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... speak plainly , and say , " For whose sake do you look to be saved ? " Any plain peasant would then readily answer , " For the sake of Jesus Christ . " But all those dark , ambiguous phrases tend only to puzzle the cause , and open a ...
... speak plainly , and say , " For whose sake do you look to be saved ? " Any plain peasant would then readily answer , " For the sake of Jesus Christ . " But all those dark , ambiguous phrases tend only to puzzle the cause , and open a ...
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... speaking directly of the wicked , that prosper in their wickedness . It is very com- mon for these , utterly to forget that they are creatures of a day to live as if they were never to die : as if their present state was to endure for ...
... speaking directly of the wicked , that prosper in their wickedness . It is very com- mon for these , utterly to forget that they are creatures of a day to live as if they were never to die : as if their present state was to endure for ...
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... speak with God , as it were , face to face ; with Job , perfected by sufferings , with Samuel , David , Solomon , Isaiah , Daniel , and all the Prophets . With the Apostles , the noble army of Martyrs , and all the Saints who have lived ...
... speak with God , as it were , face to face ; with Job , perfected by sufferings , with Samuel , David , Solomon , Isaiah , Daniel , and all the Prophets . With the Apostles , the noble army of Martyrs , and all the Saints who have lived ...
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... no information of any thing , but what is first presented by the senses . But hereby a new set of senses ( so to speak ) is opened in our souls : and by this means " The things unknown to feeble sense , Unseen by D 3 ON FAITH . 37.
... no information of any thing , but what is first presented by the senses . But hereby a new set of senses ( so to speak ) is opened in our souls : and by this means " The things unknown to feeble sense , Unseen by D 3 ON FAITH . 37.
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... speak , and act as they do ; therefore the blame lights on God alone . " Satan , avaunt ! It may be doubted , whether he himself ever uttered so foul a blasphemy as this . 5. But whatever unbaptized or baptized Infidels may say ...
... speak , and act as they do ; therefore the blame lights on God alone . " Satan , avaunt ! It may be doubted , whether he himself ever uttered so foul a blasphemy as this . 5. But whatever unbaptized or baptized Infidels may say ...
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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.