Sermons Preached to a Country Congregation: To which is Added, A Few Hints for Sermons ...J.B. Rutter, 1800 |
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... pleasure ? If so , they plainly fhew , in what light they confider their duty to God . Perfons of this kind , who think every thing an excufe for neglecting the worship of God , would take it very ill , were they to fuppofe their bodies ...
... pleasure ? If so , they plainly fhew , in what light they confider their duty to God . Perfons of this kind , who think every thing an excufe for neglecting the worship of God , would take it very ill , were they to fuppofe their bodies ...
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... pleasures , which arife , in any fhape , from vice . Various pleasures there are of this defcription . The world is a wide field ; and in every part of it they abound . But felf - denial not only checks fin ; it checks imprudence alfo ...
... pleasures , which arife , in any fhape , from vice . Various pleasures there are of this defcription . The world is a wide field ; and in every part of it they abound . But felf - denial not only checks fin ; it checks imprudence alfo ...
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... pleasure in hoarding his money , he is extravagant only under a different One man spends his money abroad ; ano- ther spends it in his cheft . name . In fine , he who wishes to regulate his life by this grand principle , denies himself ...
... pleasure in hoarding his money , he is extravagant only under a different One man spends his money abroad ; ano- ther spends it in his cheft . name . In fine , he who wishes to regulate his life by this grand principle , denies himself ...
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... pleasures ; it is time to check it . It is commendable to provide prudently for your fami- lies but if you find , as your goods increase , that you feel a love for money growing upon you , it is- time for felf - denial . Thus too in a ...
... pleasures ; it is time to check it . It is commendable to provide prudently for your fami- lies but if you find , as your goods increase , that you feel a love for money growing upon you , it is- time for felf - denial . Thus too in a ...
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... pleasure , could afford them little ground of trial : and yet that they fhould be placed in fome trial was God's intention . Nothing can be conceived more fuited to their peculiar circum- ftances , than the fimple trial , in which they ...
... pleasure , could afford them little ground of trial : and yet that they fhould be placed in fome trial was God's intention . Nothing can be conceived more fuited to their peculiar circum- ftances , than the fimple trial , in which they ...
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Page 75 - And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
Page 188 - So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.
Page 238 - O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness ; and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men...
Page 229 - But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him ; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet : and bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it ; and let us eat, and be merry : For this my son was dead, and is alive again ; he was lost, and is found.
Page 360 - For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently ? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
Page 448 - Chrift : 0 wretched man that I am, who Jhall deliver me from the body of this death ! I thank God through Jtj-iu Chrift our Lord.
Page 336 - He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
Page 454 - Suspend the effect, or heal it ? Has not God Still wrought by means since first He made the world, And did He not of old employ His means To drown it ? What is His creation less Than a capacious reservoir of means Form'd for His use, and ready at His will...
Page 160 - And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him ; Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.
Page 468 - And, in the fame epiftle, chap. iii. 18, he thus defcribes the progrefs of the chriftian life, " But we all, with open face, beholding, as in a. glafs^ the " "glory of the Lord, are changed into the fame image, " from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.