Sacramental Directory: Or, a Treatise Concerning the Sanctification of a Communion-sabbath. ... By the Reverend Mr. John Willison ...

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Sam. Willison and Matt. Jarvie. For Alexander Donaldson, 1761 - 311 pages

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Page 14 - But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise : and the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.
Page xxvii - Afk ye now, and fee whether a *' man doth travail with child ? Wherefore do " I fee every man with his hands on his loins, " as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned " into palenefs ? Alas ! for that day is great, " fo that none is like it ; it is even the time of " Jacob's trouble ; but he (hall be faved out of
Page 14 - ... them fpitefully, and flew them. But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth ; and he fent forth his armies, and deftroyed thofe murderers, and burnt up their city.
Page 230 - I will not feed you; that which dieth, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another.
Page 85 - If thou haft run with the footmen, and they have wearied ^ .«
Page xxi - God; that they must have a new principle to animate, and a new end to direct them before their actions become gracious and acceptable in the sight of God : And that they teach them the...
Page 86 - the days of mourning for my father are at hand, and then I will slay my brother Jacob.
Page xx - ... exhorting ministers to adhere to the scriptural definition of disputed or doubtful points, laid down in the standards of the national church, to " make it the great scope of their sermons, to lead sinners from a covenant of works to a covenant of grace, for life and salvation, and from sin and self to precious Christ ; and to insist not only upon the necessity and excellency of faith in Jesus Christ for salvation, but also upon the necessity of repentance for sin and reformation from it, and...
Page xxvi - Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us ? we looked for peace, and there is no good ; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble ! 20 We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers ; for we have sinned against thee.
Page 207 - ... the price of a sin ; thy soul shall do, thy Saviour did, when he cried out, to the amazement of angels, and horror of men ; " My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me ?" But now no more of this ; " It is finished :" the greater conflict, the more happy victory. Well doth he find and feel of his Father, what his type said before ; " He will not chide always, nor keep his anger for ever.

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