Sermons Preached in the Chapel Royal at Whitehall, During the Years 1841, 1842, and 1843 ...John Murray, 1844 - 241 pages |
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... happiness to man , to be thus perverted oftentimes into an occasion of sin , we are vainly curious ; for we are trespassing on the great mystery of natural , no less than revealed reli- gion , the permitted existence of evil in a world ...
... happiness to man , to be thus perverted oftentimes into an occasion of sin , we are vainly curious ; for we are trespassing on the great mystery of natural , no less than revealed reli- gion , the permitted existence of evil in a world ...
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... happiness , and union , and social order which Christianity would promote , and recognise no higher object in their Redeemer's mission . The same results they would value equally if effected in any other way ; but they know from ...
... happiness , and union , and social order which Christianity would promote , and recognise no higher object in their Redeemer's mission . The same results they would value equally if effected in any other way ; but they know from ...
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William John Conybeare. painted only to mock our longings with vain fancies of a happiness that cannot be realized ? Or are we to suppose , as some do , that the state of things we see around us was the state which Christ designed ; that ...
William John Conybeare. painted only to mock our longings with vain fancies of a happiness that cannot be realized ? Or are we to suppose , as some do , that the state of things we see around us was the state which Christ designed ; that ...
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... happiness to his brethren . While they are proudly striving for superiority , he will meekly yield place and station , rather than make them occasions of envy and hatred . To his superiors he will render the honour that is their due ...
... happiness to his brethren . While they are proudly striving for superiority , he will meekly yield place and station , rather than make them occasions of envy and hatred . To his superiors he will render the honour that is their due ...
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... happiness ? The inward joys of love and holiness , the consolations of the Spirit , the peace which passeth all understanding , — these are elements of felicity omitted in his estimate . The goal of his whole career is wrongly placed ...
... happiness ? The inward joys of love and holiness , the consolations of the Spirit , the peace which passeth all understanding , — these are elements of felicity omitted in his estimate . The goal of his whole career is wrongly placed ...
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Page 136 - So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you? Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
Page 101 - And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead ? He is not here, but is risen...
Page 136 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
Page 3 - And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child : and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Page 9 - And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.
Page 88 - If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Page 173 - Keep, therefore, and do them ; for this is your wisdom and your understanding, in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and an understanding people.
Page 120 - Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
Page 41 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it ? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes...
Page 124 - Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?