The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher: In Plymouth Church, BrooklynJ.B. Ford & Company, 1871 |
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... sense as that . If the connection between the soul and God were to stop , these things would never take place ; but He works together with us to will and to do these things . No man ever came to a state of Christian eminence by waiting ...
... sense as that . If the connection between the soul and God were to stop , these things would never take place ; but He works together with us to will and to do these things . No man ever came to a state of Christian eminence by waiting ...
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... sense of that term . You may set up an artificial ideal of perfection ; you may make it out of some question of obedience to law ; a man may think himself to be perfect ; but no man , to my judgment , is perfect who is unripe . And a ...
... sense of that term . You may set up an artificial ideal of perfection ; you may make it out of some question of obedience to law ; a man may think himself to be perfect ; but no man , to my judgment , is perfect who is unripe . And a ...
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... sense and moral sense . They were once well , but now Where did that ill health come They will tell you that they What has become of their Go see the other end . Stand with me and look into the brilliant saloon . Ye that have seen what ...
... sense and moral sense . They were once well , but now Where did that ill health come They will tell you that they What has become of their Go see the other end . Stand with me and look into the brilliant saloon . Ye that have seen what ...
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... sense . " And thou mourn at the last , when thy flesh and thy body are con- sumed , and say , How have I hated instruction , and my heart despised reproof , and have not obeyed the voice of my teachers , nor inclined mine ear to them ...
... sense . " And thou mourn at the last , when thy flesh and thy body are con- sumed , and say , How have I hated instruction , and my heart despised reproof , and have not obeyed the voice of my teachers , nor inclined mine ear to them ...
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... sense requires an aux- iliary emotion to make it work ; but at last the man's conscience is found . His reason did not find it . His reflections did not awaken it . His love did not stimulate it . All the ordinary motives did not ...
... sense requires an aux- iliary emotion to make it work ; but at last the man's conscience is found . His reason did not find it . His reflections did not awaken it . His love did not stimulate it . All the ordinary motives did not ...
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Page 45 - If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons ; for what son is he whom the Father chasteneth not ? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards and not sons.
Page 18 - Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like ? They are like unto children sitting in the market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced : we have mourned unto you, and ye have not wept.
Page 117 - For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope. Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Page 189 - He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
Page 223 - When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them ; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
Page 6 - Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned...
Page 142 - For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not ; but the publicans and the harlots believed him; and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.
Page 17 - For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women, there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist : but he that is least in the kingdom of God, is greater than he.