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... favour but deformity , misery , professed enmity ! It had been mercy enough in thee , that thou didst not damn the world ; but that thou shouldst love it , is more than mercy . It was thy great goodness to forbear the acts of just ...
... favour but deformity , misery , professed enmity ! It had been mercy enough in thee , that thou didst not damn the world ; but that thou shouldst love it , is more than mercy . It was thy great goodness to forbear the acts of just ...
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... favours , or chastise us with his loving corrections . If he speak good unto us- " Behold the servant of the Lord ; be it unto me according to thy word : " if evil- " It is the Lord , let him do whatsoever he will . " Here is ...
... favours , or chastise us with his loving corrections . If he speak good unto us- " Behold the servant of the Lord ; be it unto me according to thy word : " if evil- " It is the Lord , let him do whatsoever he will . " Here is ...
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... favours otherwise conveyed to us than by our supplications . The style of his dear ones is , his people that prayeth ; and his own style is , the God that heareth prayers . To him , therefore , doth the devout heart pour out all his ...
... favours otherwise conveyed to us than by our supplications . The style of his dear ones is , his people that prayeth ; and his own style is , the God that heareth prayers . To him , therefore , doth the devout heart pour out all his ...
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... favours , so that we have not them so much , as God in them ; which advanceth their worth a thousand - fold , and ... favour , that is bet- ter than life . Even we men are wont , out of our good nature , to esteem a benefit , not so much ...
... favours , so that we have not them so much , as God in them ; which advanceth their worth a thousand - fold , and ... favour , that is bet- ter than life . Even we men are wont , out of our good nature , to esteem a benefit , not so much ...
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... favours , so it often spreads them thankfully before him , and lays them forth ( so near as it may ) in the full dimensions , that so God may be no loser by him in any act of his beneficence . Here , therefore , every one of God's ...
... favours , so it often spreads them thankfully before him , and lays them forth ( so near as it may ) in the full dimensions , that so God may be no loser by him in any act of his beneficence . Here , therefore , every one of God's ...
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Page 292 - Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth ? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Page 234 - Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
Page 223 - Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone...
Page 57 - And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name.
Page 69 - Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
Page 10 - For the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead...
Page 204 - But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ...
Page 39 - Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.
Page 232 - ... in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak ? who is offended, and I burn not?
Page 228 - ... grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ : From whom the whole body fitly joined together, and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body, unto the edifying of itself in love.