Sermons, Volume 5T.Cadell and W.Davies; F.C. and J.Rivington; Nichols, Son, and Bentley; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; ... [and 11 others in London]: and A.Constable and Company; Manners and Miller; and J.Fairbairn, Edinburgh: and G.Clarke, Aberdeen., 1818 - 475 pages |
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... suffered to arise with groundless precipitancy , and to acquire an undue ascendant , it is evident that they will produce much delusion in conduct , and often will engender much vice and guilt . As there is a hope of the Righteous which ...
... suffered to arise with groundless precipitancy , and to acquire an undue ascendant , it is evident that they will produce much delusion in conduct , and often will engender much vice and guilt . As there is a hope of the Righteous which ...
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... suffers the fewest troubles . To look for entire exemption from them , is to court disappointment . * At the same time , I do not mean to hold it forth as any precept of religion or wis- dom , that we ought always to sadden the present ...
... suffers the fewest troubles . To look for entire exemption from them , is to court disappointment . * At the same time , I do not mean to hold it forth as any precept of religion or wis- dom , that we ought always to sadden the present ...
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... suffers by himself , exhibits only an imperfect view of his condition . In the present state of human affairs , we are all so closely interwoven with one another , that a very material part of our happiness or misery arises from the ...
... suffers by himself , exhibits only an imperfect view of his condition . In the present state of human affairs , we are all so closely interwoven with one another , that a very material part of our happiness or misery arises from the ...
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... suffer . Hence the spleen and resentment which is so often breaking forth , disturbing the peace of society , and involving it in crimes and miseries . Were expectations more mo- derate , they would be more favourably received . Did we ...
... suffer . Hence the spleen and resentment which is so often breaking forth , disturbing the peace of society , and involving it in crimes and miseries . Were expectations more mo- derate , they would be more favourably received . Did we ...
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... suffered from the want of it . - Assuredly , the peace of an approving conscience is one of the chief ingredients of human happiness ; one of the most grateful of all sensations to the heart of man : provided always that this self ...
... suffered from the want of it . - Assuredly , the peace of an approving conscience is one of the chief ingredients of human happiness ; one of the most grateful of all sensations to the heart of man : provided always that this self ...
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Page 210 - God is not a man that he should lie; nor the son of man, that he should repent...
Page 100 - Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.
Page 185 - For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.
Page 149 - My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness ; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips: When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
Page 328 - For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow?
Page 32 - Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name : bring an offering, and come into his courts. O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness : fear before him, all the earth.
Page 248 - For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
Page 353 - For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Page 147 - Nevertheless I am continually with thee: Thou hast holden me by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, And afterward receive me to glory.
Page 79 - Create in me a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within me...