Sermons on the following subjects ... friendship [&c.]. With an additional discourse1776 |
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... glory , could not appear with greater advantage to the external eye , than fuch women evidently must to the intel- lectual . Such however was the magnanimous fpirit of JONATHAN , or he would not have ftript himself to do honour to his ...
... glory , could not appear with greater advantage to the external eye , than fuch women evidently must to the intel- lectual . Such however was the magnanimous fpirit of JONATHAN , or he would not have ftript himself to do honour to his ...
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... glory ; we have no occafion to draw upon our friend's benevolence . It is then our time to beftow , and not to afk ; and we may fay from happy experience , it is more bleffed to give , than to receive . The rich man , it has been ...
... glory ; we have no occafion to draw upon our friend's benevolence . It is then our time to beftow , and not to afk ; and we may fay from happy experience , it is more bleffed to give , than to receive . The rich man , it has been ...
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... glory . In a word , they would endea- vour , in all things , to be like him , and , as far as they are able , to be perfect , even as he is perfect : Now it is extremely obvious , that , if man- kind were properly actuated by this ...
... glory . In a word , they would endea- vour , in all things , to be like him , and , as far as they are able , to be perfect , even as he is perfect : Now it is extremely obvious , that , if man- kind were properly actuated by this ...
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... glory . In this world we are only pilgrims and ftrangers , who are daily travelling to their everlasting home ; if , therefore , in our present fituation , we are but ill accommo- dated , it cannot be any juft matter of fur- prise or ...
... glory . In this world we are only pilgrims and ftrangers , who are daily travelling to their everlasting home ; if , therefore , in our present fituation , we are but ill accommo- dated , it cannot be any juft matter of fur- prise or ...
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... glory of the MESSIAH , and the felicity of man * . BUT by what means was this to be effect- ed ? not certainly without a more merciful covenant . And this was established in virtue . of that atonement for fin , which our Saviour , out ...
... glory of the MESSIAH , and the felicity of man * . BUT by what means was this to be effect- ed ? not certainly without a more merciful covenant . And this was established in virtue . of that atonement for fin , which our Saviour , out ...
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Page 155 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it ? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes ? And now, go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard.
Page 103 - I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms ; but they knew not that I healed them. 4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love...
Page 126 - And Jesus went into the Temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the Temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of them that sold doves, and said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer ; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
Page 93 - Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God ? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old ? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
Page 109 - ... he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the Wild asses ; they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of Heaven...
Page 212 - This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
Page 158 - It is a period nowhere to be found In all the hoary registers of time, Unless perchance in the fool's calendar. Wisdom disclaims the word, nor" holds society With those who own it. No, my Horatio, 'Tis Fancy's child, and Folly is its father; Wrought of such stuff as dreams are; and baseless As the fantastic visions of the evening.
Page 137 - Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Page 109 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 162 - For I know him, that he will command his children, and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment ; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.