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Page 117
... case of charity . It is a divine command to improve our worldly fubftance for the honour of God , Prov . iii . 9. and to relieve the wants of the poor and needy , according to our ability , and their need . God has made us ftewards ...
... case of charity . It is a divine command to improve our worldly fubftance for the honour of God , Prov . iii . 9. and to relieve the wants of the poor and needy , according to our ability , and their need . God has made us ftewards ...
Page 143
... case of the apparition of Samuel , 1 Sam . xxviii . 4. The Lord has made the revelations concerning the other world , but fparingly in the word , from whence we get our notices of it . There is as much there difcovered about it , as is ...
... case of the apparition of Samuel , 1 Sam . xxviii . 4. The Lord has made the revelations concerning the other world , but fparingly in the word , from whence we get our notices of it . There is as much there difcovered about it , as is ...
Page 177
... case of ill example , Matth . xviii . 7. They who in words , actions , or behaviour , fet an ill copy to others , they will not readily in a finful world mifs fome to write after them , following their criminal example . But the more ...
... case of ill example , Matth . xviii . 7. They who in words , actions , or behaviour , fet an ill copy to others , they will not readily in a finful world mifs fome to write after them , following their criminal example . But the more ...
Page 258
... case , being the effect of a transport of paffion . But it is a good day to the relations , notwithstanding the bitter- nefs mixed with it , as our Saviour obferves , John xvi . 21. " A woman when she is in travail , hath sorrow ...
... case , being the effect of a transport of paffion . But it is a good day to the relations , notwithstanding the bitter- nefs mixed with it , as our Saviour obferves , John xvi . 21. " A woman when she is in travail , hath sorrow ...
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Thomas Boston. Laftly , But it will not be fo in the case of an ill spent life . In that cafe the birth - day will ftill keep the pre- ference , it will be better than the dying - day , tho ' in the mean time it would have been beft of ...
Thomas Boston. Laftly , But it will not be fo in the case of an ill spent life . In that cafe the birth - day will ftill keep the pre- ference , it will be better than the dying - day , tho ' in the mean time it would have been beft of ...
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Page 104 - And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things ; but one thing is needful. And Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
Page 186 - After this I beheld, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands ; And cried with a loud voice ; saying; Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
Page 39 - Two things have I required of thee ; deny me them not before I die: remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, "Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 393 - When he slew them, then they sought him : and they returned and inquired early after God. 35 And they remembered that God was their Rock, and the high God their Redeemer.
Page 309 - For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts : and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people...
Page 87 - Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida ! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Page 102 - By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
Page 379 - For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Page 102 - He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
Page 13 - These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.