Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel, Volume 5J. Mathews, 1799 |
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Page 51
... fall in- to fuch a state ; how unlike am I to what I once was ! Surely , as the old men wept when they saw how fhort the second temple came of the glory of the first ; fo may I fit down and weep bitterly , to confider how much my first ...
... fall in- to fuch a state ; how unlike am I to what I once was ! Surely , as the old men wept when they saw how fhort the second temple came of the glory of the first ; fo may I fit down and weep bitterly , to confider how much my first ...
Page 56
... fall upon the foul . ( 2. ) It is the feverest stroke God can inflict upon the foul in this life to give it up to barrenness ; because it cuts off all hopes , fruf- trates all means , nothing can be a bieffing to him . If one comes from ...
... fall upon the foul . ( 2. ) It is the feverest stroke God can inflict upon the foul in this life to give it up to barrenness ; because it cuts off all hopes , fruf- trates all means , nothing can be a bieffing to him . If one comes from ...
Page 60
... falls , by fo much more the worse . Even fo the dews of grace that fweetly fall , From gofpel - clouds , are not alike to all . The gracious foul doth germinate and bud , But to the reprobate it doth no good . He's like the wither'd fig ...
... falls , by fo much more the worse . Even fo the dews of grace that fweetly fall , From gofpel - clouds , are not alike to all . The gracious foul doth germinate and bud , But to the reprobate it doth no good . He's like the wither'd fig ...
Page 72
... fall upon my heart ? O my God ! how much foever others are elated by the light of their knowledge , I have caufe , with humi- lity to adore thee for the heavenly heat with which thou haft warmed my affections . Paufe a while , my foul ...
... fall upon my heart ? O my God ! how much foever others are elated by the light of their knowledge , I have caufe , with humi- lity to adore thee for the heavenly heat with which thou haft warmed my affections . Paufe a while , my foul ...
Page 76
... falls by divine direction and appoint- ment : " He caufes it to rain upon one city , and not upon another , " Amos ... fall upon the earth . Sometimes you have an hafty fhower , which makes the ways float , and the ftreets run , but it ...
... falls by divine direction and appoint- ment : " He caufes it to rain upon one city , and not upon another , " Amos ... fall upon the earth . Sometimes you have an hafty fhower , which makes the ways float , and the ftreets run , but it ...
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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 608 - Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
Page 398 - 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 78 - Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified...
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 496 - Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me : my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
Page 303 - Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God ? Be not deceived : neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Page 399 - 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 68 - And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost: 7 So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.
Page 225 - But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart, and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man ; but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.