A Christian Directory, Or, A Body of Practical Divinity and Cases of Conscience: Christian economics, (or family duties)Richard Edwards, 1825 - Christian life |
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... thou domineer and have the highest place ? Had not Christ a place to lay his head on ? and must thou needs have thy adorned , well - furnished rooms ? Must thou needs brave it out in the most fantastic fashion , instead of thy Saviour's ...
... thou domineer and have the highest place ? Had not Christ a place to lay his head on ? and must thou needs have thy adorned , well - furnished rooms ? Must thou needs brave it out in the most fantastic fashion , instead of thy Saviour's ...
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... thou wilt see cause for great humiliation . ' If thy body were full of toads and serpents , and thou couldst see or feel them crawling in thee , wouldst thou then be proud ? Why , so many sins are ten thousand fold worse , and should ...
... thou wilt see cause for great humiliation . ' If thy body were full of toads and serpents , and thou couldst see or feel them crawling in thee , wouldst thou then be proud ? Why , so many sins are ten thousand fold worse , and should ...
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... thou be fit for pride , forbid diseases to touch thy flesh , or stain thy beauty ; do not be sick , nor weak , nor pained : let not the worm and corruption be thy guests . Or if thou be so poor a thing , as cannot hinder any of these ...
... thou be fit for pride , forbid diseases to touch thy flesh , or stain thy beauty ; do not be sick , nor weak , nor pained : let not the worm and corruption be thy guests . Or if thou be so poor a thing , as cannot hinder any of these ...
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... thou hast another world to live in and a far longer life to make provision for and that thou must be in heaven or hell for ever . This is true , whether thou believe it or not : and thou hast no time but this to make all thy preparation ...
... thou hast another world to live in and a far longer life to make provision for and that thou must be in heaven or hell for ever . This is true , whether thou believe it or not : and thou hast no time but this to make all thy preparation ...
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... thou art a man undone for ever : and therefore it is for that that thou must care and labour . Believe unfeignedly that thou must dwell for ever in heaven or hell , as thou makest thy preparation here , and consider of this as becometh ...
... thou art a man undone for ever : and therefore it is for that that thou must care and labour . Believe unfeignedly that thou must dwell for ever in heaven or hell , as thou makest thy preparation here , and consider of this as becometh ...
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Page 307 - Put not your trust in princes, Nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish.
Page 296 - A soft answer turneth away wrath : but grievous words stir up anger.
Page 569 - And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God ; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them ; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Page 289 - For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Page 137 - WATCH, THEREFORE, FOR YE KNOW NOT WHAT HOUR YOUR LORD DOTH COME. But know this, that if the good man of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore, BE YE ALSO READY : FOR IN SUCH AN HOUR AS YE THINK NOT, THE SON OF MAN COMETH.
Page 157 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 317 - If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
Page 187 - SPIRIT in the inner man ; that CHRIST may dwell in your hearts by faith ; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend, with all saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height ; and to know the love of CHRIST, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of GOD.
Page 478 - Jews ; who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us. and they please not God, and are contrary to all men : forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles, that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway; for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.