Evangelical Principles and Practice: Being Fourteen Sermons, Preached in the Parish-church of St. Mary Magdalen in Oxford. To which is Added, The Communicant's Spiritual Companion; Or, An Evangelical Preparation for the Lord's Supper ... With Meditations and Helps for Prayer, Suitable to the Subject ...Edmund M. Blunt, 1803 - 332 pages |
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... least considerable part of his knowledge . He had the clearest knowledge of God him- self , as the author of his being , " in whom he lived and moved ; " of the bright perfections of the JEHOVAH , who had made all things around him to ...
... least considerable part of his knowledge . He had the clearest knowledge of God him- self , as the author of his being , " in whom he lived and moved ; " of the bright perfections of the JEHOVAH , who had made all things around him to ...
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... least blast of air , had yet felt no tumult of contending corruption ; but satisfied in itself , and conscious of its innocence , was re- plenished with consolations as from a well of water springing up into everlasting life : " ( John ...
... least blast of air , had yet felt no tumult of contending corruption ; but satisfied in itself , and conscious of its innocence , was re- plenished with consolations as from a well of water springing up into everlasting life : " ( John ...
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... least satisfaction he enjoyed ; but chose only one single tree to be the test of his obedience , " forbidding him to eat of it on penalty of death . " ( Gen. ii . 17. ) The thing was in itself indifferent ; the command of God en- joined ...
... least satisfaction he enjoyed ; but chose only one single tree to be the test of his obedience , " forbidding him to eat of it on penalty of death . " ( Gen. ii . 17. ) The thing was in itself indifferent ; the command of God en- joined ...
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... least that such powers and abilities remain with him , that he is of himself capable of pleasing God by the right exercise of his own reason and exertion of his sincere endeavours : or , as some imagine , that though of himself he is ...
... least that such powers and abilities remain with him , that he is of himself capable of pleasing God by the right exercise of his own reason and exertion of his sincere endeavours : or , as some imagine , that though of himself he is ...
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... least mixture of spiritual goodness remaining ; nor was aný moment excepted , evil continually flowed , as the stream from the fountain . But it may be objected , the evil mentioned here was not natural but acquired ; that men were not ...
... least mixture of spiritual goodness remaining ; nor was aný moment excepted , evil continually flowed , as the stream from the fountain . But it may be objected , the evil mentioned here was not natural but acquired ; that men were not ...
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Page 319 - HOW amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of Hosts! My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord : my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
Page 28 - Original Sin standeth not in the following of Adam (as the Pelagians do vainly talk;) but it is the fault and corruption of the Nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam ; whereby man is very far gone from original righteousness, and is of his own nature inclined to evil, so that the flesh lusteth always contrary to the spirit; and therefore in every person born into this world, it deserveth God's wrath and damnation.
Page 244 - God's wrath against us ; we provoke Him to plague us with divers diseases, and sundry kinds of death.
Page 26 - This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all; yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
Page 181 - Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God ? Be not deceived : neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Page 329 - Who is gone into Heaven, and is on the Right Hand of God ; Angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto Him.
Page 325 - His death and passion: and grant, that the grace of God, which bringeth salvation, may effectually teach and persuade me to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world...
Page 84 - Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things written in the book of the law to do them.
Page 272 - All that I am, and all I have Shall be for ever thine, Whate'er my duty bids me give My cheerful hands resign. 4 Yet if I might make some reserve, And duty did not call, I love my God with zeal so great That I should give him all.
Page 217 - Christ crucified, and to fight manfully under His banner against sin, the world, and the devil, and to continue Christ's faithful soldier and servant unto his life's end.