Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions, Volume 5Clarendon Press, 1823 - Apologetics |
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... flatterer . He spreads a net for his neighbour's feet , 152 . The flatterer is influenced by these two grand purposes ; 1. To serve himself , 152 . 2. To undermine him whom he flatters , and thereby to effect his ruin , 154. Which he ...
... flatterer . He spreads a net for his neighbour's feet , 152 . The flatterer is influenced by these two grand purposes ; 1. To serve himself , 152 . 2. To undermine him whom he flatters , and thereby to effect his ruin , 154. Which he ...
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... flatterers ; a sort of cattle that usually herd in the courts of princes and the houses of great persons . The words of the text are so plain , that they can need no explication , and therefore I shall imme- diately fall upon the ...
... flatterers ; a sort of cattle that usually herd in the courts of princes and the houses of great persons . The words of the text are so plain , that they can need no explication , and therefore I shall imme- diately fall upon the ...
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... flatterers speak against their conscience ; for that which a man in the same condition would not do himself , he certainly ... flatterer views every little virtue or good quality in him whom he resolves to extol , as it were , with a ...
... flatterers speak against their conscience ; for that which a man in the same condition would not do himself , he certainly ... flatterer views every little virtue or good quality in him whom he resolves to extol , as it were , with a ...
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... flatterer , sets his reputation cupon stilts , which is not the surest way of standing ; and when he comes to be weighed in the balance of the impartial and the judicious , will be found wanting . For look , as the detracter represents ...
... flatterer , sets his reputation cupon stilts , which is not the surest way of standing ; and when he comes to be weighed in the balance of the impartial and the judicious , will be found wanting . For look , as the detracter represents ...
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... flatterer , and the generous disposition of a friend . But when I have said all of the baseness of this art , yet so long as men find it beneficial , and withal see the world full of those that are willing to be made fools of by it , I ...
... flatterer , and the generous disposition of a friend . But when I have said all of the baseness of this art , yet so long as men find it beneficial , and withal see the world full of those that are willing to be made fools of by it , I ...
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Page 262 - Seeing then, that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought we to be in all holy conversation and godliness...
Page 40 - For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness : there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Page 472 - ... the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation ; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb : and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
Page 364 - For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Page 440 - Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.
Page 355 - in whose presence is fulness of joy, and at whose right hand there are pleasures for evermore?
Page 181 - And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily : so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
Page 127 - Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness ; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Page 469 - And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.
Page 433 - O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? 2 . Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.