As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me! If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Page 270 - For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. 12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
Page 322 - Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended : but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Page 275 - ... of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer: seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you...
Page 292 - I have set the Lord always before me : Because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Page 345 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Page 73 - Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler ; the snare is broken, and we are delivered.
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| Title | Select Practical Works of Rev. John Howe and Dr. William Bates |
| Author | James Marsh |
| Publisher | Chauncey Goodrich, 1830 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 12 May 2006 |
| Length | 550 pages |
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