Select Practical Theology of the Seventeenth Century: Comprising the Best Practical Works of the Great English Divines, and Other Congenial Authors of that AgeChauncey Goodrich, 1830 - Theology |
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... look so quite like another thing the next , and change figures and postures almost as often as it doth thoughts . And if a man should be mistaken in judging himself , it would little mend the matter , to have deceived others also into ...
... look so quite like another thing the next , and change figures and postures almost as often as it doth thoughts . And if a man should be mistaken in judging himself , it would little mend the matter , to have deceived others also into ...
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... look with so meagre and pale a face . We have had a greater mind to dispute than live ; and to contend about what we know not , than to practice the far greater things we know ; and which more directly tend to nour- ish and maintain the ...
... look with so meagre and pale a face . We have had a greater mind to dispute than live ; and to contend about what we know not , than to practice the far greater things we know ; and which more directly tend to nour- ish and maintain the ...
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... look to that state where all the godly shall be one , and to turn those thoughts to the furtherance of holiness , to provoke one another to love and to good works , which too many lay out upon their hay and stubble , and to call men ...
... look to that state where all the godly shall be one , and to turn those thoughts to the furtherance of holiness , to provoke one another to love and to good works , which too many lay out upon their hay and stubble , and to call men ...
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... look to the notation of the word , and its frequent use as applied to God , it may commodiously enough , and will often be found to signify , in a larger and more extended sense , any aspect or appearance of God . And though it may be ...
... look to the notation of the word , and its frequent use as applied to God , it may commodiously enough , and will often be found to signify , in a larger and more extended sense , any aspect or appearance of God . And though it may be ...
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... look upon the holy soul now entered into the eternal sabbath † the rest of God : which , ( secluding all respect to that circumstance ) is , yet , the very * How fit a Symbol it is of God's Sabbatic rest , see Dr. More's defence of his ...
... look upon the holy soul now entered into the eternal sabbath † the rest of God : which , ( secluding all respect to that circumstance ) is , yet , the very * How fit a Symbol it is of God's Sabbatic rest , see Dr. More's defence of his ...
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Page 299 - For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? and again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son ? And again, when he bringeth in the first Begotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.
Page 368 - For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. 12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
Page 458 - Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended : but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Page 391 - ... of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer: seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you...
Page 408 - I have set the Lord always before me : Because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Page 89 - Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler ; the snare is broken, and we are delivered.
Page 491 - 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 504 - 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 300 - And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, And his ministers a flame of fire.
Page 381 - 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.