The Oracles of God: Four Orations. For Judgment to Come, an Argument, in Nine Parts |
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... faith we have been called on to defend , or which are reputable with our party , assume in our esteem an importance dispropor- tionate to their importance in the Word , which we come to relish chiefly when it goes to sustain them , and ...
... faith we have been called on to defend , or which are reputable with our party , assume in our esteem an importance dispropor- tionate to their importance in the Word , which we come to relish chiefly when it goes to sustain them , and ...
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... faith - bring a contempt upon the cause in which mighty men did formerly gird themselves to the combat - and so cast the stumbling - block of a mistaken paltriness between enlightened men and the cross of Christ ! So far from this ...
... faith - bring a contempt upon the cause in which mighty men did formerly gird themselves to the combat - and so cast the stumbling - block of a mistaken paltriness between enlightened men and the cross of Christ ! So far from this ...
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... faith that from this useful office they should have come to usurp it as the great instrument of a religious edu- cation , and the great storehouse of religious knowledge , in our families , in our schools , and even in the ministry of ...
... faith that from this useful office they should have come to usurp it as the great instrument of a religious edu- cation , and the great storehouse of religious knowledge , in our families , in our schools , and even in the ministry of ...
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... faith , and were plotting the downfall of religion itself . Then an accurate statement of opinion from the pulpit , from the lips of childhood , from the death - bed of age , becomes all in all ; whereas it is noth- ing if not conjoined ...
... faith , and were plotting the downfall of religion itself . Then an accurate statement of opinion from the pulpit , from the lips of childhood , from the death - bed of age , becomes all in all ; whereas it is noth- ing if not conjoined ...
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... faith and feeling in technical and theological phrase , but sink dumb when the high points of faith are handled - all these - the baneful effects of holding so much acquaintance with formularies of doctrine , and so little with the Word ...
... faith and feeling in technical and theological phrase , but sink dumb when the high points of faith are handled - all these - the baneful effects of holding so much acquaintance with formularies of doctrine , and so little with the Word ...
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Page 209 - Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Page 252 - And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off. It is better for thee to enter halt into life than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched. Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Page 16 - I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; when your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me...
Page 231 - Many will say to me in that day, "Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name, and in thy name cast out devils, and in thy name done many wonderful works?" And then will I profess unto them, "I never knew you; depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Page 121 - His name shall be called Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.
Page 125 - Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundations of the earth ; and the heavens are the work of thine hands : they shall perish, but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment, and as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed : but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
Page 192 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprisoned in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Page 209 - Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
Page 16 - Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But ye have set at naught all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh...
Page 209 - Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was an hungred and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger and ye took me in: naked and ye clothed me: I was sick and ye visited me: I was in prison and ye came unto me.