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Our obedience to God as a Father is founded on the certain advantages , which
they , who obey his laws , derive from them , and on a clear evidence , that
because he ordains them , they must be essential to our happiness . Now he ,
who sins ...
Our obedience to God as a Father is founded on the certain advantages , which
they , who obey his laws , derive from them , and on a clear evidence , that
because he ordains them , they must be essential to our happiness . Now he ,
who sins ...
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He says , It is not God , who is the source of my true happiness : it is my gold , my
silver , my palace , my equipage , my Dallah , my Drusilla . To offend in one point
in this sense is to be guilty of all ; because it subverts the foundation , on which ...
He says , It is not God , who is the source of my true happiness : it is my gold , my
silver , my palace , my equipage , my Dallah , my Drusilla . To offend in one point
in this sense is to be guilty of all ; because it subverts the foundation , on which ...
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... even while he falls into his sin , he considers it as the greatest misfortune of bis
life : the other regards him as a mortal enemy ; who endeavors to prevail with him
to renounce a passion , in the gratification of which all his happiness depends .
... even while he falls into his sin , he considers it as the greatest misfortune of bis
life : the other regards him as a mortal enemy ; who endeavors to prevail with him
to renounce a passion , in the gratification of which all his happiness depends .
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3 . but we shall incessantly animate one another to celebrate the praises of the
author of our existence and happiness . In heaven we shall not approach a table
to commemorate , by receiving a little bread and wine , our divine Redeemer ,
and ...
3 . but we shall incessantly animate one another to celebrate the praises of the
author of our existence and happiness . In heaven we shall not approach a table
to commemorate , by receiving a little bread and wine , our divine Redeemer ,
and ...
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Was it not enough to exclude thyself from eternal happiness , must heaven also
be shut against us , by thine abominable maxims as well as thy pernicious
example ! Was it not enough to precipitate thyself into these flames , must we be
drawn ...
Was it not enough to exclude thyself from eternal happiness , must heaven also
be shut against us , by thine abominable maxims as well as thy pernicious
example ! Was it not enough to precipitate thyself into these flames , must we be
drawn ...
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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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