Twelve sermons. TractsArchibald Constable and Company Edinburgh; White, Cochrane, and Company and Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, London; and John Cumming, Dublin., 1814 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 18
Page 28
... Jews and heathens without the article of Christ's divinity , which I remember Erasmus accounts for , by its being too strong a meat for babes . Perhaps if it were now softened by the Chi- nese missionaries , the conversion of these ...
... Jews and heathens without the article of Christ's divinity , which I remember Erasmus accounts for , by its being too strong a meat for babes . Perhaps if it were now softened by the Chi- nese missionaries , the conversion of these ...
Page 99
... Jews to prophesy any evil against the temple : This fellow said , " I am able to destroy the temple of God , and to build it in three days ; " whereas the words , as our Saviour spoke them , were to another end , and differently ...
... Jews to prophesy any evil against the temple : This fellow said , " I am able to destroy the temple of God , and to build it in three days ; " whereas the words , as our Saviour spoke them , were to another end , and differently ...
Page 174
... Jews and heathens without the article of Christ's divinity ; which , I remem- ber , Erasmus accounts for , by its being too strong a meat for babes . Perhaps , if it were now soft- ened by the Chinese missionaries , the conversion of ...
... Jews and heathens without the article of Christ's divinity ; which , I remem- ber , Erasmus accounts for , by its being too strong a meat for babes . Perhaps , if it were now soft- ened by the Chinese missionaries , the conversion of ...
Page 217
... Jews a Jew , and a Greek to the Greeks . How to remedy these inconveniences , may be a matter of some difficulty ; since the clergy seem to be of an opinion , that this humour of seques- tering themselves is a part of their duty ; nay ...
... Jews a Jew , and a Greek to the Greeks . How to remedy these inconveniences , may be a matter of some difficulty ; since the clergy seem to be of an opinion , that this humour of seques- tering themselves is a part of their duty ; nay ...
Page 234
... Jews , when they came out of the land of bondage , were under no settled government , until God was pleased to offer himself to be their king , to which all the people expressly consented . - God's laws bound no nation , except those ...
... Jews , when they came out of the land of bondage , were under no settled government , until God was pleased to offer himself to be their king , to which all the people expressly consented . - God's laws bound no nation , except those ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
absurd act of parliament advantage allowed answer arguments Aristotle atheist believe bishops body brotherly love called cause charity Christ Christianity church of England clergy common conscience consequence corruptions discourse dissenters divine doctrine doth duty ecclesiastical endeavour evil faith false witness farther favour freethinking give gospel greatest hath Hazael heart heathen high church holy honour ignorant instance Jacobites Jews king kingdom laity Lastly learned least liberty ligion lives Lord Low Church mankind manner mean meanest ment mind morality mysteries nation nature neighbour neral never observe opinion papists parish parliament party perhaps persons Plato poor popery preacher preaching pretend priests prince principles punish reason religion ruin Saviour scripture sects sermon Socinians sort suppose tell ther thing think freely thought tion true truth vice VIII virtue wherein Whig whole wholly wicked wisdom wise words write
Popular passages
Page 99 - And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
Page 78 - But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you : for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
Page 156 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Page 159 - But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Page 116 - Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 47 - Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
Page 197 - Who would ever have suspected Asgill for a wit, or Toland for a philosopher, if the inexhaustible stock of Christianity had not been at hand to provide them with materials ? What other subject, through all art or nature, could have produced Tindal for a profound author, or furnished him with readers? It is the wise choice of the subject that alone adorns and distinguishes the writer. For had an hundred such pens as these been employed on the side of religion, they would have immediately sunk into...
Page 43 - Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility : for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Page 337 - Proper words, in proper places, make the true definition of a style.
Page 63 - Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness ; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens...