The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn

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J. B. Ford, 1873 - Congregational churches - 466 pages

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Page 365 - For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
Page 93 - You desire it from the highest motives; and godliness is profitable in all things, having the promise of the life that now is, as well as that which is to come...
Page 401 - They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.
Page 64 - And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh ; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
Page 90 - Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].
Page 401 - Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of; and with the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be baptized...
Page 62 - I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant ; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan ; and now I am become two bands.
Page 408 - JESUS, I my cross have taken, All to leave, and follow Thee; Naked, poor, despised, forsaken, Thou from hence my All shalt be. Perish, every fond ambition, All I've sought, or hoped, or known; Yet how rich is my condition ! God, and heaven, are still my own.
Page 441 - I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

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