The Four Last Things, Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell: Practically Considered and Applied; to which is Added the Great Duty of Resignation to the Divine Will in Times of Affliction |
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... darkness . This also Hezekiah , in his apprehen- sions of death , speaks of with tears : I shall see man no more in the land of the living . ' Isai . xxxviii . 11. As in the night , the world is a universal grave , all things are in a ...
... darkness . This also Hezekiah , in his apprehen- sions of death , speaks of with tears : I shall see man no more in the land of the living . ' Isai . xxxviii . 11. As in the night , the world is a universal grave , all things are in a ...
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... darkness that follow after . And though it is our best wisdom and truest liberty to rejoice in this world as if we rejoiced not , and fre- quently to meditate on the cooling doctrines of death and judgment , to repress the transports of ...
... darkness that follow after . And though it is our best wisdom and truest liberty to rejoice in this world as if we rejoiced not , and fre- quently to meditate on the cooling doctrines of death and judgment , to repress the transports of ...
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... darkness , that foul spirit . And as we read of the Egyptians , that ' no man arose from his place for three days ; as if they had been buried in that darkness , and deprived of all active power and motion ; so the despairing soul sits ...
... darkness , that foul spirit . And as we read of the Egyptians , that ' no man arose from his place for three days ; as if they had been buried in that darkness , and deprived of all active power and motion ; so the despairing soul sits ...
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... darkness . The wisdom and love of God had their designs in his death , as well as the malice and rage of Satan ; as lines that are opposite in the circumference , meet in the centre . The death of Christ not only delivers us from the ...
... darkness . The wisdom and love of God had their designs in his death , as well as the malice and rage of Satan ; as lines that are opposite in the circumference , meet in the centre . The death of Christ not only delivers us from the ...
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... darkness of ignorance and fear ; for before that discovery , men believed the obscuring of those great lights were the fainting fits of nature , and mortal symptoms threatening a universal calamity . But what praise and blessing is due ...
... darkness of ignorance and fear ; for before that discovery , men believed the obscuring of those great lights were the fainting fits of nature , and mortal symptoms threatening a universal calamity . But what praise and blessing is due ...
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Page 309 - They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not...
Page 90 - Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.
Page 403 - There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
Page 346 - By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season : esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt ; for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward.
Page 375 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Page 185 - But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of this life...
Page 14 - There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
Page 148 - Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another : and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of Hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels ; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
Page 31 - And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses ; blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross ; and having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Page 156 - For he that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.