Sermons, Volume 4T.Cadell and W.Davies; F.C. and J.Rivington; Nichols, Son, and Bentley; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; ... [and 11 others in London]: and A.Constable and Company; Manners and Miller; and J.Fairbairn, Edinburgh: and G.Clarke, Aberdeen., 1818 - 475 pages |
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... hope i cr as to us . To us the sun no longer " with its usual brightness . No " cheerfulness invests the face of N " On every object a sad gloom a " to rest ; and every employment " is become an oppressive burden . ” the feelings of ...
... hope i cr as to us . To us the sun no longer " with its usual brightness . No " cheerfulness invests the face of N " On every object a sad gloom a " to rest ; and every employment " is become an oppressive burden . ” the feelings of ...
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... hope . While he feels his sorrows as a man , he should also study to bear them like a man , with fortitude ; and not abandon himself to feeble and fruitless melancholy . Let him have recourse to a strenuous dis- charge of the duties of ...
... hope . While he feels his sorrows as a man , he should also study to bear them like a man , with fortitude ; and not abandon himself to feeble and fruitless melancholy . Let him have recourse to a strenuous dis- charge of the duties of ...
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... hope that better days may yet arise . It is good for persons in such situations to remark that , though Job was for at long while severely tried by a variety of distresses , yet his condition was not left finally unhappy . On the ...
... hope that better days may yet arise . It is good for persons in such situations to remark that , though Job was for at long while severely tried by a variety of distresses , yet his condition was not left finally unhappy . On the ...
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... hope to make it appear , that the words of the text afford a most enlarged and instructive view of religion in all its chief parts . The Apostle pronounces charity to be the end or scope of the commandment , that is , of the law of God ...
... hope to make it appear , that the words of the text afford a most enlarged and instructive view of religion in all its chief parts . The Apostle pronounces charity to be the end or scope of the commandment , that is , of the law of God ...
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... hope . This deserves to be seriously considered by those who are apt to undervalue charity as an appen- dage of what they contemptuously call Morality ; while they confine true reli- gion to some favourite tenets and obser- vances of ...
... hope . This deserves to be seriously considered by those who are apt to undervalue charity as an appen- dage of what they contemptuously call Morality ; while they confine true reli- gion to some favourite tenets and obser- vances of ...
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Page 293 - Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more ? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?
Page 142 - Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? and who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Page 388 - For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
Page 138 - And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying. Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
Page 354 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Page 343 - Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who according to His abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead...
Page 135 - He feedeth on ashes : a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand...
Page 54 - For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow?
Page 155 - Christ, and every one members one of another having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching; or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
Page 133 - Oh that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.