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... miserable world . The sufferings of perdition are more nume- rous and more distressing than any which are undergone by piety , in its struggles to secure the everlasting love of God . Eternity is more enduring than time ; and our future ...
... miserable world . The sufferings of perdition are more nume- rous and more distressing than any which are undergone by piety , in its struggles to secure the everlasting love of God . Eternity is more enduring than time ; and our future ...
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... miserable for ever . Each has a soul , committed to his own peculiar care . The value of that soul is inconceivable . It is infinite . The world , nay the universe , weighed against it is nothing . To each also it is his all . It claims ...
... miserable for ever . Each has a soul , committed to his own peculiar care . The value of that soul is inconceivable . It is infinite . The world , nay the universe , weighed against it is nothing . To each also it is his all . It claims ...
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... miserable subjection to your passions and appetites ; your sottish devotion to amusement and pleasure . What is to be the end of this career ? Will it prepare you for death ? Will it enable you to leave the world with hope ; and to give ...
... miserable subjection to your passions and appetites ; your sottish devotion to amusement and pleasure . What is to be the end of this career ? Will it prepare you for death ? Will it enable you to leave the world with hope ; and to give ...
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... miserable companions , hailing your ap- proach to their own melancholy doom ? Look forward to the events of a year to come , and tell me what emotions it must excite in your minds , to remember , at the close of it , that during this ...
... miserable companions , hailing your ap- proach to their own melancholy doom ? Look forward to the events of a year to come , and tell me what emotions it must excite in your minds , to remember , at the close of it , that during this ...
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... miserable condition of an impenitent sinner , be- fore he is awakened to a serious conviction of his guilt . " When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man . " From this clause we learn that , to the eye of God , the soul of such a man ...
... miserable condition of an impenitent sinner , be- fore he is awakened to a serious conviction of his guilt . " When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man . " From this clause we learn that , to the eye of God , the soul of such a man ...
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Page 272 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it ? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes...
Page 466 - And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory : and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name.
Page vii - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 31 - Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
Page 466 - But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not : for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name ; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee ; . and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee : when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned ; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour : I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia...
Page 80 - And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
Page ix - And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it : and if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
Page 462 - Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, ** And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page 184 - Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
Page 199 - He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he that is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.