Sermons on Various Subjects, Evangelical, Devotional and Practical: Adapted to the Promotion of Christian Piety, Family Religion, and Youthful Virtue, Volume 1by Isaiah Thomas, Jun.; Sold at his respective bookstores in Boston and Worcester., 1809 |
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... never enjoyed them , you never would have desired . Strike out also your comparative evils , which owe their existence to an apprehension , that your neighbours possess bene- fits denied to you - benefits , which you would not have ...
... never enjoyed them , you never would have desired . Strike out also your comparative evils , which owe their existence to an apprehension , that your neighbours possess bene- fits denied to you - benefits , which you would not have ...
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... never discern . " What God does we know not now , but shall know hereafter . " We see , or think we see , worldly good and evil distributed with great inequality . Some are rich , and others poor . Health of body and success in bu ...
... never discern . " What God does we know not now , but shall know hereafter . " We see , or think we see , worldly good and evil distributed with great inequality . Some are rich , and others poor . Health of body and success in bu ...
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... never sus- pect his ways are unequal . Let us never indulge an impatient , murmuring spirit ; but learn in every state to be content . 3. We see the proper foundation of submission and gratitude under all the dealings of God . It is a ...
... never sus- pect his ways are unequal . Let us never indulge an impatient , murmuring spirit ; but learn in every state to be content . 3. We see the proper foundation of submission and gratitude under all the dealings of God . It is a ...
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... never opens his mouth any more because of his ' shame , when God is pacified toward him for all that he has done . Let us consider and know ourselves , and contem- plate the ways of God's providence and grace , and we shall admire his ...
... never opens his mouth any more because of his ' shame , when God is pacified toward him for all that he has done . Let us consider and know ourselves , and contem- plate the ways of God's providence and grace , and we shall admire his ...
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... never find them agreeable to our wish- es . But if we believe that the divine government is good , and will extend to all nations and ages , looks forward to the most distant connexions of things , and moves the whole chain of events ...
... never find them agreeable to our wish- es . But if we believe that the divine government is good , and will extend to all nations and ages , looks forward to the most distant connexions of things , and moves the whole chain of events ...
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Page 54 - Thou hast ordained ; what is man, that Thou art mindful of him ? and the son of man, that Thou visitest him ? For Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet...
Page 85 - I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen : but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.
Page 352 - And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.
Page 38 - Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy ; that they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate, laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Page 37 - For the love of Christ constraineth us —because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead ; and that he died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him who died for them and rose again.
Page 398 - And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it : I pray thee have me excused.
Page 327 - For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of GOD, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Page 319 - Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts : for the Coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
Page 382 - Go to now, ye that say, 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. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Page 298 - And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure. They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.