The saint's everlasting rest: or, A treatise on the blessed state of the saints, in their enjoyment of God in Heaven [abridged by B. Fawcett]. Also, A call to the unconverted, by R. Baxter. To which are added, A serious address to penitents, by J. Fletcher, also Alleine's Alarm (to unconverted sinners).1815 |
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... creature : how little then must we know of the great Creator , though he with one view clearly beholds ( n ) John xvi . 20 , 22. ( 0 ) 1 Cor . ii . 9. ( p ) 1 John iii . 2 . us all ! A glimpse the saints behold as in THE SAINT'S REST . 19.
... creature : how little then must we know of the great Creator , though he with one view clearly beholds ( n ) John xvi . 20 , 22. ( 0 ) 1 Cor . ii . 9. ( p ) 1 John iii . 2 . us all ! A glimpse the saints behold as in THE SAINT'S REST . 19.
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... creature , shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord . " ( q ) And now , are we not left in the apostle's admiration , What shall we say to these things ? ( r ) Infinite love must needs be a ...
... creature , shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord . " ( q ) And now , are we not left in the apostle's admiration , What shall we say to these things ? ( r ) Infinite love must needs be a ...
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... creatures prepared for the devil and his angels ; ( b ) but our joy is the joy of our Lord . ( c ) The same glory which the Father gave the Son , the Son hath given them , ( d ) to sit with him in his throne , even as he is set down ...
... creatures prepared for the devil and his angels ; ( b ) but our joy is the joy of our Lord . ( c ) The same glory which the Father gave the Son , the Son hath given them , ( d ) to sit with him in his throne , even as he is set down ...
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... creatures ; and as it comes from man , it savours of both . How quick and piercing is the word in itself ! ( u ) yet many times it never enters , be- ing managed by a feeble arm . What weight and worth is there in every passage of the ...
... creatures ; and as it comes from man , it savours of both . How quick and piercing is the word in itself ! ( u ) yet many times it never enters , be- ing managed by a feeble arm . What weight and worth is there in every passage of the ...
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... creatures , is the case of us on earth . To have necessity supplied imme- diately from God , is the case of the saints in heaven . To have no necessity at all , is the prerogative of God himself . § 8. ( 6 ) A farther excellence of this ...
... creatures , is the case of us on earth . To have necessity supplied imme- diately from God , is the case of the saints in heaven . To have no necessity at all , is the prerogative of God himself . § 8. ( 6 ) A farther excellence of this ...
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Page 19 - For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
Page 363 - Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth He any man. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Page 203 - If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
Page 33 - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness...
Page 168 - AS the hart panteth after the water brooks, •** so panteth my soul after thee, O God. ' My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God : when shall I come and appear before God?
Page 19 - And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true ; and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Page 325 - And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation ; to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them, and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
Page 246 - Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
Page 481 - And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Page 478 - When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.