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MY BRETHREN , V E RE I obliged to give a title to this episW tle , from which I
have taken my text , to distinguish it from the other books of our sacred canon , I
would call it the paradoxes of St . James . It should seem , the apostle had no
other ...
MY BRETHREN , V E RE I obliged to give a title to this episW tle , from which I
have taken my text , to distinguish it from the other books of our sacred canon , I
would call it the paradoxes of St . James . It should seem , the apostle had no
other ...
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Our second class of reflections will be applied to enforce the sense , that we shall
give the text . The last will characterize those sinners , who live in this dreadful
state , who , by habitually offending in one point , render them , selves guilty of an
...
Our second class of reflections will be applied to enforce the sense , that we shall
give the text . The last will characterize those sinners , who live in this dreadful
state , who , by habitually offending in one point , render them , selves guilty of an
...
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Infirmities of this kind do not answer the black description , which St . James gives
of the offence mentioned in the text . A good man , who is subject to these frailties
, far from approving the sad necessity , that carries him off from his duty ...
Infirmities of this kind do not answer the black description , which St . James gives
of the offence mentioned in the text . A good man , who is subject to these frailties
, far from approving the sad necessity , that carries him off from his duty ...
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Agreeably to this notion a famous Rabbi expounds these words in Hosea , Take .
away all iniquity , and give good , that ... What is still more remarkable , when the
Jews choose a precept , they usually choose one , that gives the least check to ...
Agreeably to this notion a famous Rabbi expounds these words in Hosea , Take .
away all iniquity , and give good , that ... What is still more remarkable , when the
Jews choose a precept , they usually choose one , that gives the least check to ...
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... diligently endeavored to understand a passage of scripture proceeding from
the mouth of God , I give it a sense different from that , which is the true meaning
of it ; if I give it this sense , not because I dispute the authority of an infallible God
...
... diligently endeavored to understand a passage of scripture proceeding from
the mouth of God , I give it a sense different from that , which is the true meaning
of it ; if I give it this sense , not because I dispute the authority of an infallible God
...
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Page 31 - Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Page 218 - And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews : to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law ; To them that are without law...
Page 318 - For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death : for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
Page 68 - For thus saith the LORD of hosts, yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land. And I will shake all nations, and the Desire of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts, the silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts.
Page 65 - I have set the LORD always before me : Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Page 351 - I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation; I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
Page 30 - And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord's: it is holy unto the Lord.
Page 306 - I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air : but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection : lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Page 245 - And all that believed were together, and had all things common ; and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
Page 273 - He that ruleth his spirit, is better than he that taketh a city,
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| Title | Sermons Translated from the Original French of the Late Rev. James Saurin ..., Volume 4 Sermons Translated from the Original French of the Late Rev. James Saurin, Joseph Sutcliffe |
| Authors | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson |
| Publisher | L. Nichols, 1805 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 1 Aug 2006 |
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