Pastoral advice to young men, particularly those in country villages, in 7 sermons |
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... conduct . Remember God as your Redeemer . When you , together with all the rest of mankind , were in a lost state through sin , God was mercifully pleased to redeem — to save you from that state , by giving his Son Jesus Christ to die ...
... conduct . Remember God as your Redeemer . When you , together with all the rest of mankind , were in a lost state through sin , God was mercifully pleased to redeem — to save you from that state , by giving his Son Jesus Christ to die ...
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... conduct shews a want of good sense , as well as of religious principle and feeling . Those who are guilty of it should consider the holy place in which they are , and learn to shew more reverence for the sanctuary of God . Nothing ...
... conduct shews a want of good sense , as well as of religious principle and feeling . Those who are guilty of it should consider the holy place in which they are , and learn to shew more reverence for the sanctuary of God . Nothing ...
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... conduct he calls setting aside the commandments of God . But how infinitely worse is it for a young man to refuse to do ought for his father or his mother , in order that he may spend all upon himself , may consume it upon his own lusts ...
... conduct he calls setting aside the commandments of God . But how infinitely worse is it for a young man to refuse to do ought for his father or his mother , in order that he may spend all upon himself , may consume it upon his own lusts ...
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... conduct governed by the laws of sound reason and genuine re- ligion - by a regard to the will of God - such conduct will have a satisfactory influence upon all who asso- ciate with them . They will become more and more confirmed in good ...
... conduct governed by the laws of sound reason and genuine re- ligion - by a regard to the will of God - such conduct will have a satisfactory influence upon all who asso- ciate with them . They will become more and more confirmed in good ...
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... conduct . They should rather remember the solemn injunctions of Scripture , Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil . The example of numbers fur- nishes no excuse for bad conduct , nor will it lessen the punishment of guilt ...
... conduct . They should rather remember the solemn injunctions of Scripture , Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil . The example of numbers fur- nishes no excuse for bad conduct , nor will it lessen the punishment of guilt ...
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Page 49 - And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares ; for as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
Page 80 - DEFEND, O Lord, this thy child [or this thy servant] with thy heavenly grace, that he may continue thine for ever; and daily increase in thy Holy Spirit, more and more, until he come unto thy everlasting kingdom.
Page 32 - But now I have' written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Page 17 - If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them...
Page 63 - He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Page 78 - Now them that are such we command and exhort, by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
Page 77 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Page 66 - Know ye not, that your bodies are the members of Christ ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
Page 53 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord JESUS CHRIST, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 35 - But above all things, my brethren, swear not; neither by heaven, neither by the earth, | neither by any other oath : but let your yea, be yea; and your nay, nay ; lest ye fall into condemnation.