The Christian Preacher: Or, Discourses on PreachingW.W. Woodward, 1810 - 334 pages |
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... kind are such as are raised from the occasion , connection , manner , circumstances , order , or denomina- tion of the text ; as , whether it be a precept , exhortation , threat , promise , petition , deprecation , similitude , & c ...
... kind are such as are raised from the occasion , connection , manner , circumstances , order , or denomina- tion of the text ; as , whether it be a precept , exhortation , threat , promise , petition , deprecation , similitude , & c ...
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... kind of sensible evidence , must needs be powerful for conviction ; when we can appeal for the truth of what we assert to the observation of any consi- derate man , who hath been careful to take notice of the usual course of things ...
... kind of sensible evidence , must needs be powerful for conviction ; when we can appeal for the truth of what we assert to the observation of any consi- derate man , who hath been careful to take notice of the usual course of things ...
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... , to contract such a kind of hardiness as become , a militant state , & c . * Rom . xv . 4 . † 1 Tim . iv . 13. Seë Isa . xl . 1 . 0124 The matter of consolation may also refer to inwara sufferings 34 THE CHRISTIAN PREACHER .
... , to contract such a kind of hardiness as become , a militant state , & c . * Rom . xv . 4 . † 1 Tim . iv . 13. Seë Isa . xl . 1 . 0124 The matter of consolation may also refer to inwara sufferings 34 THE CHRISTIAN PREACHER .
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... kind ; namely , the perusal of such books as give a particular account of all authors , the times when they lived , the works they have pub- lished , with the several subjects they have insisted upon , their editors , translations , & c ...
... kind ; namely , the perusal of such books as give a particular account of all authors , the times when they lived , the works they have pub- lished , with the several subjects they have insisted upon , their editors , translations , & c ...
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... kind of self - deceit is so very common , it is highly necessary for a minister to instruct his hearers , with all possible plainness in the duty of self - examination ; and very often to exhort them to it : as more especially to ...
... kind of self - deceit is so very common , it is highly necessary for a minister to instruct his hearers , with all possible plainness in the duty of self - examination ; and very often to exhort them to it : as more especially to ...
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Page 136 - If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
Page 156 - Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life: the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Page 55 - Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.
Page 70 - Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
Page 175 - Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, and saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God cast thyself down ; for it is written He shall give his angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Page 68 - ... for ye are yet carnal : for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal...
Page 149 - Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; That I might leave my people, and go from them ! For they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Page 224 - For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake ; 30 Having the same conflict "which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
Page 126 - Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. 9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
Page 308 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.