The Whole Works of the Late Reverend William Romaine ...R. Baynes, 1821 |
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... affections , our tongues , eyes ; and yet all these are but as little rivulets ; the fountain , or rather the sea that feeds them , is our corrupt nature . " 66 66 Bishop Beveridge shall be my other authority ; the title of the fourth ...
... affections , our tongues , eyes ; and yet all these are but as little rivulets ; the fountain , or rather the sea that feeds them , is our corrupt nature . " 66 66 Bishop Beveridge shall be my other authority ; the title of the fourth ...
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... affections cold and languid , and want fresh motives to warm and inflame them : and even they , who have the greatest knowledge of the abundant mercies of God their Creator and Redeemer , and have a grateful sense of them , yet freely ...
... affections cold and languid , and want fresh motives to warm and inflame them : and even they , who have the greatest knowledge of the abundant mercies of God their Creator and Redeemer , and have a grateful sense of them , yet freely ...
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... affections in preference to these infinite and eternal blessings ? Oh ! what low creatures are we , notwithstanding our boasted dignity , and fancied rectitude ? How abjectly base are we , to prefer shadows to substance , and time to ...
... affections in preference to these infinite and eternal blessings ? Oh ! what low creatures are we , notwithstanding our boasted dignity , and fancied rectitude ? How abjectly base are we , to prefer shadows to substance , and time to ...
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... affections kindle , and our love to our most blessed Redeemer is inflamed . Whoso is wise will meditate thus to his profit , and he will so observe , so remark what he hears and reads , as to grow the wiser for hearing , and the better ...
... affections kindle , and our love to our most blessed Redeemer is inflamed . Whoso is wise will meditate thus to his profit , and he will so observe , so remark what he hears and reads , as to grow the wiser for hearing , and the better ...
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... affections ; and give us , O holy Spirit , the hearing ear , to know what it is to be thankful , and the under- standing heart to be able to practise it , that when we finish our present meditations , we may be the better for them , and ...
... affections ; and give us , O holy Spirit , the hearing ear , to know what it is to be thankful , and the under- standing heart to be able to practise it , that when we finish our present meditations , we may be the better for them , and ...
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Page 235 - Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
Page 234 - Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, and caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley ; and, lo, they were very dry. And he said unto me "Son of man, can these bones live?" And I answered, "O Lord God, thou knowest.
Page 55 - And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation. Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men ! For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
Page 119 - 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 84 - Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses. He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
Page 192 - The condition of man, after the fall of Adam, is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith, and calling upon God : wherefore we have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.
Page 174 - Original sin standeth not in the following of Adam — as the Pelagians do vainly talk — but it is the fault and corruption of the nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam ; whereby man is very far gone from original righteousness, and is of his own nature inclined to evil, so that the Flesh lusteth always contrary to the Spirit; and therefore, in every person born into this world, it deserveth God's wrath and damnation.
Page 195 - Albeit that Good Works, which are the fruits of Faith, and follow after Justification, cannot put away our sins, and endure the severity of God's judgment; yet are they pleasing and acceptable to God in Christ, and do spring out necessarily of a true and lively Faith; insomuch that by them a lively Faith may be as evidently known as a tree discerned by the fruit.
Page 213 - And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the Lord's and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
Page 183 - THEY also are to be had accursed, that presume to say, that every man shall be saved by the law or sect which he professeth, so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that law, and the light of nature. For holy Scripture doth set out unto us only the name of Jesus Christ, whereby men must be saved.