The Whole Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, Robert Leighton, D.D., Archbishop of Glasgow: To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author by John Norman Pearson, Volume 1James Duncan, 1830 |
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... beauty of holiness , and am enamoured with it , though I attain it not ; and how little soever I attain , would rather live and die in the pursuit of it , than in the pursuit , yea , or in the possession and enjoyment , though unpursued ...
... beauty of holiness , and am enamoured with it , though I attain it not ; and how little soever I attain , would rather live and die in the pursuit of it , than in the pursuit , yea , or in the possession and enjoyment , though unpursued ...
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... beauty of holiness , aim no lower than perfec tion , which in the end we hope to attain ; and in the mean- while the smallest advances towards it are more worth than crowns and sceptres . I believe it , you often think on these words of ...
... beauty of holiness , aim no lower than perfec tion , which in the end we hope to attain ; and in the mean- while the smallest advances towards it are more worth than crowns and sceptres . I believe it , you often think on these words of ...
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... beauty . Their strength is not wasted by excessive polishing their glow is not impaired by reiterated touches . But , though he was little curious in culling words and compounding sentences , his language is generally apt and ...
... beauty . Their strength is not wasted by excessive polishing their glow is not impaired by reiterated touches . But , though he was little curious in culling words and compounding sentences , his language is generally apt and ...
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... beauty of his enunciation accord with the solemn truths of which he was the herald , that the congregations he addressed were subdued and en- chained , as by the magic of an unearthly eloquence . The work , which is the crown of his ...
... beauty of his enunciation accord with the solemn truths of which he was the herald , that the congregations he addressed were subdued and en- chained , as by the magic of an unearthly eloquence . The work , which is the crown of his ...
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... beauty and em- phasis , on the happiness of a life regulated by the fear of God , and by the rules of the gospel ; and he exhorts the students to put forth all their ardour in prosecuting that divine science which lays open the road to ...
... beauty and em- phasis , on the happiness of a life regulated by the fear of God , and by the rules of the gospel ; and he exhorts the students to put forth all their ardour in prosecuting that divine science which lays open the road to ...
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Page 194 - THUS saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: Where is the house that ye build unto me? And where is the place of my rest ? For all those things hath mine hand made, And all those things have been, saith the Lord: But to this man will I look, Even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, And trembleth at my word.
Page 48 - Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations : that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.
Page 93 - For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
Page 182 - How sweet are thy words unto my taste ! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth.
Page 98 - Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ...
Page 36 - ... that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation, in the knowledge of him; the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints...
Page 314 - Christ ; not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers ; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men: knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
Page 76 - Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous : and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
Page 115 - And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear...
Page 161 - For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away : but the Word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the Word which by the Gospel is preached unto you.