The Works of Thomas Secker, LL.D.: Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Volume 4C. and J. Rivington, 1825 - Sermons, English |
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... affection ? If employed in affairs , are we vigi- lant and upright , and studious , in all things , of the general good , as men fearing God , and hating covet- ousness ? If advanced to stations of eminence and * Matth . xii . 37 . + ...
... affection ? If employed in affairs , are we vigi- lant and upright , and studious , in all things , of the general good , as men fearing God , and hating covet- ousness ? If advanced to stations of eminence and * Matth . xii . 37 . + ...
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... affection inseparable from us , tempts us to be wonderfully easy of belief in our own favour ; and extremely slow to discern , and in- dustrious to disguise even to our own view , what- ever tends to lessen us . Then , as for the ...
... affection inseparable from us , tempts us to be wonderfully easy of belief in our own favour ; and extremely slow to discern , and in- dustrious to disguise even to our own view , what- ever tends to lessen us . Then , as for the ...
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... affections duly : for want of which , multitudes are proud of their vices , and glory in their shame ↑ † . One 3. After this we must proceed to examine , what deductions are to be made from the value of our ac- complishments and ...
... affections duly : for want of which , multitudes are proud of their vices , and glory in their shame ↑ † . One 3. After this we must proceed to examine , what deductions are to be made from the value of our ac- complishments and ...
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... affection to them ; ( for so the evangelist puts it ; ) conveying his meaning the more expressively , as the eastern custom was , by an out- ward action , peculiarly fitted to exemplify it : that I shall read you almost the whole ...
... affection to them ; ( for so the evangelist puts it ; ) conveying his meaning the more expressively , as the eastern custom was , by an out- ward action , peculiarly fitted to exemplify it : that I shall read you almost the whole ...
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... affections cultivated , and the deeds done by us , while in the body . Were the life which we now live , imagined to be the whole , multitudes would argue , plausibly though unjustly , that it could be no great matter , how they spent ...
... affections cultivated , and the deeds done by us , while in the body . Were the life which we now live , imagined to be the whole , multitudes would argue , plausibly though unjustly , that it could be no great matter , how they spent ...
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Page 123 - Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Page 242 - Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.
Page 404 - For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Page 80 - And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire ; and it sat upon each of them, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost ; and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Page 177 - And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
Page 387 - Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night : ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Page 296 - Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement ; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us : for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves...
Page 91 - If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Page 82 - For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; to another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: but all these worketh that one and the self-same Spirit, dividing to every man severally as He will.