Sermons on Different Subjects...: With an IntroductionJ.F. Trow, 1840 - 316 pages |
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... happiness against the authority of the eternal Lawgiver . And it is a fact , to which the world should attend with the profoundest interest , that just as much as man loves his own happiness , just so strongly must he , if unconverted ...
... happiness against the authority of the eternal Lawgiver . And it is a fact , to which the world should attend with the profoundest interest , that just as much as man loves his own happiness , just so strongly must he , if unconverted ...
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... happiness is based on that , then it must hate that holy law which enforces upon it an end so different , by an authority so dreadful , and under a penalty so awful . There are two ways , in which men have always endeavoured to avoid ...
... happiness is based on that , then it must hate that holy law which enforces upon it an end so different , by an authority so dreadful , and under a penalty so awful . There are two ways , in which men have always endeavoured to avoid ...
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... happiness will be derived from seeing Him accomplish His sovereign will . If you prefer your own immediate gratification or apparent temporal interest to His will , then either His will must be unperformed , 24 SERMON I.
... happiness will be derived from seeing Him accomplish His sovereign will . If you prefer your own immediate gratification or apparent temporal interest to His will , then either His will must be unperformed , 24 SERMON I.
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... happiness . Acquiescence in the will of God was the main - spring of his joy ; and hence the loss of beloved objects but furnished an occasion to manifest that resig . nation . But our text speaks not of - that class of minds , and we ...
... happiness . Acquiescence in the will of God was the main - spring of his joy ; and hence the loss of beloved objects but furnished an occasion to manifest that resig . nation . But our text speaks not of - that class of minds , and we ...
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... happiness ; but what if the man should find out , that nothing takes place but by His ordering -- what if he should discover , that the most common events of our life form so many links in the great chain which binds the purposes of God ...
... happiness ; but what if the man should find out , that nothing takes place but by His ordering -- what if he should discover , that the most common events of our life form so many links in the great chain which binds the purposes of God ...
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Page 276 - ... which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: and hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
Page 169 - The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, Make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, And every mountain and hill shall be made low: And the crooked shall be made straight, And the rough places plain: And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, And all flesh shall see it together: For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Page 239 - I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. 4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
Page 137 - What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
Page 118 - Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord ; and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
Page 251 - O give thanks unto the Lord; call upon His name : Make known His deeds among the people. Sing unto Him, sing psalms unto Him : Talk ye of all His wondrous works.
Page 7 - But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it; yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
Page 288 - Behold, I will send my Messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me ; and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the Messenger of the Covenant, whom ye delight in : behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 182 - And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat and of the wine which he drank, so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king.