Sermons, Volume 2Waugh & Innes, 1828 |
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... blessings would not descend were we better . Were we innocent , can we doubt that our thorns and briars would bloom with the beauty of paradise ? Were we of an angelic disposi- tion , can we hesitate to believe that earth would be ...
... blessings would not descend were we better . Were we innocent , can we doubt that our thorns and briars would bloom with the beauty of paradise ? Were we of an angelic disposi- tion , can we hesitate to believe that earth would be ...
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... blessings and hopes ; from the perfect nature of his law , and its absolute tendency to glorify him , and to produce the complete happiness of his immense and eternal kingdom . Of such importance is this tendency , as to justify the ...
... blessings and hopes ; from the perfect nature of his law , and its absolute tendency to glorify him , and to produce the complete happiness of his immense and eternal kingdom . Of such importance is this tendency , as to justify the ...
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... blessings . Amusements procure none of these blessings , but either prevent or destroy them all ; and have no other value , even when innocent , and confined within rational bounds , except as they yield us a trifling degree of ...
... blessings . Amusements procure none of these blessings , but either prevent or destroy them all ; and have no other value , even when innocent , and confined within rational bounds , except as they yield us a trifling degree of ...
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... blessings ? Are you more constant or more fervent in your prayers ? Does the does his ear hear , proofs of any such reformation ? Does he eye of God see , not , on the contrary , behold you seriously engaged about no- thing but pleasure ...
... blessings ? Are you more constant or more fervent in your prayers ? Does the does his ear hear , proofs of any such reformation ? Does he eye of God see , not , on the contrary , behold you seriously engaged about no- thing but pleasure ...
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... blessings of immortality ? How deplorable will it be to die at the end of such a life ? How dreadful to recite before your Judge an account made up of amusements ! How melancholy to remember , in the future world , that for amusements ...
... blessings of immortality ? How deplorable will it be to die at the end of such a life ? How dreadful to recite before your Judge an account made up of amusements ! How melancholy to remember , in the future world , that for amusements ...
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Page 272 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it ? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes...
Page 466 - And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory : and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name.
Page vii - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 31 - Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
Page 466 - But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not : for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name ; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee ; . and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee : when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned ; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour : I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia...
Page 80 - And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
Page ix - And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it : and if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
Page 462 - Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, ** And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page 184 - Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
Page 199 - He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he that is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.