Tracts of Cyprian, abridged from Marshall's tr., by a master of arts of the University of Cambridge, Parts 1-2 |
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... pleasures of life , or the delicacy of their sex , or ( which is more than all the rest ) through some misapprehensions concerning the great truths of the gospel , are shocked with this great calamity , and do not exert themselves with ...
... pleasures of life , or the delicacy of their sex , or ( which is more than all the rest ) through some misapprehensions concerning the great truths of the gospel , are shocked with this great calamity , and do not exert themselves with ...
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... pleasure in standing continually thus exposed as a mark and butt for our grand adversary to shoot at ; whereas it is indeed infinitely more desirable to be dispatched to Christ , by the help of a speedier death ; when he hath beforehand ...
... pleasure in standing continually thus exposed as a mark and butt for our grand adversary to shoot at ; whereas it is indeed infinitely more desirable to be dispatched to Christ , by the help of a speedier death ; when he hath beforehand ...
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... pleasures are all in reversion , whilst he is exposed at present to all sorts of sufferings and sorrows . Many expect that we should be excepted out of the general rule , and that the destroying angel should hold his hand , and not ...
... pleasures are all in reversion , whilst he is exposed at present to all sorts of sufferings and sorrows . Many expect that we should be excepted out of the general rule , and that the destroying angel should hold his hand , and not ...
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... pleasures of the kingdom of heaven , which have no allay from any danger of their discontinuance , but are sure and immutable for evermore , as having eternity added to the highest degrees of bliss ? There we shall meet with the ...
... pleasures of the kingdom of heaven , which have no allay from any danger of their discontinuance , but are sure and immutable for evermore , as having eternity added to the highest degrees of bliss ? There we shall meet with the ...
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... pleasure as you would desire of them severally to be meanwhile you forget putting the question to your own heart , whether you serve , as you ought , that God by whom , and through whom , every thing else is made subservient to you ? You ...
... pleasure as you would desire of them severally to be meanwhile you forget putting the question to your own heart , whether you serve , as you ought , that God by whom , and through whom , every thing else is made subservient to you ? You ...
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Page 142 - Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
Page 159 - Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die; but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Page 72 - For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Page 159 - I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
Page 141 - He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
Page 79 - For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words : for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Page 179 - God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments ; we have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments : neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
Page 92 - HEAR, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: For the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, And they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, And the ass his master's crib: But Israel doth not know, My people doth not consider.
Page 102 - But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment, let us be therewith content.
Page 87 - Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him ? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth ? saith the Lord.