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... AND UNCERTAINTIES OF LIFE . Ecclesiastes , i . 14. I have seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and behold all is vanity and vexation of spirit . 322 342 SERMON I. ON THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD . ROMANS , viii CONTENTS .
... AND UNCERTAINTIES OF LIFE . Ecclesiastes , i . 14. I have seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and behold all is vanity and vexation of spirit . 322 342 SERMON I. ON THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD . ROMANS , viii CONTENTS .
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... spirit . But what is your idea of a spirit ? Is it not of something in- corporeal , intelligent , and inherently active ? Can you imagine an intellectual force universally dif- fused throughout creation , which is for a moment idle or ...
... spirit . But what is your idea of a spirit ? Is it not of something in- corporeal , intelligent , and inherently active ? Can you imagine an intellectual force universally dif- fused throughout creation , which is for a moment idle or ...
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... spirit of prophecy ? Or does God thus provide without her knowledge for her continued support ? And if for her - your own hearts , my hearers , will draw the inference . It has been justly remarked that this instinct is as indisputable ...
... spirit of prophecy ? Or does God thus provide without her knowledge for her continued support ? And if for her - your own hearts , my hearers , will draw the inference . It has been justly remarked that this instinct is as indisputable ...
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... spirits waited upon your orders and guarded your life ; - leave but God your enemy , and what is the worth of your security ? Let him be but your enemy , and what power on earth or in heaven could protect you ? But on the contrary , if ...
... spirits waited upon your orders and guarded your life ; - leave but God your enemy , and what is the worth of your security ? Let him be but your enemy , and what power on earth or in heaven could protect you ? But on the contrary , if ...
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... spirits , with the light of which he hoped to encircle his character . He begins to suspect that he has fashioned his feelings for a state of society which it is the amusement of ro- mancers only to pourtray , and of enthusiasts to im ...
... spirits , with the light of which he hoped to encircle his character . He begins to suspect that he has fashioned his feelings for a state of society which it is the amusement of ro- mancers only to pourtray , and of enthusiasts to im ...
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Page 22 - Hast thou not known ? hast thou not heard, that the Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary ? there is no searching of His understanding.
Page 271 - Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
Page 174 - I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not : if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Page 343 - I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
Page 55 - For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, and with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God...
Page 64 - Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink ? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in ? or naked, and clothed thee ? or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
Page 249 - For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it ? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it ? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Page 94 - Lord, Lord, open unto us ; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are : then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. But he shall say, I tell you, I know not whence ye are ; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
Page 342 - I have seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Page 183 - There is no moral formula more frequently cited, and with more deserved admiration, than that maxim of doing to others as we would have them do to us : and, as Paley observes, no one probably ever was in practice led astray by it.