The Whole Works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel ...A. Weir & A. M'Lean, 1770 |
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... look up to God for his guidance and illumination , and to fpend many fad and terious thoughts before he adven- * ture upon a determination and conclufion of the state of ❝ his foul . " To the end therefore that this most important work ...
... look up to God for his guidance and illumination , and to fpend many fad and terious thoughts before he adven- * ture upon a determination and conclufion of the state of ❝ his foul . " To the end therefore that this most important work ...
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... Look often upon Chrift in this glafs ; he is fairer than the children of men . View him believingly , and you cannot but like and love him . " For ( as one well Ep . S. R. " faith ) love , when it feeth , cannot but cast out " its ...
... Look often upon Chrift in this glafs ; he is fairer than the children of men . View him believingly , and you cannot but like and love him . " For ( as one well Ep . S. R. " faith ) love , when it feeth , cannot but cast out " its ...
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... Look- ing to Jefus . And fuch is the deliciousness of this fubject , that , were there ten thousand volumes written upon it , they would never cloy , or become naufeous to a gracious heart . We ufe to fay , one thing tires , and ' tis ...
... Look- ing to Jefus . And fuch is the deliciousness of this fubject , that , were there ten thousand volumes written upon it , they would never cloy , or become naufeous to a gracious heart . We ufe to fay , one thing tires , and ' tis ...
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... look upon other mens gifts without envy , as it is to look upon their own with- out pride : nor will I be any further concerned with fuch readers , than to pity them ; well knowing that every proud contempt and envious cenfure is a ...
... look upon other mens gifts without envy , as it is to look upon their own with- out pride : nor will I be any further concerned with fuch readers , than to pity them ; well knowing that every proud contempt and envious cenfure is a ...
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... look to it , as thou va- lueft thy foul , reader , that a fond and groundless conceit of thine intereft in Chrift do not effectually and finally obftruct a true and saving interest in him . This is the common and fatal error in which ...
... look to it , as thou va- lueft thy foul , reader , that a fond and groundless conceit of thine intereft in Chrift do not effectually and finally obftruct a true and saving interest in him . This is the common and fatal error in which ...
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Popular passages
Page 260 - I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Page 468 - Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
Page 119 - And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight.
Page vi - For behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps...
Page 267 - 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...
Page 396 - But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
Page 309 - The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him : but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
Page 295 - For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red ; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
Page 447 - Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends ; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Page 92 - And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor...