Elisha Lamenting After the God of Elijah: A Funeral Sermon Preach'd at Boston, March 27. 1737. Occasion'd by the Death of the Reverend Mr. Benjamin Wadsworth, Late President of Harvard-College in Cambridge, and Formerly Pastor of the Old Church in Boston. Who Departed this Life on March 16th. Having Just Enter'd the 68th Year of His AgeT. Fleet, 1737 - 69 pages |
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... Happiness to the reasonable Creature ; and a God in Covenant with his People , true and ftedfaft for ever , willing and able and faithful to give Being to his Pro- mifes , and Birth to the Purposes of His Will . He that cometh unto God ...
... Happiness to the reasonable Creature ; and a God in Covenant with his People , true and ftedfaft for ever , willing and able and faithful to give Being to his Pro- mifes , and Birth to the Purposes of His Will . He that cometh unto God ...
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... Happiness . Blessed is the Man , O LORD , whom Thou chufest and caufeft to approach unto Thee . " The LORD is my Shepherd ; I fhall not want : Yea , tho ' I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death , I will fear no Evil ; for Thou ...
... Happiness . Blessed is the Man , O LORD , whom Thou chufest and caufeft to approach unto Thee . " The LORD is my Shepherd ; I fhall not want : Yea , tho ' I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death , I will fear no Evil ; for Thou ...
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... , ing due Acknowledgements to Him , and feeking their Happiness in Him , as God , who is above all , bleffed for evermore . Thus , the LORD GOD of Elijah I_W ( in ( in our Text ) : means the fupreme Being 18 A Funeral Sermon.
... , ing due Acknowledgements to Him , and feeking their Happiness in Him , as God , who is above all , bleffed for evermore . Thus , the LORD GOD of Elijah I_W ( in ( in our Text ) : means the fupreme Being 18 A Funeral Sermon.
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... Happiness . But there is a tranfcendent and very peculiar Senfe in which Jehovah is call'd the Gop of Elijah , with other the faithful Saints and Servants of the Lord . Here we may diftinguish , and fay briefly , ( 1. ) Confider Elijah ...
... Happiness . But there is a tranfcendent and very peculiar Senfe in which Jehovah is call'd the Gop of Elijah , with other the faithful Saints and Servants of the Lord . Here we may diftinguish , and fay briefly , ( 1. ) Confider Elijah ...
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... Happiness : He is their actual , as well as chofen Patron here , and Portion here- after As they follow Him with their whole Souls , fo He loves them and feeks their Good with his whole Heart , and they are kept by the Power of God thro ...
... Happiness : He is their actual , as well as chofen Patron here , and Portion here- after As they follow Him with their whole Souls , fo He loves them and feeks their Good with his whole Heart , and they are kept by the Power of God thro ...
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Page 21 - Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
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