Sermons and Tracts, Volume 3George Wilson, 1826 |
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... live a life of holiness , spirituality , prayer , humility , and good works . But the Bible not only thus acts upon the heart of man generally , but it acts thus in the case of the most simple and ignorant . It is said to MAKE WISE THE ...
... live a life of holiness , spirituality , prayer , humility , and good works . But the Bible not only thus acts upon the heart of man generally , but it acts thus in the case of the most simple and ignorant . It is said to MAKE WISE THE ...
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... live , as it were , on the mere surface of the Gospel , and of course will find no scriptural joy . But the peni- tent discovers in the Scriptures a constant theme of delight ; and in this he indulges in proportion to his real ...
... live , as it were , on the mere surface of the Gospel , and of course will find no scriptural joy . But the peni- tent discovers in the Scriptures a constant theme of delight ; and in this he indulges in proportion to his real ...
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... LIVES . · This influence is , after all , the most astonishing proof of its virtue , and that in which all other proofs end . The doctrine of the crucifixion is eminently the power of God , because it is the only doctrine which , being ...
... LIVES . · This influence is , after all , the most astonishing proof of its virtue , and that in which all other proofs end . The doctrine of the crucifixion is eminently the power of God , because it is the only doctrine which , being ...
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... lives of men but by die soetine of the Cross ? What hare beaten ettles , or district meris , or vin philosophy , or human suasion , or petter dee- res done 2 reach and gia the heart ! E de Jews should have their sign from heaven , if ...
... lives of men but by die soetine of the Cross ? What hare beaten ettles , or district meris , or vin philosophy , or human suasion , or petter dee- res done 2 reach and gia the heart ! E de Jews should have their sign from heaven , if ...
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... live agreeably to it . It has been thus in every age . The same contempt which attended our Saviour , his Apostles , and their immediate followers , will assuredly in a measure be visited upon us , if we imbibe their spirit and tread in ...
... live agreeably to it . It has been thus in every age . The same contempt which attended our Saviour , his Apostles , and their immediate followers , will assuredly in a measure be visited upon us , if we imbibe their spirit and tread in ...
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Page 309 - For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Page 509 - Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
Page 166 - Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience : Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind ; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Page 349 - Will the Lord cast off for ever? And will he be favourable no more ? Is his mercy clean gone for ever ? Doth his promise fail for evermore ? Hath God forgotten to be gracious ? Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies...
Page 323 - And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, I will lead them in paths that they have not known : I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake . them.
Page 357 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 85 - Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him ; he hath put him to grief: When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, He shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
Page 395 - Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Page 49 - Who hath saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began...
Page 16 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding; for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.