The Oracles of God: Four Orations. For Judgment to Come, an Argument, in Nine Parts |
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... hope there is in words whereon the eternal destinies of him- self do hang ? Who feels the swelling tide of gratitude within his breast , for redemption and salvation coming , instead of flat despair and everlasting retribution ? Finally ...
... hope there is in words whereon the eternal destinies of him- self do hang ? Who feels the swelling tide of gratitude within his breast , for redemption and salvation coming , instead of flat despair and everlasting retribution ? Finally ...
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... hope , within the heart of man , is treated as the enemy of happiness , and the mur- derer of enjoyment ; and eyed askance , as the remembrancer of death and the very messenger of hell ! Oh ! if books had but tongues to speak their ...
... hope , within the heart of man , is treated as the enemy of happiness , and the mur- derer of enjoyment ; and eyed askance , as the remembrancer of death and the very messenger of hell ! Oh ! if books had but tongues to speak their ...
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... hope without offence , to the contractedness and pre - occupation with which Christians and worldly men are apt to come to the perusal of the word of God , we shall now set forth the two master feelings under which we should address our ...
... hope without offence , to the contractedness and pre - occupation with which Christians and worldly men are apt to come to the perusal of the word of God , we shall now set forth the two master feelings under which we should address our ...
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... hope of a fallen world , is an idle meteor which mocks pursuit , and may be left to seek its way back into the hiding place of the Almighty's council , from which it hath come forth to man in vain ! But if , upon the other hand , any ...
... hope of a fallen world , is an idle meteor which mocks pursuit , and may be left to seek its way back into the hiding place of the Almighty's council , from which it hath come forth to man in vain ! But if , upon the other hand , any ...
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... hope to help him onward in the way everlasting . Yet , for the sake of disabusing the others who stand look- ing for a dawning they know not whence nor when , let me interrogate any Christian , how he won his way from former darkness to ...
... hope to help him onward in the way everlasting . Yet , for the sake of disabusing the others who stand look- ing for a dawning they know not whence nor when , let me interrogate any Christian , how he won his way from former darkness to ...
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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.