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... seeking happiness in the things that perish , is laying up treasure for himself . This is absolutely incon- sistent with being ( or rather growing ) rich toward God , with obeying that scriptural command , " My son , give me thy heart ...
... seeking happiness in the things that perish , is laying up treasure for himself . This is absolutely incon- sistent with being ( or rather growing ) rich toward God , with obeying that scriptural command , " My son , give me thy heart ...
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... seek death in the error of their life : and many ways has he tried to disguise the Holiness , without which we cannot be saved . How many things have been palmed , even upon the Christian world , in the place of this ! Some of these are ...
... seek death in the error of their life : and many ways has he tried to disguise the Holiness , without which we cannot be saved . How many things have been palmed , even upon the Christian world , in the place of this ! Some of these are ...
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... ( now fashionably termed Dissipation , ) and idolatry , love of the world , seeking happiness in this or that creature , covered the whole earth . " Upright both in heart and will , We by 42 THE DECEITFULNESS OF MAN'S HEART .
... ( now fashionably termed Dissipation , ) and idolatry , love of the world , seeking happiness in this or that creature , covered the whole earth . " Upright both in heart and will , We by 42 THE DECEITFULNESS OF MAN'S HEART .
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... seeking happiness out of God , in gratifying the desire of the flesh , the desire of the eye , and the pride of life . Hence , it is a melancholy truth , that ( unless when the Spirit of God has made the difference ) all mankind now ...
... seeking happiness out of God , in gratifying the desire of the flesh , the desire of the eye , and the pride of life . Hence , it is a melancholy truth , that ( unless when the Spirit of God has made the difference ) all mankind now ...
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... seeking of happiness in the things that gratify the senses . To in- stance in one , do not you seek your happiness in enlarging the pleasure of tasting ? To be more particular , Do you not eat more plentifully or more delicately than ...
... seeking of happiness in the things that gratify the senses . To in- stance in one , do not you seek your happiness in enlarging the pleasure of tasting ? To be more particular , Do you not eat more plentifully or more delicately than ...
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Page 395 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Page 363 - 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.
Page 84 - Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men : For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
Page 87 - While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live? But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
Page 383 - Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing : let them not feed, nor drink water : but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God : yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
Page 125 - And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
Page 418 - The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord.
Page 116 - 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?
Page 103 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Page 1 - And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.