Sermons Translated from the Original French of the Late Rev. James Saurin ..., Volume 2L. Nichols, 1804 |
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... taken from the grand advan- tages that attend the knowledge of it , animate you to walk in it . I. We will examine what it cost to know truth . II . What truth is worth . Our text is buy the truth , and the title of our sermon shall be ...
... taken from the grand advan- tages that attend the knowledge of it , animate you to walk in it . I. We will examine what it cost to know truth . II . What truth is worth . Our text is buy the truth , and the title of our sermon shall be ...
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... taken in the sense we have now given it , is one of those abstract terms , the precise meaning of which can never be ascertained , without determining the object to which it is at- tributed . There is a truth in every art and science ...
... taken in the sense we have now given it , is one of those abstract terms , the precise meaning of which can never be ascertained , without determining the object to which it is at- tributed . There is a truth in every art and science ...
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... taken from the nature of the human mind , which is finite , and contracted within a narrow sphere . We have only a portion of genius . If , while we are examining a com- pound proposition , we do not proportion our atten- tion to the ...
... taken from the nature of the human mind , which is finite , and contracted within a narrow sphere . We have only a portion of genius . If , while we are examining a com- pound proposition , we do not proportion our atten- tion to the ...
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... taken up with stu- dying the truth ; whereas health , the world , the passions , disperse , ( so to speak , ) our attention , and , by dissipating , weaken it . VOL . II . I add further , Dissipation is one ordinary source , THE PRICE ...
... taken up with stu- dying the truth ; whereas health , the world , the passions , disperse , ( so to speak , ) our attention , and , by dissipating , weaken it . VOL . II . I add further , Dissipation is one ordinary source , THE PRICE ...
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... taken up with a circle of tem- poral objects ; it is because the hurry of the world incessantly deafens them . Ignorance and error are inseparable from dissipation . Be attentive , then , is the first precept we give you . The sacrifice ...
... taken up with a circle of tem- poral objects ; it is because the hurry of the world incessantly deafens them . Ignorance and error are inseparable from dissipation . Be attentive , then , is the first precept we give you . The sacrifice ...
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Page 182 - For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
Page 408 - Samuel said, hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken, than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.
Page 382 - If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to do less or more.
Page 228 - I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain :" yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.
Page 119 - These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not; but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Page 201 - The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the Lord doeth valiantly.
Page 185 - He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.
Page 122 - But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me. 21. But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.
Page 63 - For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
Page 265 - They have Moses and the Prophets ; let them hear them . . . If they hear not Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead.