Sermons: Chiefly of a Practical NatureJ. Gales, 1821 - 335 pages |
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... affliction with immortal hopes . 2. Nor was this salvation to be ascribed to works . " Not of works , " says the Apostle , " lest any man should boast . " The term " works , " may be applied to the operation of any agency whatever , or ...
... affliction with immortal hopes . 2. Nor was this salvation to be ascribed to works . " Not of works , " says the Apostle , " lest any man should boast . " The term " works , " may be applied to the operation of any agency whatever , or ...
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... affliction and woe ; but , as in the first case , individual suffering seldom fails to be productive of the general good , so , in the latter , the unprovoked pains and sorrows of private life are admirably calculated to promote the ...
... affliction and woe ; but , as in the first case , individual suffering seldom fails to be productive of the general good , so , in the latter , the unprovoked pains and sorrows of private life are admirably calculated to promote the ...
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... affliction and sorrow . * I appear again amongst you , both to mourn and to rejoice . For we have all had * This Discourse was delivered on the 7th of December , 1817 . our portion of distress . Disease and death have torn 79 shadow of ...
... affliction and sorrow . * I appear again amongst you , both to mourn and to rejoice . For we have all had * This Discourse was delivered on the 7th of December , 1817 . our portion of distress . Disease and death have torn 79 shadow of ...
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... affliction with which our bre- thren have been visited . Surely , then , a well- founded confidence in Divine Providence , is a fit subject for our present meditation . For it is this which administers comfort under the severest afflictions ...
... affliction with which our bre- thren have been visited . Surely , then , a well- founded confidence in Divine Providence , is a fit subject for our present meditation . For it is this which administers comfort under the severest afflictions ...
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... affliction , so shall we be exalted before God ; and that every tear of pious anguish - every devout ejaculation of the heart , is recorded in Heaven ! The Gospel assures us , that , though this life is necessarily checquered with evil ...
... affliction , so shall we be exalted before God ; and that every tear of pious anguish - every devout ejaculation of the heart , is recorded in Heaven ! The Gospel assures us , that , though this life is necessarily checquered with evil ...
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Page v - But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
Page 63 - Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers...
Page iv - And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven, and I say also unto thee that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Page v - And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre...
Page 283 - Now unto Him that is able to keep us from falling, and. to present us faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy ; to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Page 8 - 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 iii - Abide in Me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can ye except ye abide in Me. I am the Vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. For without Me ye can do nothing.
Page 181 - This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth : But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another?
Page 131 - Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Page 71 - Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law : for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.