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... labours are profitable , our humiliations are acts of obedience , and our alms of charity , and our marriages are chaste ; and whether we eat or drink , ' sleep or wake , we may do all to the glory of God , ' by a direct intuition , or ...
... labours are profitable , our humiliations are acts of obedience , and our alms of charity , and our marriages are chaste ; and whether we eat or drink , ' sleep or wake , we may do all to the glory of God , ' by a direct intuition , or ...
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... a wickedness , for tempta- tion and infirmity are always too near us ; ' but God hath made care and sweat , prudence and diligence , experience and watchfulness , wisdom and labour at home , and good 8 OF GROWTH IN GRACE .
... a wickedness , for tempta- tion and infirmity are always too near us ; ' but God hath made care and sweat , prudence and diligence , experience and watchfulness , wisdom and labour at home , and good 8 OF GROWTH IN GRACE .
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... labour at home , and good guides abroad , to be instruments and means to purchase virtue . The way is long and difficult at first ; but in the progress and pursuit , we find all the knots made plain , and the rough ways made smooth ...
... labour at home , and good guides abroad , to be instruments and means to purchase virtue . The way is long and difficult at first ; but in the progress and pursuit , we find all the knots made plain , and the rough ways made smooth ...
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... labour be more cheerful and more active , and if religion returns oftener , and stays longer in the same expressions , and leaves more satisfaction upon the spirit . Are your com- munions more frequent ? and , when they are , do you ...
... labour be more cheerful and more active , and if religion returns oftener , and stays longer in the same expressions , and leaves more satisfaction upon the spirit . Are your com- munions more frequent ? and , when they are , do you ...
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... labour for dispensations , and love God and religion less and less , till their old age , instead of a crown of their virtue and perse- verance , ends in levity and unprofitable courses ; light and useless as the tufted feathers upon ...
... labour for dispensations , and love God and religion less and less , till their old age , instead of a crown of their virtue and perse- verance , ends in levity and unprofitable courses ; light and useless as the tufted feathers upon ...
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Page 80 - And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. It shall not be quenched night nor day ; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever : from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
Page 358 - Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
Page 509 - Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord; for they rest from their labours.
Page 311 - Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.
Page ccclxvii - If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Page 273 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Page 91 - Heb. xi. 17, according to that in 2 Cor. viii. 12. Where there is a willing mind, it is accepted according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not : which is true of this church-duty, as well as of that of alms.
Page 452 - BRETHREN, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness ; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Page 454 - Young men likewise exhort to be sober-minded ; in all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works, in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, sound speech, that cannot be condemned ; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
Page 274 - Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified...