The Whole Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, Robert Leighton: To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author, Volume 2James Duncan, 1825 - Theology |
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... suffering , as their lot , and patience , as their duty , even under the most unjust and undeserved sufferings . And both these are as large as the sphere of this calling . Not only servants and others of a mean condition , who , lying ...
... suffering , as their lot , and patience , as their duty , even under the most unjust and undeserved sufferings . And both these are as large as the sphere of this calling . Not only servants and others of a mean condition , who , lying ...
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... sufferings . 2 Tim . iii . 12. All that will follow Christ , must do it in his livery ; they must take up their cross . This is a very harsh and unpleasing article of the Gospel to a carnal mind , but the Scrip- tures conceal it not ...
... sufferings . 2 Tim . iii . 12. All that will follow Christ , must do it in his livery ; they must take up their cross . This is a very harsh and unpleasing article of the Gospel to a carnal mind , but the Scrip- tures conceal it not ...
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... sufferings come , their minds are as new and uncouth to it , as if they had not been told of it before hand . They like better St. Peter's carnal advice to Christ , to avoid suffering , Matt . xvi . 22 , than his Apostolic doctrine to ...
... sufferings come , their minds are as new and uncouth to it , as if they had not been told of it before hand . They like better St. Peter's carnal advice to Christ , to avoid suffering , Matt . xvi . 22 , than his Apostolic doctrine to ...
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... suffering does not credit their profession , but dishonours it . If they be patient under deserved suffering , their guiltiness darkens their patience : and if their sufferings be undeserved , yea , and the THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PETER . 5.
... suffering does not credit their profession , but dishonours it . If they be patient under deserved suffering , their guiltiness darkens their patience : and if their sufferings be undeserved , yea , and the THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PETER . 5.
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... suffering , their sufferings are in their perfect lustre . These are they who honour religion , and shame the enemies of it . It was the concurrence of these two that was the very triumph of the martyrs in times of persecution , that ...
... suffering , their sufferings are in their perfect lustre . These are they who honour religion , and shame the enemies of it . It was the concurrence of these two that was the very triumph of the martyrs in times of persecution , that ...
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Page 506 - I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD ; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin.
Page 380 - For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God : and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God ? 18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Page 613 - For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office; so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
Page 541 - Surely every man walketh in a vain shew : surely they are disquieted in vain : he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. And now, LORD, what wait I for ? my hope is- in Thee.
Page 576 - Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Page 484 - But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.
Page 201 - For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit...
Page 520 - OUT of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.
Page 563 - Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Page 563 - Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.