The Christian Preacher: Or, Discourses on PreachingW.W. Woodward, 1810 - 334 pages |
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... prayer for gracious aids ; but rather to assit our graces , and to improve our gifts . I am fully sensible , that persons who have different views of RELIGION from those contained in this volume , will not be pleased with the selection ...
... prayer for gracious aids ; but rather to assit our graces , and to improve our gifts . I am fully sensible , that persons who have different views of RELIGION from those contained in this volume , will not be pleased with the selection ...
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... prayer , an humble heart , and an holy life.t 2. Such artificial abilities as are to be acquired by our own industry . And these are either more general , as skill in all those arts and languages which are requir ed as pre - requisites ...
... prayer , an humble heart , and an holy life.t 2. Such artificial abilities as are to be acquired by our own industry . And these are either more general , as skill in all those arts and languages which are requir ed as pre - requisites ...
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... prayer , seeking it from God , who is the fountain of all good ; setting apart some solemn time for our more particu- lar inquiry after it ; improving our abilities and oppor- tunities to this purpose , & c . More special ; according as ...
... prayer , seeking it from God , who is the fountain of all good ; setting apart some solemn time for our more particu- lar inquiry after it ; improving our abilities and oppor- tunities to this purpose , & c . More special ; according as ...
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... Prayer desires , Study and Medita- tion discover and digest . 1. Prayer ; that God would direct and enable us for the particular service that lies upon us . It was an usual saying of LUTHER , Bene orasse est bene studuisse ; he always ...
... Prayer desires , Study and Medita- tion discover and digest . 1. Prayer ; that God would direct and enable us for the particular service that lies upon us . It was an usual saying of LUTHER , Bene orasse est bene studuisse ; he always ...
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... prayer . § 11. Explain the gradual renewing of the mind . § 12. Represent the whole of christian faith and duty as amiable and attractive . § 13. Avoid prolixity in explaining the text , and hasten to the application . § 14. Use the ...
... prayer . § 11. Explain the gradual renewing of the mind . § 12. Represent the whole of christian faith and duty as amiable and attractive . § 13. Avoid prolixity in explaining the text , and hasten to the application . § 14. Use the ...
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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.