A Homiletic Encyclopaedia of Illustrations in Theology and Morals. ...Funk & Wagnalls, 1885 - 892 pages |
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... SCRIPTURE . Robent Lithin SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY BERTRAM , = Compiler of " A Dictionary of Foetical Illustrations , " & " Great works are not in everybody's reach , and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them ...
... SCRIPTURE . Robent Lithin SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY BERTRAM , = Compiler of " A Dictionary of Foetical Illustrations , " & " Great works are not in everybody's reach , and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them ...
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... Scripture . On this account , they constitute one of the most valuable Commentaries ever published . Many a brief clause referred to in the Textual Index contains material for effective and useful paragraphs . He is the useful preacher ...
... Scripture . On this account , they constitute one of the most valuable Commentaries ever published . Many a brief clause referred to in the Textual Index contains material for effective and useful paragraphs . He is the useful preacher ...
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... Scripture , change of life , alteration of habits , renewal of heart . This is the aim of all sorrow . The consequences of sin are meant to wean from sin . The penalty annexed to it is , in the first instance , corrective , not penal ...
... Scripture , change of life , alteration of habits , renewal of heart . This is the aim of all sorrow . The consequences of sin are meant to wean from sin . The penalty annexed to it is , in the first instance , corrective , not penal ...
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... Scripture directeth us unto ; here are not the temptations nor the tribulations that we the saints of God in this road , but only the print of must pass through : we see little or no footing of Dives ' feet : somewhere we have missed ...
... Scripture directeth us unto ; here are not the temptations nor the tribulations that we the saints of God in this road , but only the print of must pass through : we see little or no footing of Dives ' feet : somewhere we have missed ...
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... ScriptURE CONCERNING IT ARE TO BE STUDIED . ( 387. ) It is necessary to know what God hath revealed concerning the way of pardon by Christ : it is impossible to know more than He has revealed . if men would forbear to explicate further ...
... ScriptURE CONCERNING IT ARE TO BE STUDIED . ( 387. ) It is necessary to know what God hath revealed concerning the way of pardon by Christ : it is impossible to know more than He has revealed . if men would forbear to explicate further ...
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Page 396 - For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Page 222 - And all that believed were together, and had all things common ; and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
Page 122 - Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
Page 117 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 56 - HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Page 280 - As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, So panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God : When shall I come and appear before God...
Page 95 - For I say unto you, That unto every one which hath shall be given; and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away from him.
Page 13 - And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Page 373 - Omnipotent. Ay me ! they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vain, Under what torments inwardly I groan, While they adore me on the throne of Hell. 'With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall, only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds. But say I could repent, and could obtain By act of grace my former state ; how soon Would height recall high thoughts, how soon unsay What feigned submission swore ! ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.
Page 389 - Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made ; well : but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace ; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands...