Sermons,T. Cadell, and W. Davies ... and W. Creech, Edinburgh., 1808 |
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... with firmness to maintain his post ; to bear up against the storm ; to have recourse to those advan- tages which , in the worst of times , are always I. always left to integrity and virtue ; and SERMON 12 On the Causes of.
... with firmness to maintain his post ; to bear up against the storm ; to have recourse to those advan- tages which , in the worst of times , are always I. always left to integrity and virtue ; and SERMON 12 On the Causes of.
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Hugh Blair, James Finlayson. I. always left to integrity and virtue ; and SERMON never to give up the hope that better days may yet arise . It is good for persons in such situations to remark that , though Job was for a long while ...
Hugh Blair, James Finlayson. I. always left to integrity and virtue ; and SERMON never to give up the hope that better days may yet arise . It is good for persons in such situations to remark that , though Job was for a long while ...
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... virtue . Breathing after a higher state , they imagined that they could not abstract themselves too much from every ... virtues of man . This life deserves not indeed to be put in competition with that blessed immortality to which God ...
... virtue . Breathing after a higher state , they imagined that they could not abstract themselves too much from every ... virtues of man . This life deserves not indeed to be put in competition with that blessed immortality to which God ...
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... virtue and a good conscience are the surest foundations of enjoyment ; that he who serves his God and his Saviour with the purest inten- tions , and governs his passions with the greatest care , is likely to lead the happiest life ...
... virtue and a good conscience are the surest foundations of enjoyment ; that he who serves his God and his Saviour with the purest inten- tions , and governs his passions with the greatest care , is likely to lead the happiest life ...
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... virtue ; but a disposition resi- ding in the heart , as a fountain whence all the virtues of benignity , candour , for- bearance , generosity , compassion , and li- berality flow , as so many native streams . From general good - will to ...
... virtue ; but a disposition resi- ding in the heart , as a fountain whence all the virtues of benignity , candour , for- bearance , generosity , compassion , and li- berality flow , as so many native streams . From general good - will to ...
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Page 427 - Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Page 310 - I am the Lord, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
Page 95 - But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many.
Page 133 - Oh that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Page 97 - The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice ; the floods lift up their waves. The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
Page 138 - And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying. Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
Page 226 - LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
Page 406 - Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 153 - Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith: or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching: or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
Page 15 - For it was not an enemy that reproached me ; then I could have borne it : neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me ; then I would have hid myself from him : 13 But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.