The Works ...: With Some Account of His Life ...A.J. Valpy, 1830 |
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... pleasure or convenience : but can any man be so weak as to think this to be the case of the Almighty ? Do you imagine God was young and unexperienced when he made the world , and that he sees faults in it now which he did not see then ...
... pleasure or convenience : but can any man be so weak as to think this to be the case of the Almighty ? Do you imagine God was young and unexperienced when he made the world , and that he sees faults in it now which he did not see then ...
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... pleasures of life , or to rise above pain and sorrow , as though they were but phantoms of the imagination . We are not however to despair ; there is still one remedy for us , unknown to philosophers , and unsought by sensualists and ...
... pleasures of life , or to rise above pain and sorrow , as though they were but phantoms of the imagination . We are not however to despair ; there is still one remedy for us , unknown to philosophers , and unsought by sensualists and ...
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... pleasure in the idea of annihilation , it must arise from some very unnatural cause . This cause is sin , which by making men afraid of judgment , makes them willing to com- pound to be nothing : this is not curing the fear of death ...
... pleasure in the idea of annihilation , it must arise from some very unnatural cause . This cause is sin , which by making men afraid of judgment , makes them willing to com- pound to be nothing : this is not curing the fear of death ...
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... pleasure into the scenes of futurity . These are the comforts which , in the multitude of surrounding sorrows , will refresh the soul . As the comforts arising from true religion are our only true support , so the loss of them ...
... pleasure into the scenes of futurity . These are the comforts which , in the multitude of surrounding sorrows , will refresh the soul . As the comforts arising from true religion are our only true support , so the loss of them ...
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... pleasures of this life , and enable us to bear manfully its afflictions . As in the multitude of our thoughts we shall find a multitude of sorrows , let us therefore keep God our friend , whose comforts will refresh our souls ...
... pleasures of this life , and enable us to bear manfully its afflictions . As in the multitude of our thoughts we shall find a multitude of sorrows , let us therefore keep God our friend , whose comforts will refresh our souls ...
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Page 8 - And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny Me thrice. And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.
Page 461 - Who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature ; for by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers ; all things were created by him, and for him; and he is before all things, and by him all things consist...
Page 228 - Let him that stole, steal no more, but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Page 323 - Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it but "sin
Page 474 - And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
Page 14 - This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.
Page 416 - Whosoever . therefore shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father which is in heaven.
Page 359 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Page 323 - For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Page 346 - In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ : buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.