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... misery , and your piety or your prayers will not reverse your doom . God is good - but this is no security to you . He may be good , and yet make you miserable , however virtuous you are . Say not , this would be unjust . There is , in ...
... misery , and your piety or your prayers will not reverse your doom . God is good - but this is no security to you . He may be good , and yet make you miserable , however virtuous you are . Say not , this would be unjust . There is , in ...
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... that wicked men should suffer evil . As there is a natural connection between sin and mis- ery , a life devoted to sin till its end , must terminate in misery . To suppose that a man , living in wickedness and SERMON FIRST .
... that wicked men should suffer evil . As there is a natural connection between sin and mis- ery , a life devoted to sin till its end , must terminate in misery . To suppose that a man , living in wickedness and SERMON FIRST .
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... Misery is as really the fruit of vice reigning in the heart , as tares are the produce of tares sown in the field . A man may as rationally expect to reap barley from cockle , as reap happiness from vice . To him that soweth ...
... Misery is as really the fruit of vice reigning in the heart , as tares are the produce of tares sown in the field . A man may as rationally expect to reap barley from cockle , as reap happiness from vice . To him that soweth ...
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... misery will be the natural result of his vile affections and criminal indulgencies . St. Jude , speaking of the punishment of certain ungodly men , who turn the grace of God into lasciviousness , and deny the Lord who bought them , says ...
... misery will be the natural result of his vile affections and criminal indulgencies . St. Jude , speaking of the punishment of certain ungodly men , who turn the grace of God into lasciviousness , and deny the Lord who bought them , says ...
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... Misery is as much the natural fruit of their wickedness , as what they reap in their fields is the natural fruit of what they sowed . If God disposes all things to their proper ends , the wicked must be doomed to the day of evil . How ...
... Misery is as much the natural fruit of their wickedness , as what they reap in their fields is the natural fruit of what they sowed . If God disposes all things to their proper ends , the wicked must be doomed to the day of evil . How ...
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Page 57 - A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you : and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
Page 309 - For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs. Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.
Page 301 - Jesus: that ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts ; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind ; and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Page 52 - See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Page 208 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest : but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
Page 63 - Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Page 107 - If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you : but if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it ; for I will be no judge of such matters.
Page 307 - And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Page 278 - And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.