Discourses on Various Subjects, Volume 2Wells and Lilly, 1816 |
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Page iv
... understanding that can consider at leisure . I re- member that a young gentleman of Athens , being to answer for his life , hired an orator to make his de- fence , and it pleased him well at his first reading , but when the young man by ...
... understanding that can consider at leisure . I re- member that a young gentleman of Athens , being to answer for his life , hired an orator to make his de- fence , and it pleased him well at his first reading , but when the young man by ...
Page vii
... understanding and because every thing diverts the sound , and every thing calls off the understanding , and the spirit of a man is truantly and trifling ; therefore it is , that what men hear does so little affect them , and so weakly ...
... understanding and because every thing diverts the sound , and every thing calls off the understanding , and the spirit of a man is truantly and trifling ; therefore it is , that what men hear does so little affect them , and so weakly ...
Page viii
... understand not . And that also is a second caution I desire all men would take . 2. That they may never trouble the affairs of preaching and hearing respectively , with admiring the person of any man . To admire a preacher , is such a ...
... understand not . And that also is a second caution I desire all men would take . 2. That they may never trouble the affairs of preaching and hearing respectively , with admiring the person of any man . To admire a preacher , is such a ...
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... , the dishonour that is in breaking our faith and telling a lie ; and understands things truly as they are ; that is , that charity is the greatest nobleness in the world ; that religion hath in it Serm . 1 . 11 OF THE SPIRIT OF GRACE .
... , the dishonour that is in breaking our faith and telling a lie ; and understands things truly as they are ; that is , that charity is the greatest nobleness in the world ; that religion hath in it Serm . 1 . 11 OF THE SPIRIT OF GRACE .
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... understand any thing to be pleasant but what shall lead thither ? Now what a vision can do , that the spirit doth certainly to them that en- tertain him . They that have him really , and not in pretence only , are certainly great ...
... understand any thing to be pleasant but what shall lead thither ? Now what a vision can do , that the spirit doth certainly to them that en- tertain him . They that have him really , and not in pretence only , are certainly great ...
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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.