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Page viii
... Christianity vindicated from the charge of cruelty . + MATTH . X. 34. Think not that I am come to fend peace on earth ; I came not to fend peace , but a fword . SERMON SERMON XIII . The pacific and benevolent temper of the viii CONTENT ...
... Christianity vindicated from the charge of cruelty . + MATTH . X. 34. Think not that I am come to fend peace on earth ; I came not to fend peace , but a fword . SERMON SERMON XIII . The pacific and benevolent temper of the viii CONTENT ...
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... Christian religion , proved from scripture and from facts . Preached at Lambeth Chapel , Dec. 23 , 1764 . LUKE ii . 14. On earth peace , good - will to- wards men . SERMON XIV . An immoderate love of diverfions inconfist- ent with the ...
... Christian religion , proved from scripture and from facts . Preached at Lambeth Chapel , Dec. 23 , 1764 . LUKE ii . 14. On earth peace , good - will to- wards men . SERMON XIV . An immoderate love of diverfions inconfist- ent with the ...
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... Christian friendship . Preached at St. James's Chapel , March 16 , 1777 . JOHN xiii . 23. Now there was leaning on Fefus ' bofom one of his disciples , whom Jefus loved . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION . OF the following fermons ...
... Christian friendship . Preached at St. James's Chapel , March 16 , 1777 . JOHN xiii . 23. Now there was leaning on Fefus ' bofom one of his disciples , whom Jefus loved . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION . OF the following fermons ...
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... Christianity having given us an infinitely great and good and holy God to worship , very naturally requires from us the pureft and devouteft fentiments of af- fection towards him ; and with great jus- tice makes the love of our Maker an ...
... Christianity having given us an infinitely great and good and holy God to worship , very naturally requires from us the pureft and devouteft fentiments of af- fection towards him ; and with great jus- tice makes the love of our Maker an ...
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... Christian be scared out of his duty by fuch vain terrors as thefe . The acciden- tal exceffes of this holy fentiment can be no just argument against its general excellence and utility . As the finest intellects are most easily ...
... Christian be scared out of his duty by fuch vain terrors as thefe . The acciden- tal exceffes of this holy fentiment can be no just argument against its general excellence and utility . As the finest intellects are most easily ...
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Page 383 - Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor ; he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Page 383 - And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor...
Page 261 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Page 221 - For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom ; but we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness ; but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
Page 365 - 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.
Page 267 - For a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment ; 'but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer.
Page 34 - And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds •were evil. For every one that doth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Page 323 - Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice ; and be ye kind one to another, tender hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Page 173 - Ye lust, and have not ; ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain ; ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not ; ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Page 413 - Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he...