The Whole Works of the Rev. Ebenezer Erskine, Minister of the Gospel at Stirling: Consisting of Sermons and Discourses, on Important and Interesting Subjects. To which is Added, an Enlarged Memoir of the Author, by D. Fraser, Volume 2W. S. & A. Young, 1836 |
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... never pretended to deliver every particular word or sentence contained in his notes , which to him would be the greatest slavery and confinement . But as the sermon stood in his notes , so it comes abroad ; and he supposes that there ...
... never pretended to deliver every particular word or sentence contained in his notes , which to him would be the greatest slavery and confinement . But as the sermon stood in his notes , so it comes abroad ; and he supposes that there ...
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... never end while the world stands . But besides foreign enemies , the church of Christ has to deal with intes- tine enemies , corrupt officers , members , and ministers , pretend- ing to build , and yet causing the work to cease , in as ...
... never end while the world stands . But besides foreign enemies , the church of Christ has to deal with intes- tine enemies , corrupt officers , members , and ministers , pretend- ing to build , and yet causing the work to cease , in as ...
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... never touched them with his sceptre , they want a foun- dation in the word of God ; and unless acts and laws are founded there , they have no foundation at all , because there is no church - authority but what is derived from him . 5 ...
... never touched them with his sceptre , they want a foun- dation in the word of God ; and unless acts and laws are founded there , they have no foundation at all , because there is no church - authority but what is derived from him . 5 ...
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... never ordained in his kingdom , or never were warranted by his word . We read of no officer under the New Testament su- perior to a presbyter ; and therefore archbishops and bishops have no warrant in the word , and can be none of the ...
... never ordained in his kingdom , or never were warranted by his word . We read of no officer under the New Testament su- perior to a presbyter ; and therefore archbishops and bishops have no warrant in the word , and can be none of the ...
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... never consider what is in them : just like a com- pany of people travelling the highway where an immense treasure lies under their feet ; they pass and repass it , but miss the treasure , because they never dig into the field ; so ...
... never consider what is in them : just like a com- pany of people travelling the highway where an immense treasure lies under their feet ; they pass and repass it , but miss the treasure , because they never dig into the field ; so ...
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Page 206 - Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience : Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind ; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Page 373 - And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness ; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those : the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
Page 23 - And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: 21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
Page 412 - Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come. For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.
Page 247 - I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Page 323 - And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee : though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. Behold, God is my salvation ; I will trust, and not be afraid ; for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song ; he also is become my salvation.
Page 51 - Thus saith the Lord ; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh ; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Page 122 - There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, And fire out of his mouth devoured: Coals were kindled by it.
Page 120 - As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord ; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
Page 9 - For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given : and the government shall be upon his shoulder : and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.