Discourses on Various Subjects, Volume 1J. Phillips and sold by T. Cadell, 1779 - Sermons, American |
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Page 12
... true holinefs . " Now a state of poverty , a ftate in which we are destitute of this world's goods , feems to be most favourable to this bleffed change . For though an humble mind does not always dwell beneath an hum- ble roof ; though ...
... true holinefs . " Now a state of poverty , a ftate in which we are destitute of this world's goods , feems to be most favourable to this bleffed change . For though an humble mind does not always dwell beneath an hum- ble roof ; though ...
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... True it is , you have temptations peculiar to your state and circumstances ; but perhaps they are much weaker than those to which men are expofed by affluence or gran- deur . Of these , however , beware ! if they are indulged , they ...
... True it is , you have temptations peculiar to your state and circumstances ; but perhaps they are much weaker than those to which men are expofed by affluence or gran- deur . Of these , however , beware ! if they are indulged , they ...
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... true felicity , are to be executed . Though it should feem from the text , as well as from the enumeration of particulars in the fucceeding verses , that these times and seasons , " as well as the purposes to which they are adapt- ed ...
... true felicity , are to be executed . Though it should feem from the text , as well as from the enumeration of particulars in the fucceeding verses , that these times and seasons , " as well as the purposes to which they are adapt- ed ...
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... True Reli- gion . It meets us in every thing we hear or fee . Times and seasons are never wanting . When we rife from our beds in the morning , the sweet ferenity , which nature ufually wears , one would think , must neceffarily com ...
... True Reli- gion . It meets us in every thing we hear or fee . Times and seasons are never wanting . When we rife from our beds in the morning , the sweet ferenity , which nature ufually wears , one would think , must neceffarily com ...
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... true children of faithful Abraham , wait for the spiritual accomplishment of this prophecy in their hearts ; and fee and feel " the ftrong Hand " of their REDEEMER , REDEEMER , in that inward oppofition which he raises in DISCOURSE III ...
... true children of faithful Abraham , wait for the spiritual accomplishment of this prophecy in their hearts ; and fee and feel " the ftrong Hand " of their REDEEMER , REDEEMER , in that inward oppofition which he raises in DISCOURSE III ...
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Page 143 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : thou takest away- their breath, they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created : and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Page 99 - But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Page 77 - Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
Page 354 - Almighty God, with whom do live the spirits of those who depart hence in the Lord, and with whom the souls of the faithful, after they are delivered from the burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity...
Page 43 - Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him : behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd : he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
Page 189 - But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men, and needed not that any should testify of man : for he knew what was in man.
Page 365 - As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
Page 349 - Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you and ye shall live.
Page 63 - Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ ; and to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ...
Page 99 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass; for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.