Twenty-two Sermons ...T. Becket and P. A. DeHondt, 1766 - 555 pages |
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... disposition as you feen defcribed ? How amiable and excellent must we acknowledge it , and how chearful and conftant should our endeavours be to ac- quire it ; or to improve ourselves in it ? To value and defire knowledge , power or ...
... disposition as you feen defcribed ? How amiable and excellent must we acknowledge it , and how chearful and conftant should our endeavours be to ac- quire it ; or to improve ourselves in it ? To value and defire knowledge , power or ...
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... disposed to grieve , when we hear of the calamities of others , and much more when we fee them ; and to compaffionate and relieve the fufferers ? Do we not feel exquifite fatisfaction , when we can remove their forrows , exqui- 36 ...
... disposed to grieve , when we hear of the calamities of others , and much more when we fee them ; and to compaffionate and relieve the fufferers ? Do we not feel exquifite fatisfaction , when we can remove their forrows , exqui- 36 ...
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... dispose him to be fubmiffive to their guidance and reftraints . In fhort , it is not easy to con- ceive , or enumerate the mifchiefs to them- felves and to others , that must be expected from a number of fuch young creatures , poffeft ...
... dispose him to be fubmiffive to their guidance and reftraints . In fhort , it is not easy to con- ceive , or enumerate the mifchiefs to them- felves and to others , that must be expected from a number of fuch young creatures , poffeft ...
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... dispose them to confideration and an ingenuous repentance , gives us another inftance and proof of his goodness to finners . That these good things are granted to them with a kind intention of promoting their falvation , appears not ...
... dispose them to confideration and an ingenuous repentance , gives us another inftance and proof of his goodness to finners . That these good things are granted to them with a kind intention of promoting their falvation , appears not ...
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... disposition ; and to do all the good we can in our various places and relations . And if God , who is the best , be alfo the happiest of beings , the more we advance in this difpofition , the happier we shall be in ourselves , as well ...
... disposition ; and to do all the good we can in our various places and relations . And if God , who is the best , be alfo the happiest of beings , the more we advance in this difpofition , the happier we shall be in ourselves , as well ...
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Page 253 - But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
Page 40 - For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward them that fear Him. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath He removed our transgressions from us.
Page 439 - And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?
Page 148 - O LORD, how manifold are Thy works : in wisdom hast Thou made them all ; the earth is full of Thy riches. So is the great and wide sea also : wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
Page 30 - Can a woman forget her sucking child, That she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, Yet will I not forget thee.
Page 315 - Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Page 432 - But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; who will render to every man according to his deeds...
Page 40 - Lord say so, whom he hath delivered from the merciless rage of the sea. The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion » slow to anger, and of great mercy.
Page 10 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.