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... OF GOD AS A SPIRIT . We cannot have an adequate or suitable concep- tion of God . He dwells in inaccessible light ; in- accessible to the acuteness of our fancy , as well as the weakness of our sense . If we could have 4 CHARNOCK :
... OF GOD AS A SPIRIT . We cannot have an adequate or suitable concep- tion of God . He dwells in inaccessible light ; in- accessible to the acuteness of our fancy , as well as the weakness of our sense . If we could have 4 CHARNOCK :
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... tion may and must rise higher : as when we see the draught of the heavens and earth in a globe , or a kingdom in a map , it helps our conceptions , but does not terminate them : we conceive them to be of a vast extent , far beyond that ...
... tion may and must rise higher : as when we see the draught of the heavens and earth in a globe , or a kingdom in a map , it helps our conceptions , but does not terminate them : we conceive them to be of a vast extent , far beyond that ...
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... tion . Hezekiah regarded not his deliverance , with- out the love of the deliverer ; In love to my soul thou hast delivered me . ( Isaiah xxxviii . 17. ) So doth God say , in love to my honour thou hast worshipped me . SPIRITUAL WORSHIP ...
... tion . Hezekiah regarded not his deliverance , with- out the love of the deliverer ; In love to my soul thou hast delivered me . ( Isaiah xxxviii . 17. ) So doth God say , in love to my honour thou hast worshipped me . SPIRITUAL WORSHIP ...
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... tion . The vessel must be melted to receive the mould it is designed for ; softened wax is fittest to receive the stamp , and a spiritually melted soul fittest to receive a spiritual impression . We cannot perform duty in an evangelical ...
... tion . The vessel must be melted to receive the mould it is designed for ; softened wax is fittest to receive the stamp , and a spiritually melted soul fittest to receive a spiritual impression . We cannot perform duty in an evangelical ...
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... fix it upon that which can always possess us , and be possessed by us ; upon an object that cannot deceive our affec- tion , and put it out of countenance by a dissolution . III . - IMMUTABILITY OF GOD . NECESSARY TO HIS 30 CHARNOCK :
... fix it upon that which can always possess us , and be possessed by us ; upon an object that cannot deceive our affec- tion , and put it out of countenance by a dissolution . III . - IMMUTABILITY OF GOD . NECESSARY TO HIS 30 CHARNOCK :
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Page 374 - Both young men, and maidens; old men and children: let them praise the name of the Lord: For his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.
Page 271 - Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price : neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing.
Page 251 - Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest? 50 Hath not my hand made all these things?
Page 105 - They shall abundantly utter The memory of Thy great goodness, And shall sing of Thy righteousness. THE LORD is gracious, and full of compassion ; Slow to anger, and of great mercy.
Page 278 - The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Page 362 - Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
Page 246 - ... .which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places., (far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named not only in this world, but also in that which is to come...
Page 334 - It is as high as heaven ; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
Page 199 - Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?' saith the Lord God: 'and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
Page 368 - And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen ; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month. Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them?