Sermons on several subjects, Volume 1 |
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... give it a new direction , and to turn it upon God , as its highest and properest and most adequate object . If then we wish to know still more clearly in what the love of God confifts ; and what share of it we ourfelves poffefs ; we ...
... give it a new direction , and to turn it upon God , as its highest and properest and most adequate object . If then we wish to know still more clearly in what the love of God confifts ; and what share of it we ourfelves poffefs ; we ...
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... give , and nothing but guilt can take away ; commit- ting yourselves and all your concerns to the great Difpofer of every human event ; with a perfect confidence in his infinite wisdom and goodness , and a firm perfuafion that every ...
... give , and nothing but guilt can take away ; commit- ting yourselves and all your concerns to the great Difpofer of every human event ; with a perfect confidence in his infinite wisdom and goodness , and a firm perfuafion that every ...
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... give no demonstrative proof that their perfuafion is well - grounded , and their pro- feffions fincere . If they have the form of godliness , they too commonly want the power of it . Their piety is in general exterior and local ...
... give no demonstrative proof that their perfuafion is well - grounded , and their pro- feffions fincere . If they have the form of godliness , they too commonly want the power of it . Their piety is in general exterior and local ...
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... give us the four following distinct pro → pofitions , That light is come into the world . That men have preferred darkness to this light . That the reafon is because their deeds are evil . And that the confequence of this choice will ...
... give us the four following distinct pro → pofitions , That light is come into the world . That men have preferred darkness to this light . That the reafon is because their deeds are evil . And that the confequence of this choice will ...
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... gives life , health , and vigour , to God's new creation ; it makes the " us . day of falvation " to dawn upon us ; it opens to us 2 Tim . i , 10. † 2 Cor . vi . 2 . the 1 . the profpect of another and a better life ; " 24 II , SERMON.
... gives life , health , and vigour , to God's new creation ; it makes the " us . day of falvation " to dawn upon us ; it opens to us 2 Tim . i , 10. † 2 Cor . vi . 2 . the 1 . the profpect of another and a better life ; " 24 II , SERMON.
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Page 377 - The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Page 247 - Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men...
Page 71 - Thus saith the Lord , Hast thou killed , and also taken possession ? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
Page 257 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Page 219 - For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom ; but we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness ; but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
Page 32 - And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds •were evil. For every one that doth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Page 356 - For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
Page 319 - Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice ; and be ye kind one to another, tender hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Page 171 - Ye lust, and have not ; ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain ; ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not ; ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Page 407 - Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he...