Sermons ...: With a Short Account of the Life and Character of the Author, Volume 1Sharpe & Son, Edwards & Company, [and others], 1820 - Sermons |
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... true Christian ; piety joined with charity , faith with good works , devotion with morality . These are things which God hath connected , and which it is impious in man to separate . It is only when they remain united , that they can ...
... true Christian ; piety joined with charity , faith with good works , devotion with morality . These are things which God hath connected , and which it is impious in man to separate . It is only when they remain united , that they can ...
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... true virtue or honour , to value thyself upon thy regard to inferior obligations , and yet to violate that which is the most sacred and the most ancient of all ? When simple instinct teaches the Tartar and the Indian , together with his ...
... true virtue or honour , to value thyself upon thy regard to inferior obligations , and yet to violate that which is the most sacred and the most ancient of all ? When simple instinct teaches the Tartar and the Indian , together with his ...
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... true worth . If you leave either of them out of your system , even though you excel in the other , you can stand trial only in one point of view . It is only on one side your character is fair ; on the other , it will always be open to ...
... true worth . If you leave either of them out of your system , even though you excel in the other , you can stand trial only in one point of view . It is only on one side your character is fair ; on the other , it will always be open to ...
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... true happiness . It had early weaned him from the undue love of the world , by discovering to him its vanity , and by setting higher prospects in his view . Afflictions do not attack him by surprise , and therefore do not overwhelm him ...
... true happiness . It had early weaned him from the undue love of the world , by discovering to him its vanity , and by setting higher prospects in his view . Afflictions do not attack him by surprise , and therefore do not overwhelm him ...
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... enigma , which our translators have rendered by seeing them darkly ; that is , the truth in part discovered , in part concealed , and placed beyond our comprehension . а a This description , however just and true , cannot 3 darkly,
... enigma , which our translators have rendered by seeing them darkly ; that is , the truth in part discovered , in part concealed , and placed beyond our comprehension . а a This description , however just and true , cannot 3 darkly,
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Page 237 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore let thy words be few.
Page 53 - For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
Page 101 - Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.
Page 148 - He feedeth on ashes : a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand...
Page 202 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Page 194 - Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; To shew that the Lord is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
Page 146 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Page 53 - When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
Page 133 - Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.