Seasonable Thoughts on the State of Religion in New-England: A Treatise in Five Parts ...

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Rogers and Fowle, 1743 - 442 pages

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Page 18 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Page 24 - Be ye angry, and sin not : let not the sun go down upon your wrath : neither give place to the devil.
Page 28 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the...
Page 25 - And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. 29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
Page 185 - Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion : for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
Page 177 - For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly ; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
Page 43 - For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you : for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ...
Page 176 - If a man fay, I love God, and hateth his brot;her, he is a liar : for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath feen, how can he love God whom he hath not feen ? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God, love his brother alfo.
Page 253 - Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God*.
Page 424 - Christ, or that in such an age it was not in. In a word, there is no sufficient certainty but of Scripture only, for any considering man to build upon. This therefore, and this only, I have reason to believe ; this I will profess ; according to this I will live ; and for this, if there be occasion, I will not only willingly, but even gladly, lose my life, though I should be sorry that Christians should take it from me.

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