Sermons Translated from the Original French of the Late Rev. James Saurin ..., Volume 1L. Nichols, 1803 |
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... endeavor , first , to give you as exact and adequate a notion as we can of christian divinity and morality , and from thence to infer , that you can neither see the beauty , nor reap the benefit of either of them , while you confine ...
... endeavor , first , to give you as exact and adequate a notion as we can of christian divinity and morality , and from thence to infer , that you can neither see the beauty , nor reap the benefit of either of them , while you confine ...
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... endeavor by extraordinary efforts to avert the anger of heaven ? The love of sensual pleasure turns away people's attention from all these maxims , and represents those who preach them as wild visionaries , or dry declaimers . The ...
... endeavor by extraordinary efforts to avert the anger of heaven ? The love of sensual pleasure turns away people's attention from all these maxims , and represents those who preach them as wild visionaries , or dry declaimers . The ...
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... endeavor to exculpate him by saying , the promiser is so opulent that a small sum with him is as great riches , and great riches are as a small sum . In like manner , to say that a thousand years with God are as one day , and one day as ...
... endeavor to exculpate him by saying , the promiser is so opulent that a small sum with him is as great riches , and great riches are as a small sum . In like manner , to say that a thousand years with God are as one day , and one day as ...
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... endeavor to impose on God and man , I saw thee . I penetra- ted all those labyrinths , I dissipated all those dark- nesses , I dived into all thy deep designs . Thou worldling , who , with a prudence truly in- fernal , hast the art of ...
... endeavor to impose on God and man , I saw thee . I penetra- ted all those labyrinths , I dissipated all those dark- nesses , I dived into all thy deep designs . Thou worldling , who , with a prudence truly in- fernal , hast the art of ...
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... endeavor to search into his conscience , where he may discover so much weakness , so much corruption , so much hardness , so many unclean sources overflowing with so many excesses , and let this idea strike each of you , God seeth me ...
... endeavor to search into his conscience , where he may discover so much weakness , so much corruption , so much hardness , so many unclean sources overflowing with so many excesses , and let this idea strike each of you , God seeth me ...
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Page 271 - Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
Page 142 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Page 101 - But beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Page 270 - For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words ; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more...
Page 100 - And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation ; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you ; as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Page 271 - See that ye refuse not him that speaketh ; for if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven...
Page 104 - Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils. 22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy ? are we stronger than he...
Page 289 - Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God*.
Page 293 - And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years...
Page 126 - Thou, even thou, art LORD alone: thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.