No Cross, No Crown: A Discourse Shewing the Nature and Discipline of the Holy Cross of Christ, and that the Denial of Self, and Daily Bearing of Christ's Cross, is the Alone Way to the Rest and Kingdom of God, to which are Added, the Living and Dying Testimonies of Many Persons of Fame and Learning, Both of Ancient and Modern Times, in Favour of this Treatise, in Two PartsW. Phillips, 1801 - 477 pages |
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... excellent Prince and . Conqueror . Besides , they advanced their em- pire by rapine and blood ; but he by suffering and perfuafion : he , never by compulsion , they always by force , prevailed . Mifery and flavery followed all their ...
... excellent Prince and . Conqueror . Besides , they advanced their em- pire by rapine and blood ; but he by suffering and perfuafion : he , never by compulsion , they always by force , prevailed . Mifery and flavery followed all their ...
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... excellent faith ! And whilst fo , the rewards of it you can never know . § . XIV . But Job preffes hard upon Abra- ham : his felf - denial alfo was very fignal . For when the meffengers of his afflictions came thick upon him , one ...
... excellent faith ! And whilst fo , the rewards of it you can never know . § . XIV . But Job preffes hard upon Abra- ham : his felf - denial alfo was very fignal . For when the meffengers of his afflictions came thick upon him , one ...
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... excellent man ! One would have thought , this repeated news of ruin had been enough to have overfet his confidence in God : but it did not ; that ftayed him . indeed he tells us why : his Redeemer lived ; I know , fays he , that my ...
... excellent man ! One would have thought , this repeated news of ruin had been enough to have overfet his confidence in God : but it did not ; that ftayed him . indeed he tells us why : his Redeemer lived ; I know , fays he , that my ...
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... excellent recom- pence . § . XVIII . Ifaiah * was no inconfiderable in- ftance of this bleffed felf - denial ; who of a courtier became a prophet , and left the worldly interefts of the one , for the faith , patience , and fufferings of ...
... excellent recom- pence . § . XVIII . Ifaiah * was no inconfiderable in- ftance of this bleffed felf - denial ; who of a courtier became a prophet , and left the worldly interefts of the one , for the faith , patience , and fufferings of ...
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... excellent and needful thing ; crowds and throngs were not much frequented by the ancient holy pilgrims . § . XIV . But then examine , O man , thy bottom , what it is , and who placed thee there ; left in the end it fhould appear , thou ...
... excellent and needful thing ; crowds and throngs were not much frequented by the ancient holy pilgrims . § . XIV . But then examine , O man , thy bottom , what it is , and who placed thee there ; left in the end it fhould appear , thou ...
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Page 100 - If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him; and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
Page 61 - The King's daughter is all glorious within ; her clothing is of wrought gold. She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needlework : the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
Page 380 - Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Page 84 - For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
Page 140 - Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Page 230 - Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel ; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Page 84 - Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation : my God will hear me.
Page 384 - Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: who, when he was reviled, reviled not again ; when he suffered he threatened not ; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously...
Page 231 - Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Page 56 - Lord, all his works in all places of his dominion : bless the Lord, O my soul. CIV. BLESS the Lord, O my soul : O Lord my God, thou art very great ; thou art clothed with honour and majesty. Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain : Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters : who maketh the clouds his chariot ; who walketh upon the wings of the wind...