The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher: In Plymouth Church, BrooklynJ.B. Ford & Company, 1871 |
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Page 33
... sorrow , who throw themselves down upon despair itself ; and yet until they were incarcerated nothing troubled them , though they were doing all the wrongs that a man could well commit . There are many persons in whom conscience is not ...
... sorrow , who throw themselves down upon despair itself ; and yet until they were incarcerated nothing troubled them , though they were doing all the wrongs that a man could well commit . There are many persons in whom conscience is not ...
Page 35
... sorrow ! If wicked men do not come to their full punishment in this life , they come to much pain , frequently . They come to a moral sensibility of the harm that wrong inflicts . And there is to come a time when no man shall escape ...
... sorrow ! If wicked men do not come to their full punishment in this life , they come to much pain , frequently . They come to a moral sensibility of the harm that wrong inflicts . And there is to come a time when no man shall escape ...
Page 37
... sorrow , in prosperity , under all experiences of life , we find thee to be our strength , and peace , and joy . Thou canst make up to us in thine own presence , all our outward losses . What time we are willing to renounce everything ...
... sorrow , in prosperity , under all experiences of life , we find thee to be our strength , and peace , and joy . Thou canst make up to us in thine own presence , all our outward losses . What time we are willing to renounce everything ...
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... sorrow , in the hand of God . In every trouble , and in every temptation of trouble , look to that side of the divine nature -not at the clouds ; not at the mountain that burned with fire ; not at that which was clothed with darkness ...
... sorrow , in the hand of God . In every trouble , and in every temptation of trouble , look to that side of the divine nature -not at the clouds ; not at the mountain that burned with fire ; not at that which was clothed with darkness ...
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... sorrow , and penitence , and despondency , and aspiration , and yearning , indicates that you are ignoble , and out of the divine family . Hence , they who pity men that suffer a great deal about their re- ligion , are themselves to be ...
... sorrow , and penitence , and despondency , and aspiration , and yearning , indicates that you are ignoble , and out of the divine family . Hence , they who pity men that suffer a great deal about their re- ligion , are themselves to be ...
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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.