Sermons, Volume 1J. Burns, 1842 |
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... feel a conscious oneness with his former guilty self ? Who does not feel within the smiting of conscience , the vivid recollection of past sins , with all their colour and aggravation ; how he tempted the temptation , how he courted the ...
... feel a conscious oneness with his former guilty self ? Who does not feel within the smiting of conscience , the vivid recollection of past sins , with all their colour and aggravation ; how he tempted the temptation , how he courted the ...
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... feel what was once unheeded . What is this but the yearning of the new creature to burst the bondage of corruption . In you , then , old things are passed , as the night is passed when the darkness is driven before the coming day ; and ...
... feel what was once unheeded . What is this but the yearning of the new creature to burst the bondage of corruption . In you , then , old things are passed , as the night is passed when the darkness is driven before the coming day ; and ...
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... feeling around for its old supports , ever looking back on its former self . What we once were cleaves so closely to us , that we shall never be wholly free till the morning of the resurrection . The holiness to which our baptism has ...
... feeling around for its old supports , ever looking back on its former self . What we once were cleaves so closely to us , that we shall never be wholly free till the morning of the resurrection . The holiness to which our baptism has ...
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... feel chilled and backward ; for the justified fault is a har- boured canker , and the repulsion of an alienated will thrusts them away from God . 3. And lastly , beware of those particular forms of temptation which have already once ...
... feel chilled and backward ; for the justified fault is a har- boured canker , and the repulsion of an alienated will thrusts them away from God . 3. And lastly , beware of those particular forms of temptation which have already once ...
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... feels a consciousness that his own very being is an inef- fable work of God - his own body of dust , wrought after some high type of wisdom and perfection— knit together in a wonderful order - quickened by an ineffable breath of God ...
... feels a consciousness that his own very being is an inef- fable work of God - his own body of dust , wrought after some high type of wisdom and perfection— knit together in a wonderful order - quickened by an ineffable breath of God ...
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Page ix - And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation : Neither shall they say, Lo here ! or, lo there ! for, Behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
Page 250 - For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same, my name shall be great among the gentiles, and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page x - And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?
Page 365 - So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption; it is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
Page 37 - He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses : of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the Blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite to the Spirit of grace ? For we know Him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto Me, I will recompense, saith the Lord.
Page 208 - If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God.
Page viii - Enter ye in at the strait gate : for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat : because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Page viii - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass : 24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Page 125 - Woe unto thee, Chorazin ! Woe unto thee Bethsaida ! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
Page 174 - And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers, saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.