The Whole Works of Robert Leighton, Archbishop of Glasgow: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author, Volume 2James Duncan, 1825 |
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... certainly a natural man may fall out with it ; but this is but as the little jars of husband and wife , which are far from dissolving the marriage : it is not a fixed hatred , such as amongst the Jews inferred a divorce - If thou hate ...
... certainly a natural man may fall out with it ; but this is but as the little jars of husband and wife , which are far from dissolving the marriage : it is not a fixed hatred , such as amongst the Jews inferred a divorce - If thou hate ...
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... certainly , they are a little ridi- culous , who would persuade men to be content to die , by rea- soning from the necessity and unavoidableness of it , which , taken alone , rather may beget a desperate discontent , than a quiet ...
... certainly , they are a little ridi- culous , who would persuade men to be content to die , by rea- soning from the necessity and unavoidableness of it , which , taken alone , rather may beget a desperate discontent , than a quiet ...
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... certainly , they who sensibly want this , and yet seek it not of Him , what wonder is it , though they find much bitterness and discontent ? Yea , where they agree , if it be only in natural affection , their ob- servance of the duties ...
... certainly , they who sensibly want this , and yet seek it not of Him , what wonder is it , though they find much bitterness and discontent ? Yea , where they agree , if it be only in natural affection , their ob- servance of the duties ...
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... certainly , and the strongest union that can be ima- gined . Now this is a great mystery indeed , as the Apostle says , Eph . v . 32 , speaking of this same point , the union of Christ and his Church , whence their union and communion ...
... certainly , and the strongest union that can be ima- gined . Now this is a great mystery indeed , as the Apostle says , Eph . v . 32 , speaking of this same point , the union of Christ and his Church , whence their union and communion ...
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... certainly , where this exists , it is the ground - work of another kind of friendship and love than the world is ac- quainted with , or is able to judge of , and hath more worth in one drachm of it , than all the quintessence of civil ...
... certainly , where this exists , it is the ground - work of another kind of friendship and love than the world is ac- quainted with , or is able to judge of , and hath more worth in one drachm of it , than all the quintessence of civil ...
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Page 98 - For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: Let him eschew evil and do good: let him seek peace, and ensue it.
Page 343 - As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. " If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 317 - In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them : in his love, and in his pity, he redeemed them, and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
Page 199 - For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit...
Page 233 - Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Page 493 - Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
Page 378 - And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name.
Page 574 - Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Page 611 - For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office; so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
Page 539 - Surely every man walketh in a vain shew : surely they are disquieted in vain : he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. And now, LORD, what wait I for ? my hope is- in Thee.