A Practical Discourse Concerning DeathPratt & Doubleday, 1814 - 288 pages |
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... better , and there- fore very few are desirous of a change : extreme miseries may conquer the love of life , and some few divine souls may long with St. Paul to be dissolved and to be with Christ , which is best of all , but this world ...
... better , and there- fore very few are desirous of a change : extreme miseries may conquer the love of life , and some few divine souls may long with St. Paul to be dissolved and to be with Christ , which is best of all , but this world ...
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... better life when we know that we must leave this world , what does it signify to die a little sooner , than it may be in the course of nature we should , to obtain an immortal life ? To go to that blessed Jesus , who lived in this world ...
... better life when we know that we must leave this world , what does it signify to die a little sooner , than it may be in the course of nature we should , to obtain an immortal life ? To go to that blessed Jesus , who lived in this world ...
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... better . What we value most , we desire to enjoy longest , and were it in our power , we would make such things the most lasting ; which shews , that it is the natural sense of mankind , that the best things deserve to continue longest ...
... better . What we value most , we desire to enjoy longest , and were it in our power , we would make such things the most lasting ; which shews , that it is the natural sense of mankind , that the best things deserve to continue longest ...
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... better than this world , as it will last longer . For this is most agree- too , and God's love to able to the divine goodness his creatures , that what is their greatest and truest happiness should be most lasting . For if God have made ...
... better than this world , as it will last longer . For this is most agree- too , and God's love to able to the divine goodness his creatures , that what is their greatest and truest happiness should be most lasting . For if God have made ...
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... at present ) there are several very good uses to be made of this : as , I. To rectify our notions about present things . II . To live in expectation of some better things . III . Not to be over concerned about 24 A PRACTICAL DISCOURSE.
... at present ) there are several very good uses to be made of this : as , I. To rectify our notions about present things . II . To live in expectation of some better things . III . Not to be over concerned about 24 A PRACTICAL DISCOURSE.
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Page 92 - For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.
Page 199 - To-day if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. And as in the day of temptation in the wilderness, When your fathers tempted me, Proved me, and saw my work.
Page 54 - Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to GOD, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule, and all authority, and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
Page 157 - The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Page 233 - Who will render to every man according to his deeds; to them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life ; but unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil...
Page 109 - My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh : yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Page 104 - 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 169 - And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through. Be ye therefore ready also : for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
Page 209 - Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called To-day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Page 201 - Lord: 15 looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; " lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. " For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.