Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence Display'd: Or, The Folly of Their Teaching Discovered from the Books, Sermons, and Prayers; and Some Remarks on Mr. Rule's Late Vindication of the Kirk, Interspers'd with Some Genuine Adventures, in Love, &c

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Van Anker, 1738 - 126 pages

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Page 90 - How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves? They break in pieces thy people, O Lord, and afflict thine heritage. They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
Page 97 - Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
Page 111 - My son, fear thou the LORD and the king : and meddle not with them that are given to change...
Page 111 - Some therefore cried one thing, and some another : for the assembly was confused, and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together.
Page 28 - Keep therefore and do them ; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely, this great nation is a wise and understanding people. For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for? and what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
Page 33 - Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff. Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.
Page 99 - The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid. 20 Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
Page 112 - Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever.
Page 113 - I shall not nibble at niceties, nor ingeminate prolixities, but with the sword of brevity, shall cut the gordian knot of obscurity, and so proceed to give you the genuine purport of this mellifluous and aromatical subject, calculated allenarly for the meridian of that microcosm man ; and this was their ordinary before an unlearned Congregation.

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