Lectures on the Pilgrim's Progress, and on the Life and Times of John BunyanE. Walker, 1846 - 326 pages |
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... Tempter . It possesses , indeed , the elements of a great spiritual drama . The Faust of Goethe is not to be compared with it for truth and depth and vividness . There are but few actors , but those how solemn , how grand , how awful ...
... Tempter . It possesses , indeed , the elements of a great spiritual drama . The Faust of Goethe is not to be compared with it for truth and depth and vividness . There are but few actors , but those how solemn , how grand , how awful ...
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... Tempter and Adversary of Mankind . We come now to a great and important subject , Bunyan's temptations . In the midst of deep and terrible convictions of sin he received great comfort and joy on hearing a sermon preached on the love of ...
... Tempter and Adversary of Mankind . We come now to a great and important subject , Bunyan's temptations . In the midst of deep and terrible convictions of sin he received great comfort and joy on hearing a sermon preached on the love of ...
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... Tempter would be upon him with such discouragements as these : " You are very hot after mercy , but I will cool you ; this frame shall not last always ; many have been as hot as you for a season ; but I have quenched their zeal . ' And ...
... Tempter would be upon him with such discouragements as these : " You are very hot after mercy , but I will cool you ; this frame shall not last always ; many have been as hot as you for a season ; but I have quenched their zeal . ' And ...
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... Tempter rushed upon him with a dreadful violence for the space of another whole year , in which , if I should take the whole evening , I could not describe you the twinings and wrestlings , the strivings and agonies of Bunyan's spirit ...
... Tempter rushed upon him with a dreadful violence for the space of another whole year , in which , if I should take the whole evening , I could not describe you the twinings and wrestlings , the strivings and agonies of Bunyan's spirit ...
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... Tempter , from the point of almost morbid lunacy , as it were , the horrid charm would be broken . If at this time Bunyan's mind could have been strongly arrested and filled by a presentation of Christ crucified , Satan would have found ...
... Tempter , from the point of almost morbid lunacy , as it were , the horrid charm would be broken . If at this time Bunyan's mind could have been strongly arrested and filled by a presentation of Christ crucified , Satan would have found ...
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Page 63 - But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months...
Page 24 - But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Page 24 - Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed ; but in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings...
Page 20 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 28 - Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities ; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Page 5 - For God speaketh once, Yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falleth upon men, In slumberings upon the bed ; Then he openeth the ears of men, And sealeth their instruction, That he my withdraw man from his purpose, And hide pride from man.
Page 109 - Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
Page 76 - Now just as the Gates were opened to let in the men, I looked in after them, and behold, the City shone like the Sun; the Streets also were paved with Gold, and in them walked many men, with Crowns on their heads, Palms in their hands, and golden Harps to sing praises withal. There were also of them that had wings, and they answered one another without intermission, saying, Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord And after that they shut up the Gates.
Page 38 - And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
Page 42 - Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord : and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man ; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them : they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.