Sermons delivered in the chapel of the Foundling hospital, London1834 - 80 pages |
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... knowledge or ignorance of which would be equally useless or harmless to any man , who , like Cornelius , acted up to the light which he had received , and humbly walked according to the precepts which he acknowledged . Upon such a ...
... knowledge or ignorance of which would be equally useless or harmless to any man , who , like Cornelius , acted up to the light which he had received , and humbly walked according to the precepts which he acknowledged . Upon such a ...
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... knowledge , a devotion , a charity , which many who call themselves Christians would do well to imitate many among us would consider him to have attained nearly the summit of moral excellence and THE CASE OF CORNELIUS . 13.
... knowledge , a devotion , a charity , which many who call themselves Christians would do well to imitate many among us would consider him to have attained nearly the summit of moral excellence and THE CASE OF CORNELIUS . 13.
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... knowledge , and all their cultivation of virtue , still came short of the true knowledge of God , still failed to accomplish the full demands of holiness , what must have been the condition of those dark places of the earth , where the ...
... knowledge , and all their cultivation of virtue , still came short of the true knowledge of God , still failed to accomplish the full demands of holiness , what must have been the condition of those dark places of the earth , where the ...
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... cannot pretend to determine to what degree of spiritual blessedness those may be admitted , who could not certainly have acquired all the spiritual knowledge of which the soul is capable . There is THE CASE OF CORNELIUS . 15.
... cannot pretend to determine to what degree of spiritual blessedness those may be admitted , who could not certainly have acquired all the spiritual knowledge of which the soul is capable . There is THE CASE OF CORNELIUS . 15.
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... knowledge ? Would he have been accepted with God , had he cast aside the promises of mercy through Christ , the remission of sins through his name , and claimed acceptance on the ground of his alms , his fasting , his prayers ? Yet this ...
... knowledge ? Would he have been accepted with God , had he cast aside the promises of mercy through Christ , the remission of sins through his name , and claimed acceptance on the ground of his alms , his fasting , his prayers ? Yet this ...
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Page 336 - For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called : but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise ; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
Page 181 - And they came to the place which God had told him of ; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
Page 350 - And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests ; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
Page 178 - By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, 18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: 19 Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
Page 192 - Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?
Page 260 - For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth. to the purifying of the flesh : How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Page 287 - But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen; and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
Page 282 - But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
Page 211 - Original sin standeth not in the following of Adam — as the Pelagians do vainly talk — but it is the fault and corruption of the nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam ; whereby man is very far gone from original righteousness, and is of his own nature inclined to evil, so that th.3 Flesh lusteth always contrary to the Spirit; and therefore, in every person born into this world, it deserveth God's wrath and damnation.
Page ix - For thus saith the Lord of Hosts, yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land : and I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory saith the Lord of Hosts.