Motives to gratitude: a sermon1798 |
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... divine grace and power , that both the teftimony of the Priest , and the confequent fatisfaction he must feel in making use of that teftimony , as an introduction to fociety , from which he had perhaps been long expelled , were lefs to ...
... divine grace and power , that both the teftimony of the Priest , and the confequent fatisfaction he must feel in making use of that teftimony , as an introduction to fociety , from which he had perhaps been long expelled , were lefs to ...
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... divine embrace , with filial feeling , cries " Whom have I in heaven but thee , and there is none upon the earth I defire befide thee ! My flesh and my heart fail ; but God is the ftrength of my heart , and my portion for ever ...
... divine embrace , with filial feeling , cries " Whom have I in heaven but thee , and there is none upon the earth I defire befide thee ! My flesh and my heart fail ; but God is the ftrength of my heart , and my portion for ever ...
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... divine providence towards us , from the days of helpless infancy , to the prefent hour . How hath his hand fupplied , and his arm fustained us ? With what tender and constant care hath he watched over us ? From what unnumbered evils ...
... divine providence towards us , from the days of helpless infancy , to the prefent hour . How hath his hand fupplied , and his arm fustained us ? With what tender and constant care hath he watched over us ? From what unnumbered evils ...
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... divine compaffion - this exuberance of the bounty of a God , need I go without thefe walls to find fuch as have often heard the love of God in Chrift Jefus read to them from the fcriptures , and declared from the pulpit , without any ...
... divine compaffion - this exuberance of the bounty of a God , need I go without thefe walls to find fuch as have often heard the love of God in Chrift Jefus read to them from the fcriptures , and declared from the pulpit , without any ...
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... that the means of decent fuftenance may be attained here with as little labor , and as much certainty as in any civilized nation that provifions are plentifully furnished - from from our own ifland , and that the divine goodness ( 17 )
... that the means of decent fuftenance may be attained here with as little labor , and as much certainty as in any civilized nation that provifions are plentifully furnished - from from our own ifland , and that the divine goodness ( 17 )
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Page 4 - And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified god. And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan. And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine? There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.
Page 17 - Kings of the earth, and all people ; Princes, and all judges of the earth : Both young men, and maidens ; Old men, and children: Let them praise the name of the LORD: For his name alone is excellent; His glory is above the earth and heaven.
Page 5 - And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off: and they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.
Page 18 - I heard a voice of many angels round about th« throne, and the beafts, and the elders: and the number of them was ten thoufand times ten thoufand, and thoufands of thoufands; faying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was flain, to receive power, and riches, and wifdom, and ftrength, and honour, and glory, and bleffing.
Page 15 - Kronus were thrown into the arms of a molten idol which stood in the midst of a large fire, and was red with heat. The arms of it were stretched out with the hands turned upwards, as it were to receive them, yet sloping downwards, so that they dropt from thence into a glowing furnace below. To other gods they were otherwise slaughtered, and, as it is implied, by the very hands of their parents.
Page 9 - My flefh and my heart faileth : but God is the ftrength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Page 13 - The people of Dumah in particular facrificed every year a child : and buried it underneath an altar, which they made ufe of inftead of an idol : For they did not admit of images. The Perfians buried people alive.
Page 5 - Synagogues, and preaching the gofpel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of ficknefs, and all manner of difeafe among the people.
Page 14 - Dumah in particular facrificed every year a child : and buried it underneath an altar, which they made ufe of inftead of an idol : For they did not admit of images. The Perfians buried people alive. Ameftris, the wife of Xerxes, entombed twelve perfons quick under ground for the good of her foul. It would be endlefs to enumerate every city, or every province, •where theie fad practices obtained.
Page 7 - God, who hath given them unto us ? The earth is the Lord's, and all that therein is ; the world, and they that dwell therein. He openeth his hand, and filleth all things living with his good blessing.