A Course of Lectures for Sunday Evenings: Containing Religious Advice to Young Persons, Volume 2O.A. Roorback, 1829 |
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... wicked , but may de- pend upon the full vindication of your cha . racter from Almighty Goodness ; and if he should see fit to prove your virtue by delay , yet of this you may rest assured , that in the day of future recompence , your ...
... wicked , but may de- pend upon the full vindication of your cha . racter from Almighty Goodness ; and if he should see fit to prove your virtue by delay , yet of this you may rest assured , that in the day of future recompence , your ...
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... wicked , " Who can know it ? " and it certainly requires a very minute and painful scrutiny , to become acquainted with ourselves . When we begin the important examination , we are apt to find so many disagreeable circumstances to ...
... wicked , " Who can know it ? " and it certainly requires a very minute and painful scrutiny , to become acquainted with ourselves . When we begin the important examination , we are apt to find so many disagreeable circumstances to ...
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... wicked , though it was frustra- ted by his immediate escape . If we nourish the seeds of vice , they will in time shoot forth into bad actions ; nor is it possible we can be too cautious to suppress the first emo- tions of 28 LECTURE XXXV .
... wicked , though it was frustra- ted by his immediate escape . If we nourish the seeds of vice , they will in time shoot forth into bad actions ; nor is it possible we can be too cautious to suppress the first emo- tions of 28 LECTURE XXXV .
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... , we should always aim at perfection . The best men you have seen have yielded to their infirmities ; but it is only the wicked who suffer these infirmities habitually to prevail . Peter never after ON SELF - EXAMINATION . 31.
... , we should always aim at perfection . The best men you have seen have yielded to their infirmities ; but it is only the wicked who suffer these infirmities habitually to prevail . Peter never after ON SELF - EXAMINATION . 31.
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... wicked is darkness in every particular , and they know not at what they stumble . But those who , by good temper and uniform virtue , comply with the VOL . II . E design of God , shall find as much comfort in ON GOOD TEMPER . 45 On ...
... wicked is darkness in every particular , and they know not at what they stumble . But those who , by good temper and uniform virtue , comply with the VOL . II . E design of God , shall find as much comfort in ON GOOD TEMPER . 45 On ...
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Page 194 - For I have received of the LORD that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord JESUS, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread ; and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat ; this is my body, which is broken for you : this do in remembrance of me.
Page 203 - And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard : I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; And break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down...
Page 64 - God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, the Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
Page 96 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.
Page 191 - And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body, which is given for you : this do in remembrance of me. Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
Page 20 - And Jesus saith unto him, Verily I say unto thee, that this day, even in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice.
Page 182 - But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Page 240 - Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them : for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
Page 202 - Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, And planted it with the choicest vine, And built a tower in the midst of it, And also made a winepress therein: And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, And it brought forth wild grapes.
Page 248 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.