For the Oracles of God, Four Orations: For Judgment to Come, an Argument, in Nine Parts

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A. Sherman, 1824 - God - 407 pages

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Page 16 - upon me, but I will not answer, they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me." From this cheap estimation and wanton neglect of God's counsel, and from the terror of this curse consequent thereon, we have resolved, in the strength of God, to do our endeavour to deliver this congregation of his intelligent and worshipping
Page 262 - in prison, and ye visited me not. Then shall they also answer him sayine^, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, or athirst, or a. stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them,
Page 238 - regions of thick-ribbed ice— To be imprisoned in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world; or to be worse than worst Of those that lawless and uncertain thoughts Imagine howling!
Page 312 - In all the passages where Christ speaks of the two states of retribution, it is always with the strongest possible assurance of their eternity. His words are, < everlasting punishment, everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels;' ' into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched, where their worm dieth not, and their fire is not quenched.
Page 262 - you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment; the righteous into life eternal.
Page 309 - Caught in a fiery tempest shall be hurled Each on his rock transfixed, the sport and prey Of racking whirlwinds; or for ever sunk Under yon boiling ocean, wrapt in chains, There to converse with everlasting groans, Unrespited, unpitied, unreprieved, Ages of hopeless end.
Page 262 - hungered, or athirst, or a. stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them, ing, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as
Page 150 - I was by him as one brought up» with him, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him.
Page 131 - in the ears of God. If we did not commit the sins which daily and hourly, either in deed, word, or thought, we do commit, yet in the good things which we do, how many defects are there intermingled! God, in that which is done, respecteth the mind, and the intention of the doer. Cut
Page 357 - closes with present existence; but the spiritual life, which consults for the honour and glory of God and his Church, will stand in judgment, and receive the reward of its self-denial and faithfulness. " To be carnally minded is death; to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

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