A Practical Commentary, Or an Exposition with Notes on the Epistle of James: Delivered in Sundry Weekly Lectures ...R. Gladding, 1840 - 454 pages |
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... truth receiving some savour from the vessel through which it passeth ; and yet I may speak it without arro- gance , some arguments thou wilt find improved for thy further edification ; and therefore I suppose ( though there be now some ...
... truth receiving some savour from the vessel through which it passeth ; and yet I may speak it without arro- gance , some arguments thou wilt find improved for thy further edification ; and therefore I suppose ( though there be now some ...
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... truth of doctrine or history . But this epistle hath nothing contrary to the truth of religion , nor unbeseeming the gravity of it and the majesty of other Scriptures . Therefore , upon the whole , we may pronounce , that , it being ...
... truth of doctrine or history . But this epistle hath nothing contrary to the truth of religion , nor unbeseeming the gravity of it and the majesty of other Scriptures . Therefore , upon the whole , we may pronounce , that , it being ...
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... truth , further the glory of Christ as Mediator . Fourthly , When all is done for Christ's sake . In Christ God hath a new claim in you , and ye are bought with his blood , that ye may be his servants . Under the Law the great argument ...
... truth , further the glory of Christ as Mediator . Fourthly , When all is done for Christ's sake . In Christ God hath a new claim in you , and ye are bought with his blood , that ye may be his servants . Under the Law the great argument ...
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... truth . They were punished , " as their congre- gation had heard , " as the prophet speaketh ( Hosea xi . 12 ) . In judicial dispensations , it is good to observe , not only God's justice , but God's truth . No calamity befel Israel ...
... truth . They were punished , " as their congre- gation had heard , " as the prophet speaketh ( Hosea xi . 12 ) . In judicial dispensations , it is good to observe , not only God's justice , but God's truth . No calamity befel Israel ...
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... truths of Christ . To you it is given to suffer " ( Phil . i . 29 ) . It is a gift and an act of free grace . To be ... truth ; and this will warrant our joy . So Christ himself , " When men say all man- ner of evil against you falsely ...
... truths of Christ . To you it is given to suffer " ( Phil . i . 29 ) . It is a gift and an act of free grace . To be ... truth ; and this will warrant our joy . So Christ himself , " When men say all man- ner of evil against you falsely ...
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Page 237 - And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
Page 430 - Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Page 145 - Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
Page 313 - Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God ? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world, is the enemy of God.
Page 436 - And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, And they shall hear the earth ; And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil ; And they shall hear Jezreel.
Page 376 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth : and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Page 36 - But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him ; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
Page 53 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Page 354 - See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me : I kill, and I make alive ; I wound and I heal ; neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
Page 419 - Is any sick among you? Let him call for the Elders of the Church ; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the Name of the LORD : and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the LORD shall raise him up ; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.