Helps to Composition, Or, Six Hundred Skeletons of Sermons: Several Being the Substance of Sermons Preached Before the University, Volume 4William W. Woodward, 1810 - Sermons |
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... wish it , to speak smooth things to them , and to prophesy deceits ? Should they be intent on feeding them- selves rather than the flock ; and be more studious to esta- blish a reputation as preachers , than to save the souls commit ...
... wish it , to speak smooth things to them , and to prophesy deceits ? Should they be intent on feeding them- selves rather than the flock ; and be more studious to esta- blish a reputation as preachers , than to save the souls commit ...
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... wishes - But we shall not presume ever to arraign his ways - His express command , and the example of his most eminent saints , should regulate our conduct " -This is repeat- edly taught us under the very image which we are now consi ...
... wishes - But we shall not presume ever to arraign his ways - His express command , and the example of his most eminent saints , should regulate our conduct " -This is repeat- edly taught us under the very image which we are now consi ...
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... wish . Let us begin with our example : this speaks the most forcibly , and the most exten- sively . Let us , by giving up ourselves to God , shew others what they ought to do : and let our light so shine before men , that they may be ...
... wish . Let us begin with our example : this speaks the most forcibly , and the most exten- sively . Let us , by giving up ourselves to God , shew others what they ought to do : and let our light so shine before men , that they may be ...
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... wish for utter annihilation - We say not that every sinner feels such anguish of soul ( for many are past feeling , having seared their consciences as with an hot iron " ) but we are sure that they would do so if they knew their state ...
... wish for utter annihilation - We say not that every sinner feels such anguish of soul ( for many are past feeling , having seared their consciences as with an hot iron " ) but we are sure that they would do so if they knew their state ...
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... wish to be caressed by religious persons , and to be held . in reputation for their sanctity and zeal - They do not merely , as even sincere Christian's too often do , feel a mixture of prin- ciple within them , which they mourn over ...
... wish to be caressed by religious persons , and to be held . in reputation for their sanctity and zeal - They do not merely , as even sincere Christian's too often do , feel a mixture of prin- ciple within them , which they mourn over ...
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Page 115 - We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
Page 115 - Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, "Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment." But I say unto you that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whosoever shall say to his brother, "Raca," shall be in danger of the council.
Page 277 - Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess ; but be filled with the spirit...
Page 238 - And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; 31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
Page 404 - Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ...
Page 455 - The Lord did not set His love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: but because the Lord loved you...
Page 160 - For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called : but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
Page 446 - The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: 10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government.
Page 321 - Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me : for that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord : they would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Page 128 - God;) being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood...