Select Practical Theology of the Seventeenth Century: Comprising the Best Practical Works of the Great English Divines, and Other Congenial Authors of that AgeChauncey Goodrich, 1830 |
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... heaven , who are daily laying up a treasure there , here is a welcome messenger , to tell you more than perhaps you have well considered , of the nature of your future blessedness , and to illustrate the map of the land of pro- mise ...
... heaven , who are daily laying up a treasure there , here is a welcome messenger , to tell you more than perhaps you have well considered , of the nature of your future blessedness , and to illustrate the map of the land of pro- mise ...
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... heaven upon the children of men , to see if any will understand , if any will seek after God ; and the result of the inquiry is , there is none that doth good , no not one . Psal . 53. 3. They are haters of God as our Saviour accused ...
... heaven upon the children of men , to see if any will understand , if any will seek after God ; and the result of the inquiry is , there is none that doth good , no not one . Psal . 53. 3. They are haters of God as our Saviour accused ...
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... heaven , as intermediate there- unto ; they aim at the bringing us into a heaven upon earth ; to form us unto a life agreeable , and that hath analogy with that of heaven ; unto which nothing is more analogous in our present state ...
... heaven , as intermediate there- unto ; they aim at the bringing us into a heaven upon earth ; to form us unto a life agreeable , and that hath analogy with that of heaven ; unto which nothing is more analogous in our present state ...
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... heaven and earth , that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent , and revealed them to babes ; even so Father , be- cause it pleased thee ! Luke 10. 21. Here was a thing fit to be reflected on , as a piece of divine royalty ...
... heaven and earth , that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent , and revealed them to babes ; even so Father , be- cause it pleased thee ! Luke 10. 21. Here was a thing fit to be reflected on , as a piece of divine royalty ...
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... heaven in them . We rest in some gene- ral and confused notion of it , in which there is little either of efficacy ... heaven to us ; nor left us to the un- certain guesses of our own imagination , the wild fictions of an unguided fancy ...
... heaven in them . We rest in some gene- ral and confused notion of it , in which there is little either of efficacy ... heaven to us ; nor left us to the un- certain guesses of our own imagination , the wild fictions of an unguided fancy ...
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Page 299 - 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 368 - 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 458 - 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 391 - ... 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 408 - I have set the Lord always before me : Because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Page 89 - Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler ; the snare is broken, and we are delivered.
Page 491 - 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 504 - There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
Page 300 - And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, And his ministers a flame of fire.
Page 381 - For he that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.