Sermons on several subjects, Volume 1T. Payne and Son ... and T. Cadell, 1783 - 429 pages |
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... hand , fink them not too low . Because the scriptures fay , that to keep the commandments of God , is to love God , therefore too many are willing to conclude that no degree of inward affection need ac- company our outward obedience ...
... hand , fink them not too low . Because the scriptures fay , that to keep the commandments of God , is to love God , therefore too many are willing to conclude that no degree of inward affection need ac- company our outward obedience ...
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... afflictions , that have befallen you ? Have you confidered them as the corrections of his fatherly hand , and submitted without a murmur to all the difpenfations difpenfations of his providence ? Have you , in fine SERMON I. * 3.
... afflictions , that have befallen you ? Have you confidered them as the corrections of his fatherly hand , and submitted without a murmur to all the difpenfations difpenfations of his providence ? Have you , in fine SERMON I. * 3.
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... hands . A man without any religion at all may do good occafionally , may act laudably by chance ; his virtue may break out sometimes in fudden temporary gleams ; but whoever wishes to be habitually and uniformly good , must have the ...
... hands . A man without any religion at all may do good occafionally , may act laudably by chance ; his virtue may break out sometimes in fudden temporary gleams ; but whoever wishes to be habitually and uniformly good , must have the ...
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... hand must have re- moved the film from her eyes ; and what other hand could this be than that gracious beneficent one , which gave eyes to the blind , and feet to the lame ; which helped the im- potence , and healed the infirmity , of ...
... hand must have re- moved the film from her eyes ; and what other hand could this be than that gracious beneficent one , which gave eyes to the blind , and feet to the lame ; which helped the im- potence , and healed the infirmity , of ...
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... go- ing to execution , to put into his hands a compleat collection of the laws of his country , when the poor wretch perhaps ex- * Gen. i , 16 . ↑ John i . 9 . 5 pected pected a reprieve . It could ferve no other purpose 30 II . SERMON.
... go- ing to execution , to put into his hands a compleat collection of the laws of his country , when the poor wretch perhaps ex- * Gen. i , 16 . ↑ John i . 9 . 5 pected pected a reprieve . It could ferve no other purpose 30 II . SERMON.
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Page 377 - The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Page 247 - Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men...
Page 71 - Thus saith the Lord , Hast thou killed , and also taken possession ? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
Page 257 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Page 219 - For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom ; but we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness ; but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
Page 32 - And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds •were evil. For every one that doth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Page 356 - For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
Page 319 - Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice ; and be ye kind one to another, tender hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Page 171 - Ye lust, and have not ; ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain ; ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not ; ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Page 407 - Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he...