Discourses on Various Subjects, Volume 2Wells and Lilly, 1816 |
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... punishment , but did not help us to obedience , because it gave not the promise of eternal life to its disciples . The spirit , that is , the gospel , only does this : and this alone is it which comforts afflicted minds , which puts ...
... punishment , but did not help us to obedience , because it gave not the promise of eternal life to its disciples . The spirit , that is , the gospel , only does this : and this alone is it which comforts afflicted minds , which puts ...
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... punish our persons or our estate , he will chastise us at home or abroad , in our bodies or in our children ; for he will visit our sins upon our children from genera- tion to generation : and if they be made miserable for our sins ...
... punish our persons or our estate , he will chastise us at home or abroad , in our bodies or in our children ; for he will visit our sins upon our children from genera- tion to generation : and if they be made miserable for our sins ...
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... punish- ment ; yet the suffering the natural death was direct- ly none , but a condition of his creation , natural , and therefore not primarily evil ; but if not good , yet at least indifferent . And the truth and purpose of this ...
... punish- ment ; yet the suffering the natural death was direct- ly none , but a condition of his creation , natural , and therefore not primarily evil ; but if not good , yet at least indifferent . And the truth and purpose of this ...
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... punishment . And of this I shall shew . 1. In what instances usually it is so . 2. For what reasons it is so , and ... punished the people for the crime ; seventy thousand men died of the plague . And when God gave to David the choice of ...
... punishment . And of this I shall shew . 1. In what instances usually it is so . 2. For what reasons it is so , and ... punished the people for the crime ; seventy thousand men died of the plague . And when God gave to David the choice of ...
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... punished upon the sons of the family , and the king's fault upon the people of his land ; even after the death of the king , after the death of the father . Thus God visited the sin of Ahab partly up- on himself , partly upon his sons ...
... punished upon the sons of the family , and the king's fault upon the people of his land ; even after the death of the king , after the death of the father . Thus God visited the sin of Ahab partly up- on himself , partly upon his sons ...
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Page 162 - For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God : and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God ? 18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Page 244 - But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
Page 384 - ... according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not...
Page 94 - Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us...
Page 76 - Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace : And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood ; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.
Page 16 - Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
Page 1 - But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Page 372 - Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Page 180 - Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another : and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of Hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels ; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
Page 180 - And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels ; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked : between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.