Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel, Volume 5J. Mathews, 1799 |
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... use and service of man . Meditation upon this lower part of the works of God , and his wonderful providences about them , may raise our fouls very high ; and while we wifely confider these natural things , we To the Chriflian Reader .
... use and service of man . Meditation upon this lower part of the works of God , and his wonderful providences about them , may raise our fouls very high ; and while we wifely confider these natural things , we To the Chriflian Reader .
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... uses , than a mere diverfion , when thou canft find leifure to perufe it . I know , your troubles and cares are many ; and though your con- dition of life hath many innocent comforts and outward mercies to fweeten it , yet I believe ...
... uses , than a mere diverfion , when thou canft find leifure to perufe it . I know , your troubles and cares are many ; and though your con- dition of life hath many innocent comforts and outward mercies to fweeten it , yet I believe ...
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... use , 2 Tim . ii . 21. Wherein confifts the honour of angels but in this , that they are miniftering fpirits , ferviceable creatures ? And all the apostles gloried in the title of fervants . The lowest of fice in which a man can serve ...
... use , 2 Tim . ii . 21. Wherein confifts the honour of angels but in this , that they are miniftering fpirits , ferviceable creatures ? And all the apostles gloried in the title of fervants . The lowest of fice in which a man can serve ...
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... thy journey , that thou art fo folicitous about the world ? Thy profeffion indeed fpeaks thee a stranger upon earth , but thy conver fation a home - dweller . Erafmus faid he defired The Heavenly Use of Earthly Things . 45.
... thy journey , that thou art fo folicitous about the world ? Thy profeffion indeed fpeaks thee a stranger upon earth , but thy conver fation a home - dweller . Erafmus faid he defired The Heavenly Use of Earthly Things . 45.
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... use and service ; but if you should bind A bundle of them to his back , they'll make Him flack his pace and cry , my shoulders ach . I am a traveller , this world's my way , A single staff may be of use to stay My feeble body , if it do ...
... use and service ; but if you should bind A bundle of them to his back , they'll make Him flack his pace and cry , my shoulders ach . I am a traveller , this world's my way , A single staff may be of use to stay My feeble body , if it do ...
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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.