The Whole Works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel ...A. Weir & A. M'Lean, 1770 |
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... never use the creatures as their Lord's , till you come to fee your Lord , in and by them . I confefs the discoveries of God in the word are far more excellent , clear , and powerful ; " He hath magnified his word above all his " name ...
... never use the creatures as their Lord's , till you come to fee your Lord , in and by them . I confefs the discoveries of God in the word are far more excellent , clear , and powerful ; " He hath magnified his word above all his " name ...
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... never did any husbandman long for the defired harvest , more than God doth for the fruits of holiness from his faints Great are the expectations of God from his people : " And when the time of the fruit drew near , he fent his fer ...
... never did any husbandman long for the defired harvest , more than God doth for the fruits of holiness from his faints Great are the expectations of God from his people : " And when the time of the fruit drew near , he fent his fer ...
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... never yet understood the work of Christianity . Alas , my fleepy prayers , and formal duties , even all that ever I performed in my life , never coft me that pains , that one hour at plow hath done . I have either wholly neglected , or ...
... never yet understood the work of Christianity . Alas , my fleepy prayers , and formal duties , even all that ever I performed in my life , never coft me that pains , that one hour at plow hath done . I have either wholly neglected , or ...
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... never made it my business ? Will an empty ( though fplendid ) profeffion fave me ? How many brave fhips have perished in the storms , notwithstanding their fine names , the profperous , the fuccefs , the happy return ? A fine name could ...
... never made it my business ? Will an empty ( though fplendid ) profeffion fave me ? How many brave fhips have perished in the storms , notwithstanding their fine names , the profperous , the fuccefs , the happy return ? A fine name could ...
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... never drove A ferious trade for heav'n , may bankrupt prove : But holy fouls , which mind , and closely ply Their bus'nefs , greatly are enrich'd thereby ; The diff'rence ' twixt the one , and t ' other's best By fuch a fimile as this ...
... never drove A ferious trade for heav'n , may bankrupt prove : But holy fouls , which mind , and closely ply Their bus'nefs , greatly are enrich'd thereby ; The diff'rence ' twixt the one , and t ' other's best By fuch a fimile as this ...
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Page 19 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Page 107 - Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts : and then shall every man have praise of God.
Page 449 - Ye have sown much and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink ; ye clothe you, but there is none warm ; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
Page 40 - Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD : for great is the glory of the LORD.
Page 23 - And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal : that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
Page 373 - To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Page 450 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Page 393 - For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Page 74 - Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
Page 425 - For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.