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... I have not compos'd this , or any of my other Works to flatter Mankind , neither to please them , but for their Good to Edification , agreeable to St. Paul's most excellent [ v ] excellent Advice to all Chriftians Rom . [ iv ]
... I have not compos'd this , or any of my other Works to flatter Mankind , neither to please them , but for their Good to Edification , agreeable to St. Paul's most excellent [ v ] excellent Advice to all Chriftians Rom . [ iv ]
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... Please to reflect , and confider impartially and seri- ously , that these four hiftorians had not the least worldly intereft or advantage to be answered by writ- ing , publishing and propagating the gofpel of their despised lord and ...
... Please to reflect , and confider impartially and seri- ously , that these four hiftorians had not the least worldly intereft or advantage to be answered by writ- ing , publishing and propagating the gofpel of their despised lord and ...
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... please their fellow mortals , others to please Almighty God . What a number of profeffing christians is to be found , who are fo narrow fpirited and mean , as to confine their love to little fects and parties ; and from those ...
... please their fellow mortals , others to please Almighty God . What a number of profeffing christians is to be found , who are fo narrow fpirited and mean , as to confine their love to little fects and parties ; and from those ...
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... please his neighbour for his good to edification , " Rom . xv . 2 . 66 But the fashionable way of the world is to please their neighbour , if it is to their hurt ; efpecially if they poffibly can receive the leaft benefit and ad ...
... please his neighbour for his good to edification , " Rom . xv . 2 . 66 But the fashionable way of the world is to please their neighbour , if it is to their hurt ; efpecially if they poffibly can receive the leaft benefit and ad ...
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... please , none making them afraid and all may worship God in that way and manner as their confciences dictates to them is most agreeable to his holy word , without being fo much as interrupted or molested , much lefs perfecuted for it ...
... please , none making them afraid and all may worship God in that way and manner as their confciences dictates to them is most agreeable to his holy word , without being fo much as interrupted or molested , much lefs perfecuted for it ...
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Page 23 - Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth : who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously...
Page 124 - Who will render to every man according to his deeds: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life : But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil...
Page 52 - And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.
Page 117 - Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread ? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Page 118 - Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: For there is no respect of persons with God.
Page 137 - Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Page 126 - The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked : who can know it ? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Page 125 - Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight : but all things are naked and open unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Page 115 - Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him...
Page 52 - And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree...