The last things; Lent lectures1828 |
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... minds from the shackles of ceremony , have rushed into the latitudes of licentiousness . That , to us , this season may not be a mere name , that we may recall the prac- tice of pristine Christianity , and distin- guish the weeks by ...
... minds from the shackles of ceremony , have rushed into the latitudes of licentiousness . That , to us , this season may not be a mere name , that we may recall the prac- tice of pristine Christianity , and distin- guish the weeks by ...
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... mind of the natural man should see only a ruin , incapable of re - adjust- ment ; — " water spilt on the ground , and no more to be gathered up . " Some of the Sacred writers , indeed , assuming the sentiments , and uttering the doubts ...
... mind of the natural man should see only a ruin , incapable of re - adjust- ment ; — " water spilt on the ground , and no more to be gathered up . " Some of the Sacred writers , indeed , assuming the sentiments , and uttering the doubts ...
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... minds , to meet , with stoic fortitude , an inevitable event . They have asked themselves what is so pleasant as ... mind . It cannot satisfy our native and inherent curiosity , to know the secrets of the universe ; the horror at the ...
... minds , to meet , with stoic fortitude , an inevitable event . They have asked themselves what is so pleasant as ... mind . It cannot satisfy our native and inherent curiosity , to know the secrets of the universe ; the horror at the ...
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... minds , though they have vanished from compu- tation , and ceased to impress conscience ; assuredly they are , every one , registered in the books of God . Well , then , might the man after God's own heart exclaim , " Enter not into ...
... minds , though they have vanished from compu- tation , and ceased to impress conscience ; assuredly they are , every one , registered in the books of God . Well , then , might the man after God's own heart exclaim , " Enter not into ...
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... mind , which had driven religion from the affections ; -or those sinful pleasures which had debased and ruined the soul , at this moment ap- pear in his sight ! He hath sown the wind , and reaped the whirlwind ? He hath served a ...
... mind , which had driven religion from the affections ; -or those sinful pleasures which had debased and ruined the soul , at this moment ap- pear in his sight ! He hath sown the wind , and reaped the whirlwind ? He hath served a ...
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Page 39 - For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Page 125 - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat ? Nevertheless we.
Page 83 - Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Page 48 - I will ransom them from the power of the grave ; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: Repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
Page 114 - God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.
Page 157 - Thou wilt show me the path of life : in thy presence is fulness of joy, and at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Page 123 - Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning : lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
Page 7 - For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Page 13 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, And that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
Page 19 - Enter not into judgment with thy servant, O LORD; for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.