The Works of Nathanael Emmons ...: With a Memoir of His Life, Volume 3Crocker and Brewster, 1842 - Theology |
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... exercise of a truly submissive spirit . Sensibility is so far from being inconsistent with submission , that it is abso- lutely essential to its existence . No person can exercise sub- mission while he feels no evil . If God did not ...
... exercise of a truly submissive spirit . Sensibility is so far from being inconsistent with submission , that it is abso- lutely essential to its existence . No person can exercise sub- mission while he feels no evil . If God did not ...
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... exercise any true submission . For this essentially consists in bowing their wills to the will of God . Such was the nature of Christ's submission . When it pleased the Father to afflict him , he said from the heart , " Father , not my ...
... exercise any true submission . For this essentially consists in bowing their wills to the will of God . Such was the nature of Christ's submission . When it pleased the Father to afflict him , he said from the heart , " Father , not my ...
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... exercise the powers and faculties of the mind , and prevent it from preying upon itself by contemplating those things which create uneasiness , disgust , or remorse . Many are perpetually forming worldly schemes of a public or private ...
... exercise the powers and faculties of the mind , and prevent it from preying upon itself by contemplating those things which create uneasiness , disgust , or remorse . Many are perpetually forming worldly schemes of a public or private ...
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... exercise of faith , and love , and entire submission to God , that in his light you can see light , and find rest to your souls , in the view of the sudden and solemn instance of mor- tality which you are called to lament . Be entreated ...
... exercise of faith , and love , and entire submission to God , that in his light you can see light , and find rest to your souls , in the view of the sudden and solemn instance of mor- tality which you are called to lament . Be entreated ...
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... exercises of the mind . 1. It implies a realizing sense that God has laid their bur- dens upon them . They must know the rod , and him who hath appointed it , in order to know where to cast their burdens . All afflictions come from God ...
... exercises of the mind . 1. It implies a realizing sense that God has laid their bur- dens upon them . They must know the rod , and him who hath appointed it , in order to know where to cast their burdens . All afflictions come from God ...
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Page 331 - And he said, This will I do, I will pull down my barns, and build greater, and there will I bestow all my fruits, and my goods. 21 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years, take thine ease, eat, drink and be merry.
Page 475 - Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,, which according to His abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
Page 158 - ... that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us...
Page 474 - I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth : my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt shew me the path of life : in thy presence is fulness of joy ; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Page 149 - After this I beheld, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands ; And cried with a loud voice ; saying; Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
Page 80 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Page 356 - Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
Page 318 - For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Page 375 - For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of GOD, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven : if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
Page 57 - Then Job answered the LORD, and said, Behold, I am vile ; what shall I answer thee! I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. Once have I spoken; but I will not answer : Yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.