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... means no longer to decline our challenge . He now appears to avow the enmity as openly as we have done ; and has already given us competent effays , how fearful a thing it is to fall into the hands of the living God , Heb . 10. 31 ...
... means no longer to decline our challenge . He now appears to avow the enmity as openly as we have done ; and has already given us competent effays , how fearful a thing it is to fall into the hands of the living God , Heb . 10. 31 ...
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... means of drawing that calamity to our felves . When God fees we will suffer no- thing by way of confent and fympathy with others , ' tis but equal we have our part in a more direct and imme- diate infliction , and feel what we would not ...
... means of drawing that calamity to our felves . When God fees we will suffer no- thing by way of confent and fympathy with others , ' tis but equal we have our part in a more direct and imme- diate infliction , and feel what we would not ...
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... means no longer to continue his refidence among us ; indeed we find in Scrip- . ture that his promife of cohabiting is always limited to thofe who own themselves his people ; and therefore when So many of us have openly renounced that ...
... means no longer to continue his refidence among us ; indeed we find in Scrip- . ture that his promife of cohabiting is always limited to thofe who own themselves his people ; and therefore when So many of us have openly renounced that ...
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... means the laying on a new burden , but the furnishing us with an Engine to bear with ease that weight which otherwise the ftouteft Atlas muft fink under . And were but this one precept fincerely conformed to , it would not only ...
... means the laying on a new burden , but the furnishing us with an Engine to bear with ease that weight which otherwise the ftouteft Atlas muft fink under . And were but this one precept fincerely conformed to , it would not only ...
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... means hurt them , Mar.16 . The moft adverse chances being but like the ploughing and breaking the ground , in order to a more plen- tiful harveft . And yet we are not fo wholly turned off to that reverfion , as to have no fup- plies for ...
... means hurt them , Mar.16 . The moft adverse chances being but like the ploughing and breaking the ground , in order to a more plen- tiful harveft . And yet we are not fo wholly turned off to that reverfion , as to have no fup- plies for ...
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Page 5 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes : but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 405 - Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them; wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
Page 10 - For, we know that if our earthly houfe of this tabernacle were diflblved, we have a building of GOD, an houfe not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Page 236 - Let us fall into the hands of God, and not into the hands of men; for they are severe and cruel judges of each other.•
Page 406 - If there be therefore any confolation in Chrift, if any comfort. of love, if any fellow/hip of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies ; fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like minded, having the fame love, being of one accord, of one mind.
Page 247 - Certainly," says Bishop Fell, " the first propagators of our faith proceeded at another rate ; they well knew, that not the brain but'the heart was the proper soil of that celestial plant, and therefore did not amuse their proselytes with curious questions, but set them to the active part of their religion.