Repentance Explained and Enforced: Being a Serious Appeal to Every Man's Conscience on Its Nature, Necessity, and EvidencesCummings and Hilliard, 1818 - 179 pages |
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... appears gross or trite to one , may be too refined and abstruse for another . Those who are little acquainted with the poor and illiterate , can scarcely have an idea how difficult it is to render re- ligious truth sufficiently palpable ...
... appears gross or trite to one , may be too refined and abstruse for another . Those who are little acquainted with the poor and illiterate , can scarcely have an idea how difficult it is to render re- ligious truth sufficiently palpable ...
Page ix
... appear- ed well - adapted to answer the same end , I should certainly have spared my labour . I am not without hope , that masters , or heads of families , may be induced to give this , with other serious books , to their servants ; and ...
... appear- ed well - adapted to answer the same end , I should certainly have spared my labour . I am not without hope , that masters , or heads of families , may be induced to give this , with other serious books , to their servants ; and ...
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... appear as a slight speck ; it is the dark colouring that overspreads the whole piece . Do not turn away with levity or scorn , as if it no way concerned I have you . purposely held up this picture to your view , that you may try if you ...
... appear as a slight speck ; it is the dark colouring that overspreads the whole piece . Do not turn away with levity or scorn , as if it no way concerned I have you . purposely held up this picture to your view , that you may try if you ...
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... appear foolishness to him . As his imagination gilds every thing with false colours , he is pleased where he should ... appears in a new light . 1. The sincere penitent has right views of God . Once he did not like to retain God in his ...
... appear foolishness to him . As his imagination gilds every thing with false colours , he is pleased where he should ... appears in a new light . 1. The sincere penitent has right views of God . Once he did not like to retain God in his ...
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... appear ? " The carnal man , " as a good writer observes , " is apt to think God ought to repent of making such hard laws , rather than that he himself should repent of breaking them . " Instead of changing his course , and turning out ...
... appear ? " The carnal man , " as a good writer observes , " is apt to think God ought to repent of making such hard laws , rather than that he himself should repent of breaking them . " Instead of changing his course , and turning out ...
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Page 108 - For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly ; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh : but he is a Jew, which is one inwardly ; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter ; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Page 3 - And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they suffered such things ? I tell you, Nay ; but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Page 70 - Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance...
Page 78 - Lord who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry, who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious ; but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief, and the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant, with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners : of whom I am chief.
Page 97 - LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth ? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved ; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction : they have made their faces harder than a rock ; they have refused to return.
Page 82 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 120 - Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the LORD, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters saith the LORD Almighty...
Page 77 - Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Page 163 - But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost ; in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Page 11 - As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.