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... Favours and Mercies : And , therefore , if we think ourselves bound to love our Friends and Benefactors , or Parents and deareft Relations , there is much greater Reason to love God , whofe Kindnefs to us far exceeds all the Care and ...
... Favours and Mercies : And , therefore , if we think ourselves bound to love our Friends and Benefactors , or Parents and deareft Relations , there is much greater Reason to love God , whofe Kindnefs to us far exceeds all the Care and ...
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... Favour , and are in Hopes of be- ing re - inftated in our Poffeffion of him . 4. Once more . Love is a bold and active Paf- fion , which warms and animates the Heart with fuch 1 fuch a generous Fire , as difdains all Oppofition Onr Duty ...
... Favour , and are in Hopes of be- ing re - inftated in our Poffeffion of him . 4. Once more . Love is a bold and active Paf- fion , which warms and animates the Heart with fuch 1 fuch a generous Fire , as difdains all Oppofition Onr Duty ...
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... Favour , we may be undone , before his Helping - hand is stretched out to us . But now , in God , whofe Understanding is infinite , and whofe Eye every Moment has the whole Creation under his View , there can be no Rifque of this Kind ...
... Favour , we may be undone , before his Helping - hand is stretched out to us . But now , in God , whofe Understanding is infinite , and whofe Eye every Moment has the whole Creation under his View , there can be no Rifque of this Kind ...
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... Favours from God , yet we can infallibly be fure of no Bleffings , but what he , in his Word , has been graciously pleased to promife . Now Promises of Help to thofe , that are righteous , and put their Truft in God , are innu- merable ...
... Favours from God , yet we can infallibly be fure of no Bleffings , but what he , in his Word , has been graciously pleased to promife . Now Promises of Help to thofe , that are righteous , and put their Truft in God , are innu- merable ...
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... Favours and Benefits , which from Time to Time God had extended to him , and , if he so fre- quently received Good at the Hand of God , it was but equitable , he thought , that he fhould fome- times receive Evil . He confidered the ...
... Favours and Benefits , which from Time to Time God had extended to him , and , if he so fre- quently received Good at the Hand of God , it was but equitable , he thought , that he fhould fome- times receive Evil . He confidered the ...
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Page 106 - But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Page 146 - Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches : but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth Me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth : for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.
Page 290 - Jesus: that ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts ; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind ; and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Page 179 - Therefore, when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues, and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Page 243 - Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Page 219 - He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
Page 168 - Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him, let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Page 181 - If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain ; if thou sayest, "Behold, we knew it not;" doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
Page 224 - Hath the Lord indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the Lord heard it. 3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth...
Page 246 - For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: 8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.