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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... friends , be assured that some trial awaits you . For human life never stands still for any long time . It is by no means a fixed and steady objects like the mountain or the rock which you always find in the same situation ; it is a ...
... friends , be assured that some trial awaits you . For human life never stands still for any long time . It is by no means a fixed and steady objects like the mountain or the rock which you always find in the same situation ; it is a ...
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... friendship and domestic life , there is still more reason for due moderation in our expectations and hopes . For the nearer that men approach to each other , the more numerous the points of contact are in which they touch , the greater ...
... friendship and domestic life , there is still more reason for due moderation in our expectations and hopes . For the nearer that men approach to each other , the more numerous the points of contact are in which they touch , the greater ...
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... friend or a partner of your life , in whose temper there is not to be found the least inequality , who upon no occasion is to be hurt or offended by any frailties you dis- cover , whose feelings are to harmonize in every trifle with ...
... friend or a partner of your life , in whose temper there is not to be found the least inequality , who upon no occasion is to be hurt or offended by any frailties you dis- cover , whose feelings are to harmonize in every trifle with ...
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... friends , that the inequality of real happiness is not to be measured by the inequality of outward estate . When you see the peasant cheerful in his cottage , and the labourer singing in the fields , you may discern that there is some ...
... friends , that the inequality of real happiness is not to be measured by the inequality of outward estate . When you see the peasant cheerful in his cottage , and the labourer singing in the fields , you may discern that there is some ...
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Hugh Blair. SERMON and benevolence conciliate love and create I. - warm friendship . The best character may indeed for ... friends and well - wishers , and to have few enemies . The more he is known , the more will the favour of those who ...
Hugh Blair. SERMON and benevolence conciliate love and create I. - warm friendship . The best character may indeed for ... friends and well - wishers , and to have few enemies . The more he is known , the more will the favour of those who ...
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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...