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... fire ? " ( Isa . xxxiii . 14. ) Guilt can form no other thought of God by looking upon him out of Christ : we can see nothing but majesty armed with wrath and power . But now it is said , that " in Christ we have access with boldness ...
... fire ? " ( Isa . xxxiii . 14. ) Guilt can form no other thought of God by looking upon him out of Christ : we can see nothing but majesty armed with wrath and power . But now it is said , that " in Christ we have access with boldness ...
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... fire like Moses's bush ; burn and not be consumed ; nay , leap in the fire . The counsel of the text is not a paradox , fitted only for notion and discourse , or some strain and reach of fancy ; but an observation , built upon a common ...
... fire like Moses's bush ; burn and not be consumed ; nay , leap in the fire . The counsel of the text is not a paradox , fitted only for notion and discourse , or some strain and reach of fancy ; but an observation , built upon a common ...
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... fire ; so God changeth the dispensation , sometimes in this trouble , sometimes in that . Paul gives a catalogue of his dangers and sufferings . " In perils of waters , in perils of robbers , in perils by mine own countrymen , in perils ...
... fire ; so God changeth the dispensation , sometimes in this trouble , sometimes in that . Paul gives a catalogue of his dangers and sufferings . " In perils of waters , in perils of robbers , in perils by mine own countrymen , in perils ...
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... fire that purgeth the corn , bruiseth the stalk or reed ; and in that fire in which the chaff is burnt , gold sparkleth . So true is that of the Psalmist , " The Lord trieth the right- eous ; but the wicked , and him that loveth ...
... fire that purgeth the corn , bruiseth the stalk or reed ; and in that fire in which the chaff is burnt , gold sparkleth . So true is that of the Psalmist , " The Lord trieth the right- eous ; but the wicked , and him that loveth ...
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... fire , the most devouring element : inno- cency is best tried by iniquity . * But why doth God try us ? Not for his own sake , for he is omniscient ; but either , 1st , For our sakes , that we may know ourselves . In trials we discern ...
... fire , the most devouring element : inno- cency is best tried by iniquity . * But why doth God try us ? Not for his own sake , for he is omniscient ; but either , 1st , For our sakes , that we may know ourselves . In trials we discern ...
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Page 237 - And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
Page 430 - Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Page 145 - Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
Page 313 - Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God ? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world, is the enemy of God.
Page 436 - And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, And they shall hear the earth ; And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil ; And they shall hear Jezreel.
Page 376 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth : and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Page 36 - But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him ; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
Page 53 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Page 354 - See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me : I kill, and I make alive ; I wound and I heal ; neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
Page 419 - Is any sick among you? Let him call for the Elders of the Church ; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the Name of the LORD : and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the LORD shall raise him up ; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.