Village Sermons ...W.W. Woodward, 1817 |
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... thousands of times , when we have not seemed to others to sin . He also shews us the very great evil there is in sin . He shews us what abominable ingratitude there is in it ; for " God has nourished us , and brought us up as children ...
... thousands of times , when we have not seemed to others to sin . He also shews us the very great evil there is in sin . He shews us what abominable ingratitude there is in it ; for " God has nourished us , and brought us up as children ...
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... thousands , even in this Christian country , live like Atheists , and God is not in all their thoughts . O prodigious and lamentable stupidity ! Awake , O sleeper , arise , and call upon thy God , lest thou perish ! Where is thy ...
... thousands , even in this Christian country , live like Atheists , and God is not in all their thoughts . O prodigious and lamentable stupidity ! Awake , O sleeper , arise , and call upon thy God , lest thou perish ! Where is thy ...
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... thousands who are so proud of their good hearts and their good works , that they scorn to be indebted to Christ for his righteousness . They think themselves rich , and increased with goods , and that they stand in need of nothing ...
... thousands who are so proud of their good hearts and their good works , that they scorn to be indebted to Christ for his righteousness . They think themselves rich , and increased with goods , and that they stand in need of nothing ...
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... thousands walk together there ; But wisdom shows a narrower path , With here and there a traveller . " Deny thyself , and take thy cross , " Is the Redeemer's great command ! Nature must count her gold but dross , If she would gain the ...
... thousands walk together there ; But wisdom shows a narrower path , With here and there a traveller . " Deny thyself , and take thy cross , " Is the Redeemer's great command ! Nature must count her gold but dross , If she would gain the ...
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... thousands of things to be sins , which he never thought such before ; and he found sin had full power and life in him ; sin revived in his con- science ; he saw it in all its dreadful terror , as justly ex- posing him to the wrath of ...
... thousands of things to be sins , which he never thought such before ; and he found sin had full power and life in him ; sin revived in his con- science ; he saw it in all its dreadful terror , as justly ex- posing him to the wrath of ...
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Page 108 - ... the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of His indignation : and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb : and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever : and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
Page 134 - Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
Page 148 - But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord : for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ...
Page 265 - Howbeit, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
Page 304 - The condition of Man after the fall of Adam is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith, and calling upon God. Wherefore we have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.
Page 140 - The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this Publican.
Page 91 - His death and passion: and grant, that the grace of God, which bringeth salvation, may effectually teach and persuade me to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world...
Page 232 - The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
Page 286 - And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil.
Page 107 - For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit : the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.