Discourses on Various Subjects, Volume 2Wells and Lilly, 1816 |
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Page v
... charity , and therefore will not now so readily be censured for vanity , if I make use of all the ways can to minister to the good of souls . But because my intentions are fair in themselves , and I hope are acceptable to God , and will ...
... charity , and therefore will not now so readily be censured for vanity , if I make use of all the ways can to minister to the good of souls . But because my intentions are fair in themselves , and I hope are acceptable to God , and will ...
Page vi
... charity should come by faith , and by both together we may be saved . For a man's ears ( as Plutarch calls them ) are virtutum ansae , by them we are to hold and apprehend virtue ; and unless we use them as men do vessels of dishonour ...
... charity should come by faith , and by both together we may be saved . For a man's ears ( as Plutarch calls them ) are virtutum ansae , by them we are to hold and apprehend virtue ; and unless we use them as men do vessels of dishonour ...
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... charity is to be beloved , his ability is to be accounted upon another stock , and for it the preacher and the hearer are both to give God thanks ; but nothing is due to the man for that , save only that it is the rather to be employed ...
... charity is to be beloved , his ability is to be accounted upon another stock , and for it the preacher and the hearer are both to give God thanks ; but nothing is due to the man for that , save only that it is the rather to be employed ...
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... charity too ; that supposes an absence of some good , but this is a direct affliction and calamity . 4. And after all this , if the preacher be not des- pised , he may proceed cheerfully in doing his duty , and the hearer may have some ...
... charity too ; that supposes an absence of some good , but this is a direct affliction and calamity . 4. And after all this , if the preacher be not des- pised , he may proceed cheerfully in doing his duty , and the hearer may have some ...
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... charity enlarged . They that are other- wise affected do not do their duty : but if they be so minded as they ought , I and all men of my employ- ment shall be secured against the tongues and faces of men who are ingeniosi in alieno ...
... charity enlarged . They that are other- wise affected do not do their duty : but if they be so minded as they ought , I and all men of my employ- ment shall be secured against the tongues and faces of men who are ingeniosi in alieno ...
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Page xv - But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now, if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.
Page 164 - 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 76 - Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace : And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood ; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.
Page 83 - And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD God of Israel and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me.
Page 102 - But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Page xv - Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
Page 181 - Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts? And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
Page 116 - Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith ; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
Page 83 - God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
Page 119 - Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works.