Sermons on Various Subjects, Evangelical, Devotional and Practical: Adapted to the Promotion of Christian Piety, Family Religion, and Youthful Virtue, Volume 1by Isaiah Thomas, Jun.; Sold at his respective bookstores in Boston and Worcester., 1809 - Congregational churches |
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... enjoy , and praise him ? " This question has been asked , and urged as an objection against the lateness of creation . But the objection , if it may be called one , can re- spect only that part of creation of which Moses has given an ...
... enjoy , and praise him ? " This question has been asked , and urged as an objection against the lateness of creation . But the objection , if it may be called one , can re- spect only that part of creation of which Moses has given an ...
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... enjoy- ments , and with the means of obtaining higher en- joyments hereafter , is to be contemplated with gratitude ... enjoyed for a while , and which , if you had never enjoyed them , you never would have desired . Strike out also your ...
... enjoy- ments , and with the means of obtaining higher en- joyments hereafter , is to be contemplated with gratitude ... enjoyed for a while , and which , if you had never enjoyed them , you never would have desired . Strike out also your ...
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... enjoyed some peculiar privileges in their captivity , especially the privilege of exercising their own religion , and at- tending the ministrations of their prophets . Some of their prophets and priests , men of distinguished abilities ...
... enjoyed some peculiar privileges in their captivity , especially the privilege of exercising their own religion , and at- tending the ministrations of their prophets . Some of their prophets and priests , men of distinguished abilities ...
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... enjoyed , were ultimately designed for general bene- fit , God would preserve the nation to whose care he had committed them . Had these sacred writings been extinguished by the destruction of the present possessors of God works for his ...
... enjoyed , were ultimately designed for general bene- fit , God would preserve the nation to whose care he had committed them . Had these sacred writings been extinguished by the destruction of the present possessors of God works for his ...
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... enjoy prosperity , imagine not , that heaven gives it for your sake , either for your worthiness , or solely for your use ; but remember that God distri- butes the bounties of his providence , with a sove- reign hand , to the just and ...
... enjoy prosperity , imagine not , that heaven gives it for your sake , either for your worthiness , or solely for your use ; but remember that God distri- butes the bounties of his providence , with a sove- reign hand , to the just and ...
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Page 54 - Thou hast ordained ; what is man, that Thou art mindful of him ? and the son of man, that Thou visitest him ? For Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet...
Page 85 - I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen : but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.
Page 352 - And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.
Page 38 - Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy ; that they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate, laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Page 37 - For the love of Christ constraineth us —because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead ; and that he died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him who died for them and rose again.
Page 398 - And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it : I pray thee have me excused.
Page 327 - For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of GOD, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Page 319 - Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts : for the Coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
Page 382 - Go to now, ye that say, 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. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Page 298 - And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure. They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.