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... happiness , to the neglect of our spiritual interests : it is this ; we forget , that while we are labouring for the meat that perisheth , " there is ONE who laboured hard to provide for us " the meat that endureth unto everlasting life ...
... happiness , to the neglect of our spiritual interests : it is this ; we forget , that while we are labouring for the meat that perisheth , " there is ONE who laboured hard to provide for us " the meat that endureth unto everlasting life ...
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... happiness which you have so long cherished , but as a gate which opens to a treasure - house of everlasting joys , and admits you into the immediate presence of God , " at whose right hand there are plea- sures for evermore . " 7 ...
... happiness which you have so long cherished , but as a gate which opens to a treasure - house of everlasting joys , and admits you into the immediate presence of God , " at whose right hand there are plea- sures for evermore . " 7 ...
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... happiness of heaven , " to use the words of Archbishop Tillotson , " consists in a perpe- tual gazing upon God , and an idle contem- plation of the glories of that place ; " neither is there any reason why all our loveliest and best ...
... happiness of heaven , " to use the words of Archbishop Tillotson , " consists in a perpe- tual gazing upon God , and an idle contem- plation of the glories of that place ; " neither is there any reason why all our loveliest and best ...
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... happiest days that ever were seen in former times , that they shall not de- serve to be mentioned , there being no com ... happiness or misery is to be determined by our present life , seems fully to prove that we are to retain a ...
... happiest days that ever were seen in former times , that they shall not de- serve to be mentioned , there being no com ... happiness or misery is to be determined by our present life , seems fully to prove that we are to retain a ...
Page 52
... happiness may be en- hanced by a renewed intercourse with one another . In their own place , the wicked will not improbably be allowed to be the 1 Thess . iv . 16 . instruments of mutual torment ; but as we are assured 52 SERMON III .
... happiness may be en- hanced by a renewed intercourse with one another . In their own place , the wicked will not improbably be allowed to be the 1 Thess . iv . 16 . instruments of mutual torment ; but as we are assured 52 SERMON III .
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Page 122 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto GOD Who gave it.
Page 93 - Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean. " But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, he will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean 1 So he turned, and went away in a rage.
Page 25 - Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar ? Even so hath the Lord ordained, that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
Page 191 - By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: for this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Page 42 - But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
Page 3 - 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. 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 138 - I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation : and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
Page 221 - But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Page 163 - And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die: and he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.
Page 115 - And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life...