Discourses on Various Subjects, Volume 2Wells and Lilly, 1816 |
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... upon us himself through the curtains of a cloud , and he sends angels to espy us in all our ways , and permits the devil to winnow us and to accuse us , and erects a tribunal and witnesses 44 THE ENTAIL OF CURSES CUT OFF . Serm . III .
... upon us himself through the curtains of a cloud , and he sends angels to espy us in all our ways , and permits the devil to winnow us and to accuse us , and erects a tribunal and witnesses 44 THE ENTAIL OF CURSES CUT OFF . Serm . III .
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... devil accuses : but he sometimes accuses us falsely , either maliciously , or ignorantly , and we stand upright in that particular by innocence ; and sometimes by penitence ; and all this while our con- science is our friend . Sometimes ...
... devil accuses : but he sometimes accuses us falsely , either maliciously , or ignorantly , and we stand upright in that particular by innocence ; and sometimes by penitence ; and all this while our con- science is our friend . Sometimes ...
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... devils , good men and bad men , the eye of heaven , and eye of that eye , God himself , all watching lest we rob God of his honour , and ourselves of our hopes . For by this prime intention he hath chosen so to get his own glory , as ...
... devils , good men and bad men , the eye of heaven , and eye of that eye , God himself , all watching lest we rob God of his honour , and ourselves of our hopes . For by this prime intention he hath chosen so to get his own glory , as ...
Page 84
... devil : and after all this , what remains for God and for religion ? Oh , for that they will do well enough ; upon their death - bed they will think a few godly thoughts , they will send for a priest to minis- ter comfort to them , they ...
... devil : and after all this , what remains for God and for religion ? Oh , for that they will do well enough ; upon their death - bed they will think a few godly thoughts , they will send for a priest to minis- ter comfort to them , they ...
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... devil , than the deferring of repentance upon vain confidences , and lessening it in the extension of parts as well as intention of degrees , while we imagine that a few tears and scatterings of devotion are enough to expatiate the ...
... devil , than the deferring of repentance upon vain confidences , and lessening it in the extension of parts as well as intention of degrees , while we imagine that a few tears and scatterings of devotion are enough to expatiate the ...
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Page 101 - For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge ! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
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 26 - Lord, according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue : whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises : that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Page 74 - 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 114 - 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 14 - 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 100 - 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 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 187 - 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...
Page 430 - The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: 10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government.