The Whole Works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel ...A. Weir & A. M'Lean, 1770 |
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... poor man in his collapfed ftate , yet it is now his wisdom to improve fuch helps ; and whilft others , by the abuse of the creatures , are furthering their perdition , to be , by the fpiritual improvement of them , promoting our own ...
... poor man in his collapfed ftate , yet it is now his wisdom to improve fuch helps ; and whilft others , by the abuse of the creatures , are furthering their perdition , to be , by the fpiritual improvement of them , promoting our own ...
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... poor cruft , To feed his tired carcafs : If himself Have , by his carking , got a little pelf , Leave it he muft , to one he knows not whom , And then must come to an eternal doom ; And hear his poor neglected wretched foul Tell him at ...
... poor cruft , To feed his tired carcafs : If himself Have , by his carking , got a little pelf , Leave it he muft , to one he knows not whom , And then must come to an eternal doom ; And hear his poor neglected wretched foul Tell him at ...
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... poor fer vants , in the work of the miniftry . 11. Prop . The work about which husbandmen employ their fervants in the field , is toilfome and spending , you fee they come home at night as weary as they can draw their legs after them ...
... poor fer vants , in the work of the miniftry . 11. Prop . The work about which husbandmen employ their fervants in the field , is toilfome and spending , you fee they come home at night as weary as they can draw their legs after them ...
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... , that I may truly fay , I offer to God what coft me nothing . Wo is me , poor wretch ! How is the judgment of Korah fpiritually executed upon me The earth opened her mouth , and swallowed up his The Heavenly Use of Eearthly Things . 31.
... , that I may truly fay , I offer to God what coft me nothing . Wo is me , poor wretch ! How is the judgment of Korah fpiritually executed upon me The earth opened her mouth , and swallowed up his The Heavenly Use of Eearthly Things . 31.
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... poor fouls have been Enrich'd for ever . Even as you fee A prince's favourite , upon the knee , Can in an hour's time more wealth obtain , Than all your lives by labour you can gain . Pray'r - gains are great , and quick returns are ...
... poor fouls have been Enrich'd for ever . Even as you fee A prince's favourite , upon the knee , Can in an hour's time more wealth obtain , Than all your lives by labour you can gain . Pray'r - gains are great , and quick returns are ...
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Popular passages
Page 19 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Page 107 - Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts : and then shall every man have praise of God.
Page 449 - Ye have sown much and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink ; ye clothe you, but there is none warm ; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
Page 40 - Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD : for great is the glory of the LORD.
Page 23 - And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal : that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
Page 373 - To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Page 450 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Page 393 - For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Page 74 - Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
Page 425 - For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.