The Whole Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, Robert Leighton: To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author, Volume 2James Duncan, 1825 |
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... fear of this trouble ? The trouble is but in the world , but the peace is in Him , who weighs down thousands of worlds . So then , they do exceedingly mistake and misreckon , who would reconcile Christ and the world , who would have the ...
... fear of this trouble ? The trouble is but in the world , but the peace is in Him , who weighs down thousands of worlds . So then , they do exceedingly mistake and misreckon , who would reconcile Christ and the world , who would have the ...
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... nothing but truth . Hath he said , Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out ? John vi . 37. Then you need not fear , how unworthy and vile soever you may be ; do but come to Him , and you have His 8 A COMMENTARY UPON.
... nothing but truth . Hath he said , Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out ? John vi . 37. Then you need not fear , how unworthy and vile soever you may be ; do but come to Him , and you have His 8 A COMMENTARY UPON.
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... fear of that beforehand , that pressed a sweat of blood from him ? No , it was this burden of sin , the first of which was committed in the garden of Eden , that then began to be laid upon Him and fastened upon his shoulders in the ...
... fear of that beforehand , that pressed a sweat of blood from him ? No , it was this burden of sin , the first of which was committed in the garden of Eden , that then began to be laid upon Him and fastened upon his shoulders in the ...
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... fear of shame or punishment , or the check of an enlightened conscience ; and though by reason of these , he commit not the sin he would , yet he lives in it , be- cause he loves it , because he would commit it : as we say , the soul ...
... fear of shame or punishment , or the check of an enlightened conscience ; and though by reason of these , he commit not the sin he would , yet he lives in it , be- cause he loves it , because he would commit it : as we say , the soul ...
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... fear . They may set a good face on it , and speak big , and so cover the fear they cannot cure ; but certainly , they are a little ridi- culous , who would persuade men to be content to die , by rea- soning from the necessity and ...
... fear . They may set a good face on it , and speak big , and so cover the fear they cannot cure ; but certainly , they are a little ridi- culous , who would persuade men to be content to die , by rea- soning from the necessity and ...
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Page 506 - I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD ; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin.
Page 380 - For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God : and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God ? 18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Page 613 - For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office; so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
Page 541 - Surely every man walketh in a vain shew : surely they are disquieted in vain : he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. And now, LORD, what wait I for ? my hope is- in Thee.
Page 576 - Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Page 484 - But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.
Page 201 - For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit...
Page 520 - OUT of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.
Page 563 - Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Page 563 - Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.