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... divine . 3. And as though this were not enough , we have a suffering world to aid . It has pleased God to make his creatures the instruments of his goodness , to employ whatsoever his hands have formed in diffus- ing his benefits . The ...
... divine . 3. And as though this were not enough , we have a suffering world to aid . It has pleased God to make his creatures the instruments of his goodness , to employ whatsoever his hands have formed in diffus- ing his benefits . The ...
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... divine strength . How soon , when the light either of provi- dence or of grace shines on our path , do we begin to think that we ourselves have caused it to shine ! We forget that all our " fresh springs " are in God . Our own righteous ...
... divine strength . How soon , when the light either of provi- dence or of grace shines on our path , do we begin to think that we ourselves have caused it to shine ! We forget that all our " fresh springs " are in God . Our own righteous ...
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... divine glory is an object of desire to the spiritual mind . We may consider , first , the circum- tances which led to the petition in the text ; econdly , the petition itself ; and , thirdly , he reasons why every one of ourselves hould ...
... divine glory is an object of desire to the spiritual mind . We may consider , first , the circum- tances which led to the petition in the text ; econdly , the petition itself ; and , thirdly , he reasons why every one of ourselves hould ...
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... divine perfections , a greater knowledge of God , a closer and more enlarged view of those attributes which constitute his glory . 1. Hence we are taught by this petition , that there is more glory in the perfections of God , than his ...
... divine perfections , a greater knowledge of God , a closer and more enlarged view of those attributes which constitute his glory . 1. Hence we are taught by this petition , that there is more glory in the perfections of God , than his ...
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... divine glory . The testimony of Saint Paul on this point is exceedingly strong . " The natural man , " he says , " receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God , for they are foolishness unto him ; neither can he know them , because ...
... divine glory . The testimony of Saint Paul on this point is exceedingly strong . " The natural man , " he says , " receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God , for they are foolishness unto him ; neither can he know them , because ...
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Page 13 - Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. Blessed are those servants whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching...
Page 203 - Behold my servant, whom I uphold ; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth ; I have put my spirit upon him : he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
Page 230 - And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth. Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, and transgression, and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty...
Page 43 - Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none : cut it down ; why cumbereth it the ground? And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: and if it bear fruit, well : and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
Page 217 - And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment, that ye may approve things that are excellent, that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ, being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Page 156 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Page 132 - I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat: and if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.
Page 117 - The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the 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?
Page 53 - Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, and said, Where have ye laid him?
Page 31 - But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.