Gospel Sonnets: Or, Spiritual Songs, in Six Parts ... Concerning Creation and Redemption, Law and Gospel, Justification and Sanctification, Faith and Sense, Heaven and Earth |
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V , 1 , 1 , 3 , 4 Where you may see the believers are said to be nos under the law , but under grace .; and exhorted to fand faft in the liberty wherewith Chrift hath made them free ; and affured , that Christ is become of no effe & to ...
V , 1 , 1 , 3 , 4 Where you may see the believers are said to be nos under the law , but under grace .; and exhorted to fand faft in the liberty wherewith Chrift hath made them free ; and affured , that Christ is become of no effe & to ...
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... Chirnlide on the 5th of April said year , by the Reverend Mr. William Violand . He gave pretty early proofs of a great genius and fine fancy ; and several instances of a pious dispofeion and a so . lid way of reflecting on matters .
... Chirnlide on the 5th of April said year , by the Reverend Mr. William Violand . He gave pretty early proofs of a great genius and fine fancy ; and several instances of a pious dispofeion and a so . lid way of reflecting on matters .
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In which capaci . ty he exercised the talents which the Lord had graciously conferred on him , withiu the bounds of the said Presbytery , both in vacancies and settled congregations , to the great fatis . faction of his hearers ...
In which capaci . ty he exercised the talents which the Lord had graciously conferred on him , withiu the bounds of the said Presbytery , both in vacancies and settled congregations , to the great fatis . faction of his hearers ...
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... it may be said , that there are few perplexing doubts , or intricate cases , which the saints have , at any time , been Exercised with , that are not in some one or other of his sermons , very judiciously folved , and distinctly ...
... it may be said , that there are few perplexing doubts , or intricate cases , which the saints have , at any time , been Exercised with , that are not in some one or other of his sermons , very judiciously folved , and distinctly ...
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... The nuptial treaty with the worthy Lamb : Might ye but stoop th'unpolish'd muse to brook , And from a shrub an wholesome berry pluck ; Ye'd take encouragement from what is said , By gospel means to make the marriage - bed , ?
... The nuptial treaty with the worthy Lamb : Might ye but stoop th'unpolish'd muse to brook , And from a shrub an wholesome berry pluck ; Ye'd take encouragement from what is said , By gospel means to make the marriage - bed , ?
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Page 225 - Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old ? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born ? Jesus answered, Verily, verily I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 323 - Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
Page 259 - Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.
Page 193 - I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Page 235 - And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand ; and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, king of the Jews ! And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.
Page 211 - Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Page 166 - God; to comfort all that mourn ; to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
Page 312 - For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts : and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people...
Page 212 - But by the grace of God I am what I am; and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
Page 229 - As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father ; so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. This is that bread which came down from heaven : not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead : he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
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| Title | Gospel Sonnets: Or, Spiritual Songs, in Six Parts ... Concerning Creation and Redemption, Law and Gospel, Justification and Sanctification, Faith and Sense, Heaven and Earth |
| Author | Ralph Erskine |
| Publisher | J. and A. Duncan, booksellers, Glasgow, 1793 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 22 May 2007 |
| Length | 371 pages |
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