Discourses on Various Subjects, Volume 2Wells and Lilly, 1816 |
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... angels , the wine of elect souls , is fit to succeed the prodigal at his ban- quet of sin and husks , and to be partaker of the table of devils : but all they who have God's spirit love to feast at the supper of the Lamb , and have no ...
... angels , the wine of elect souls , is fit to succeed the prodigal at his ban- quet of sin and husks , and to be partaker of the table of devils : but all they who have God's spirit love to feast at the supper of the Lamb , and have no ...
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... angel is . And this state is expressed by the apostle , calling it [ the earnest of the spirit : ] that is , here it is begun , and given us as an antepast of glory , and a principle of grace ; but then we shall have it in plenitudine ...
... angel is . And this state is expressed by the apostle , calling it [ the earnest of the spirit : ] that is , here it is begun , and given us as an antepast of glory , and a principle of grace ; but then we shall have it in plenitudine ...
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... angels for ever , in felicity so great that we have not now capacities to understand it , our heart is not big enough to think it ; there cannot in the world be a greater inducement to engage us , a greater argument to oblige us to do ...
... angels for ever , in felicity so great that we have not now capacities to understand it , our heart is not big enough to think it ; there cannot in the world be a greater inducement to engage us , a greater argument to oblige us to do ...
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... angels with fiery swords to drive us from it , he hath employed advocates to plead against it , he hath made laws and decrees against it , he hath dis- patched prophets to warn us of it , and hath establish- ed an order of men , men of ...
... angels with fiery swords to drive us from it , he hath employed advocates to plead against it , he hath made laws and decrees against it , he hath dis- patched prophets to warn us of it , and hath establish- ed an order of men , men of ...
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... angels , we so loath the bread of heaven , that any temptation will make us return to our fetters and our bondage . And if we do not tempt ourselves , yet we do not resist a temptation ; or if we pray against it , we desire not to be ...
... angels , we so loath the bread of heaven , that any temptation will make us return to our fetters and our bondage . And if we do not tempt ourselves , yet we do not resist a temptation ; or if we pray against it , we desire not to be ...
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Page 162 - 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 244 - But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
Page 384 - ... according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not...
Page 94 - Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us...
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 16 - Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
Page 1 - 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 372 - Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Page 180 - Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another : and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of Hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels ; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
Page 180 - And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels ; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked : between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.