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26 . . But without attending to all the paradoxes of St . James , let us attend to this
in our text . Here is a principle , that seems more likely to produce despair in our
hearts than to promote virtue ; a principle ; which seems to aim at no less than ...
26 . . But without attending to all the paradoxes of St . James , let us attend to this
in our text . Here is a principle , that seems more likely to produce despair in our
hearts than to promote virtue ; a principle ; which seems to aim at no less than ...
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By daily frailties I mean those imperfections of piety , which are inseparable from
the conditions of inhiábitants of this world , which mix themselves with the virtues
of the nitost : eminent saints , and which , even in the highest exercises of the ...
By daily frailties I mean those imperfections of piety , which are inseparable from
the conditions of inhiábitants of this world , which mix themselves with the virtues
of the nitost : eminent saints , and which , even in the highest exercises of the ...
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If there remain any liberty of judgment amidst the phrenzy , he employs it to recal
his reason , which is fleeing , and to arouse his virtue , that sleeps in spite of all
his efforts . All chained as he is by the enemy , he makes efforts weak indeed , but
...
If there remain any liberty of judgment amidst the phrenzy , he employs it to recal
his reason , which is fleeing , and to arouse his virtue , that sleeps in spite of all
his efforts . All chained as he is by the enemy , he makes efforts weak indeed , but
...
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He informs them , that a virtue incomplete in its parts cannot be a true virtue . He
affirms , that he , who resolves in his own mind to sin , and who forces his
conscience to approve vice , while he commits it , cannot in this manner violate
one ...
He informs them , that a virtue incomplete in its parts cannot be a true virtue . He
affirms , that he , who resolves in his own mind to sin , and who forces his
conscience to approve vice , while he commits it , cannot in this manner violate
one ...
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... the food of christian virtues ; and that , when people have accustomed
themselves to live without the public exercises of religion , they insensibly lose
that delicacy of conscience , without which they cannot either be good christians ,
or , what ...
... the food of christian virtues ; and that , when people have accustomed
themselves to live without the public exercises of religion , they insensibly lose
that delicacy of conscience , without which they cannot either be good christians ,
or , what ...
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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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