Sermons, Volume 5T.Cadell and W.Davies; F.C. and J.Rivington; Nichols, Son, and Bentley; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; ... [and 11 others in London]: and A.Constable and Company; Manners and Miller; and J.Fairbairn, Edinburgh: and G.Clarke, Aberdeen., 1818 - Sermons - 475 pages |
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... becomes a very material part both of wisdom and of duty to attend to any regulations by which they may be pro- perly conducted . For if expectations and hopes on one hand , and fears and alarms on the other , are suffered to arise with ...
... becomes a very material part both of wisdom and of duty to attend to any regulations by which they may be pro- perly conducted . For if expectations and hopes on one hand , and fears and alarms on the other , are suffered to arise with ...
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... become one who knows that his state is ever in hazard of changing . But I mean to warn those , who , giving way to the elation of giddy hopes , lose the command of themselves , that by this in- toxication of mind they are preparing the ...
... become one who knows that his state is ever in hazard of changing . But I mean to warn those , who , giving way to the elation of giddy hopes , lose the command of themselves , that by this in- toxication of mind they are preparing the ...
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... becomes you to overlook and forbear ; and never to allow small fail- ings to dwell on your attention so much as to deface the whole of an amiable cha- racter . From trifling misunderstandings arising from the most frivolous causes ...
... becomes you to overlook and forbear ; and never to allow small fail- ings to dwell on your attention so much as to deface the whole of an amiable cha- racter . From trifling misunderstandings arising from the most frivolous causes ...
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... become accustomed to bear . Time and continuance reconcile us gra- dually to many things that were at first believed to be unsupportable . Providence has in mercy provided this gentle opiate to assuage various sorrows of human life ...
... become accustomed to bear . Time and continuance reconcile us gra- dually to many things that were at first believed to be unsupportable . Providence has in mercy provided this gentle opiate to assuage various sorrows of human life ...
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... becomes the more profound , that the Great Being who is the object of it , is to us invisible and unknown . We may seek to discover him , but he hides him- self from us ; his footsteps we clearly trace , but his face we can never behold ...
... becomes the more profound , that the Great Being who is the object of it , is to us invisible and unknown . We may seek to discover him , but he hides him- self from us ; his footsteps we clearly trace , but his face we can never behold ...
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Page 210 - God is not a man that he should lie; nor the son of man, that he should repent...
Page 100 - Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.
Page 185 - For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.
Page 149 - My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness ; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips: When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
Page 328 - For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow?
Page 32 - Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name : bring an offering, and come into his courts. O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness : fear before him, all the earth.
Page 248 - For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
Page 353 - For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Page 147 - Nevertheless I am continually with thee: Thou hast holden me by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, And afterward receive me to glory.
Page 79 - Create in me a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within me...